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  2. Potoo - Wikipedia

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    The eyes are large, even larger than those of nightjars. As in many species of nocturnal birds , they reflect the light of flashlights. [ 14 ] Their eyes, which could be conspicuous to potential predators during the day, have unusual slits in the lids , [ 15 ] which allow potoos to sense movement even when their eyes are closed.

  3. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Eyes were often painted to ward off the evil eye. An exaggerated apotropaic eye or a pair of eyes were painted on Greek drinking vessels called kylikes from the 6th century BCE up until the end of the end of the classical period. The exaggerated eyes may have been intended to prevent evil spirits from entering the mouth while drinking.

  4. Manga iconography - Wikipedia

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    The character's eye shapes and sizes are sometimes symbolically used to represent the character. For instance, bigger eyes will usually symbolize beauty, innocence, or purity, while smaller, more narrow eyes typically represent coldness and/or evil. Completely blackened eyes (shadowed) indicates a vengeful personality or underlying deep anger.

  5. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    While some ghost characters are scary, others are funny or deliver a morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. Literature and theater: Ghosts in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy; Ghost characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet; Ghosts in Richard III; The shade of Hamlet's murdered father in Hamlet

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  7. Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    Dead Eye Tyrant who came back as a ghost. Doomsphere Ghost-like undead beholder is created by magical explosions. Director Directors resemble beholders, but their central eye is smaller. They possess only six small eyes on retractable eye stalks these eyes have Magic Missile, Burning Hands, Wall of Ice, Slow, Enervation, Improved Phantasmal Force.

  8. Krasue - Wikipedia

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    The organs below the head usually include the heart and the stomach with a length of intestine, [5] the intestinal tract emphasizing the ghost's voracious nature. In the Thai film Krasue Valentine, this ghost is represented with more internal organs, such as lungs and liver, but much reduced in size and anatomically out of proportion with the ...

  9. Pocong - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a 'fresh' pocong is described as having a pale face and wide open eyes. Multiple sources mention a pocong with dark face and glowing red eyes, a decayed pocong with white featureless eye, and a flat-faced pocong with empty eye sockets. Pocong also hop like rabbits due to the knot under their feet rendering the ghosts unable to walk.