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  2. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for symposia. [6] Delos seems to have been a center of chicken breeding. "About 3200 BC chickens were common in Sindh. After the attacks of the Aria people, these fowls spread from Sindh to ...

  3. List of urban legends - Wikipedia

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    An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

  4. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal; Sarimanok, a legendary chicken of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao (Philippines) Víðópnir, a rooster that sits atop Yggdrasil in Norse ...

  5. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  6. Cockfighting - Wikipedia

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    Based on the recognition of animal rights in the Constitution, a Brazilian Supreme Court ruling resulted in the ban of animal related activities that involve claimed "animal suffering such as cockfighting, and a tradition practiced in southern Brazil, known as 'Farra do Boi' (the Oxen Festival)", [39] stating that "animals also have the right ...

  7. The Surprising Origins of 'Break a Leg'—and Why Performers ...

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    Some theater history buffs think "break a leg" might be a cousin of the German phrase "Hals- und Beinbruch," which means "neck and leg break." Others connect it to the Hebrew blessing "hatzlakha u ...

  8. Cockatrice - Wikipedia

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    It was repeated in the late-medieval bestiaries that the weasel is the only animal that is immune to the glance of a cockatrice. [7] It was also thought that a cockatrice would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow, [8] and according to legend, having a cockatrice look at itself in a mirror is one of the few sure-fire ways to kill it. [9]

  9. Kristi Noem, a Trump VP contender, defends killing dog on ...

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    Noem said the dog ruined a hunt and later attacked chickens owned by a local family, behaved like a "t. ... "We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we ...