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  2. Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia

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    On being confronted with the spectre, tradition prescribes two remedies. The first is to turn one's cap or coat inside out. This has the effect of stopping the faeu boulanger in its tracks. The other solution is to stick a knife into the ground, blade up. The faeu, in an attempt to kill itself, will attack the blade. [44]

  3. Races and creatures in His Dark Materials - Wikipedia

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    Spectres of Indifference, commonly shorted to Spectres are beings of spirit escaped from the void between universes. Most commonly, a Spectre is created from each new window between worlds opened by the Subtle Knife. They appear in the second and third volumes of the trilogy The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Before such openings, there ...

  4. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    Hesitant, Joshua Ben Levi gives back the knife in exchange for the Angel of Death's name. To never forget the name, he carved Troke into his arm, the Angel of Death's chosen name. When the knife was returned to the Angel, Joshua's carving of the name faded, and he forgot. (Ket. 77b; Jellinek, l.c. ii. 48–51; Bacher, l.c. i. 192 et seq.).

  5. List of James Bond gadgets - Wikipedia

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    A shoe with a concealed poisoned blade tip. Worn by SPECTRE agents, including Rosa Klebb and Morzeny. [11] [3] Dagger shoes were used in other non-James Bond films and animation such as Trigun, The Punisher and The Dark Knight. [3] [12] Garrote watch A wristwatch from which a wire garrote can be drawn. Preferred weapon by SPECTRE assassin ...

  6. List of James Bond villains - Wikipedia

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    Bond throws a hunting knife into his back. Spectre: Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Christoph Waltz: Gain control of a global surveillance program called "Nine Eyes". Bond destroys Blofeld's data center and Q prevents the Nine Eyes program from being activated. Arrested by M after he survives his escape helicopter being shot down by Bond.

  7. Should you throw out your black plastic cooking utensils? - AOL

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    New details about a study that warned against black plastic spatulas and other kitchen tools have come out. (Getty Creative) (Анатолий Тушенцов via Getty Images)

  8. Yuki-onna - Wikipedia

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    Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. Yuki-onna originates from folklores of olden times; in the Muromachi period Sōgi Shokoku Monogatari by the renga poet Sōgi, there is a statement on how he saw a yuki-onna when he was staying in Echigo Province (now Niigata Prefecture), indicating that the legends already existed in the Muromachi period.

  9. Luigi Mangione was charged with murder - then donations ...

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    By Joseph Ax, Rich McKay and Brad Brooks. NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand ...