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V. Malyshev. Vodyanoy, 1910. His usual appearance is that of a naked old man with a fat paunch of a belly and swollen face according to the Russian folklore collector, [5] but a later English commentary using similar phraseology insisted the creature was not nude but bald, and concatenates additional commentary from the Russian source which says he is seen naked but covered in slime ...
The British horror film The Wicker Man (1973) brought the wicker man into contemporary popular culture. In the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, a wicker man (without human or animal sacrifices) has been burned at some neopagan ceremonies and festivals such as Burning Man. [7] It has also been referenced in music and art.
De heretico comburendo is a Latin phrase meaning "Regarding the burning of heretics". An alternate spelling is De haeretico comburendo, reflecting the proper ancient and Middle Ages spelling (by the second century the diphthong ae had been changed in pronunciation from to ; most texts today use the spelling without the letter a).
Political scientist Darius Rejali argues that "The point of [The Centurions] is that failing to torture is the sissy's response; only a real man knows what to do." [ 9 ] The Battle of Algiers misrepresents the history of the battle in order to imply that selective French use of torture against insurgents caused its victory (in fact, the torture ...
Man is classified into these four categories, based on which temperament is most dominant in him. There is the Sanguine complexion, the best of the four. "The Sanguine man's anger is easily roused but shortlived; he is a trifle peppery, but not sullen or vindictive." [24] Second, there is the Choleric man. "Like the Sanguine, he is easily moved ...
FNV may refer to: Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (Dutch: Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging ), a national trade union centre in the Netherlands Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function , a non-cryptographic hash function
Despite being based on a 17th-century folk song, the idiom of "man's inhumanity to man" is a distinctly neoclassical rhetorical expression, according to scholar David Daiches, who cites the poem as one of Burns's English works that "use a Scots literary form but are otherwise English in inspiration". [5] "Man Was Made to Mourn" is one of Burns ...
Saint Dominic anachronistically presiding over an auto de fe, by Pedro Berruguete (around 1495) [1]. An auto-da-fé (/ ˌ ɔː t oʊ d ə ˈ f eɪ, ˌ aʊ t-/ AW-toh-də-FAY, OW-; from Portuguese auto da fé or Spanish auto de fe ([ˈawto ðe ˈfe], meaning 'act of faith') was the ritual of public penance, carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries, of condemned heretics and apostates ...