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Unlike the graveyard, exile is "the place where cards go when they're really dead and can't be replayed back into the game". [ 30 ] Command : In the Commander format, each player's commander is put here at the start of the game and returns when it leaves the battlefield.
Impalement was, on occasion, aggravated with being set over a fire, the impaling stake acting as a spit, so that the impaled victim might be roasted alive. [99] Among other severities, Ali Pasha , an Albanian -born Ottoman noble who ruled Ioannina , had rebels, criminals, and even the descendants of those who had wronged him or his family in ...
In 3rd and 3.5 editions, Enchantment is divided into two subschools: compulsion and charm. Charm spells usually making them act more favorably toward the caster. Compulsion spells can force the targets' to act in a certain way or avoid certain actions, affect the targets' emotions or affect the targets' minds in other ways.
The idea that the vampire "can only be slain with a stake driven through its heart" has been pervasive in European fiction. Examples such as Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Dracula often being compared to Vlad the Impaler who killed his enemies and impaled them on wooden spikes) [1] [2] and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer both incorporate that idea.
No armor could stop it, and it would grant its wielder command over the powers of wind. Mac an Luin, the Son of the Waves, sword of Fionn mac Cumhaill. Móralltach (also Morallta) or "Great Fierce One", a sword given to Diarmuid Ua Duibhne by his father Aengus, which left no stroke or blow unfinished at the first trial.
An incantation, spell, charm, enchantment, or bewitchery is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung, or chanted . An incantation can also be performed during ceremonial rituals or prayers .
The impalement arts can be divided into distinct disciplines. While some performers specialise purely in one of the disciplines, others combine disciplines or even mix impalement arts into other types of performance. Knife throwing is the most common and well-known discipline within the impalement arts. It includes the throwing of axes ...
An example of the use of shiny apotropaic objects in Judaism can be found in the so-called "Halsgezeige" or textile neckbands used in the birthing customs of the Franco-German border region. Shiny coins or colourful stones would be sewn onto the neckband or on a central amulet in order to distract the evil eye .