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  2. Flying ointment - Wikipedia

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    The ointment is known by a wide variety of names, including witches' flying ointment, green ointment, magic salve, or lycanthropic ointment. In German it was Hexensalbe (lit. ' witch salve ') or Flugsalbe (lit. ' flying salve '). Latin names included unguentum sabbati lit. ' sabbath unguent '), unguentum pharelis, unguentum populi (lit.

  3. Boar's tusk helmet - Wikipedia

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    A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer's Iliad, as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword, and put a cleverly made leather helmet on his head. On the inside there was a strong lining on interwoven straps, onto which a felt cap had ...

  4. Amulet (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Amulet is a children's fantasy, adventure, graphic novel series written and illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi [1] and published by Scholastic Corporation.Beginning in 2008 with The Stonekeeper, the series was published by Scholastic under their Graphix imprint.

  5. The Devil's Chair (urban legend) - Wikipedia

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    The Devil's Chair or Baird Chair as it is officially named in the Highland Park Cemetery of Kirksville, Missouri was first placed in the cemetery by Charles Grassle and David Baird when David's wife, Anna Maria (Hoye) Baird, died in 1911. It has become involved in "numerous legends of a type widely replicated across the U.S., especially in ...

  6. Greek helmet - Wikipedia

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    Greek helmet may refer to any of the following: Attic helmet; Boar's tusk helmet; Boeotian helmet; Chalcidian helmet; Corinthian helmet; Galea (helmet) Illyrian type ...

  7. Powder of sympathy - Wikipedia

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    The powder is said to have consisted of green vitriol, first dissolved in water and afterward recrystallized or calcined in the sun.The Duke of Buckingham testified that Kenelm Digby had healed his secretary of a gangrenous wound by simply soaking the bloody bandage in a solution of the powder (possibly due to the oligodynamic effect).

  8. Lobster-tailed pot helmet - Wikipedia

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    Lobster-tailed pot helmet. This example has a single sliding nasal bar and fixed peak to protect the face, Dutch mid-17th century. Lobster-tailed pot helmet, also known as the zischägge, horseman's pot and harquebusier's pot, was a type of combat helmet. It was derived from an Ottoman Turkish helmet type. From c. 1600, it became popular in ...

  9. Ant (chair) - Wikipedia

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    The Ant was named for its approximate similarity to the outline of an ant with its head raised. [3] [4] [5] The chair was designed to be light, stable, easy to stack up, and to minimise tangling the user's feet.