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...ed Mushrooms ... the Dance of Death ... Snake Handlers ... Sin Eaters ... Demonic Possession ... the Antichrist ... Golems ... the Temple of Rats ... Stoning the Devil ... Weeping Statues ... the Wandering Jew ... Incorruptible Bodies ... Ritual Crucifixions ... Ghouls ... Pillar Saints ... Prayer Wheels ... the Black Stone of Mecca ... Temple Virgins ... Towers of Silence...

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...ious Police Spirit Money Idol Worship The Antichrist Ghouls Monuments Built by a God Chosen People Sacred Cows The Wandering Jew The Thugee Stoning the Devil Original Sin Prayer Wheels Faith Healing The Cedar Tree of the End Naturist Religious Sects The Australian Fertility Stone Strange Mayan Creation Myth Sin Eaters The Dance of Death Holy Laughter C...

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...nd the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them....

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..., were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them. The wonder was, that t...

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...T COMMANDMENT 196. WITHOUT FORM refers to strangulation. CHAOTIC refers to stoning, i.e., the stones that fall into the great deep to punish the sinn... ... has the power to control man at its will: to stone, burn, or behead him. Stoning means that impure thoughts befall his head with desired pleasures, ... ...kinds of spiritual death: WITHOUT FORM means strangulation, CHAOTIC means stoning, DARKNESS means burning, and SPIRIT means beheading. The Mitzva of...

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...ings of Indian brides whose families deliver an insufficient dowry, fatal stonings of suspected adulterers in Pakistan, deliberate underfeeding of bo...

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... her case, otherwise she might have to suffer public whipping or death by stoning as an adulterer. Another law required death by stoning for one who ...

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...rimands?" David perceived lashings or even more severe punishments such as stoning and hangings. "Calm yourself boy." Brendan was ahead of him. "You'...

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...so,” Edward said, glancing at his wife, who added. “They should bring back stoning for what she does.” Karen looked Anne up and down. Stella was led ...

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...rld of consequences. If you really want to influence the shooting and the stoning and how your enemies relate to you, you should rise upwards, to yo...

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...eudal tradition—not Pakistani law. Killing daughters or sisters, often by stoning them to death, when the male family members think they have been d... ...s used in Russia, China, Somalia, Taiwan, Vietnam and some other states; stoning is used in Iran and Afghanistan; and knifing is used in Somalia. Bu...

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...then sent, who fall upon him suddenly, and put him to death with a club, or by stoning him. The King is next acquainted with it, whose presence at the...

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...s the back way,’ Durdles answers, ‘and we’ll drop him there.’ So they go on; Deputy, as a rear rank one, taking open order, and invading the silence o... ... who, as if attracted by some carrion-scent of Deputy in the air, start into the moonlight, as vultures might gather in the desert, 49 Charles Dicken... ... strong check upon himself, ‘and let my eyes be rid of the sight of you!’ Deputy, with another sharp whistle, at once expressing his relief, and his c... ... didn’t see it. He was getting very cold indeed when he came upon a fragment of burial-ground in which an unhappy sheep was grazing. Unhappy, because ... ... that the Arching leads to a mews. Mewses must exist. Respecting attendance; two is kep’, at liberal wages. Words has arisen as to tradesmen, but dirt... ...ooks about him, as though, the enchanted hour when Mr. Durdles may be stoned home having struck, he had some expectation of seeing the Imp who is appo... ...o the mission of stoning him. In effect, that Power of Evil is abroad. Having nothing living to stone at the moment, he is discovered by Mr. Datchery ...

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...unter in the broad Cries ‘come up hither,’ as a prophet to us? Is there no stoning save with flint and rock? Y es, as the dead we weep for testify— No...

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... not a saint but has evil thoughts. It was blindness to that which set men stoning the woman taken in adultery. They forgot what they were made of. Th...

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...ready been graded and selected. It was Harran’s intention to commence blue-stoning his seed that day, a delicate and important process which pre- vent... ...ll telephone Phelps to send the wagon right down for these. I started blue-stoning to-day.” Magnus nodded a grave approval. “That was shrewd, boy. As ... ... and he was anxious to get back to the ranch house to super- vise the blue-stoning of his seed. “By the way, Governor,” he demanded suddenly, “how is ...

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...A general, steady advance; Fanny really quite chipper and jolly—self on the rapid mend, and with my eye on forests that are to fall—and my finger on t...

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... and its surroundings. My boys were experts in all sorts of things, from the stoning up of a well to the constructing of a mathematical instrument. A...

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...as much for this reason as at the persuasion of the landlord they left off stoning him, and he allowed them to carry off the wounded, and with the sam...

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...as much for this reason as at the persuasion of the landlord they left off stoning him, and he allowed them to carry off the wounded, and with the sam...

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...the Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for ...

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...ertain Jews from Antioch, and Iconium: and persuading the mul- titude, and stoning Paul, drew him out of the city, thinking him to be dead. 19 But as ...

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.......................................... 73 THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN ........................................................... ... for saying these things, and, when he remonstrated with them for stupidly stoning one who had done nothing to them but good works, replied “For a goo... ...muel Butler’s novel, The Way of All Flesh. THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN Take, for example, the miracles. Of Jesus alone of all t... ...nti-Christian, enters on the scene, holding the clothes of the men who are stoning Stephen. He persecutes the Christians with great vigor, a sport whi... ...tive called The Acts of the Apostles, which we left at the point where the stoning of Stephen was followed by the introduction of Paul. The au- thor o... ...of conscience to refrain from crying “Serve him right” when we read of the stoning of Stephen; and nobody has ever cared twopence about the martyrdom ...

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...ed venge persists after the passion it satisfies has died out of the race. Stoning a woman to death in the east because she has ventured to marry agai... ...be more merciful than allowing her to be mobbed to death; but the official stoning or burning of an adulteress in the west would be an atrocity becaus...

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...the Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for ...

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...that very day When in the tempest of my soul I craved Death, even death by stoning, none appeared To further that wild longing, but anon, When time ha...

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... and pretend to go by THAT street (point- ing it out); and whilst they are stoning you, out go the co- horts by this and this. My streets are right, a...

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...iling in water, breaking on the rack, smothering, beheading, crucify- ing, stoning, strangling and electrocuting. Until the middle of the last century...

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... a good thing out of the Association for my own pocket, and by mobbing and stoning me twice. I now help them only when they show some disposition to h...

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...- lent spirits, and after employing all the children, dur- ing the day, in stoning the plums, and all that, insists, regularly every year, on uncle Ge...

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...ight of him at a distance and tried to dodge out of the way he would start stoning me into a shelter I knew of and then sit outside with a heap of sto...

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...gh,—but every thrown stone—must fall! Condemned of thyself, and to thine own stoning: O Zarathustra, far indeed threwest thou thy stone—but upon thyse...

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...- lent spirits, and after employing all the children, dur- ing the day, in stoning the plums, and all that, insists, regularly every year, on uncle Ge... ..., were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them. The wonder was, that t...

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... which his friend inferred that if the course of events really came to any stoning and trampling, Monsieur Lagnier would so distinguish him with his n...

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...ar’s banishment and 100 stripes; and in the case of a mar- ried woman, for stoning. 5 What took place in the times of ignorance, previous to the reve...

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...ants thereof, because of their wickedness in casting out the prophets, and stoning those whom I did send to declare unto them concerning their wickedn...

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... which his friend inferred that if the course of events really came to any stoning and trampling, Monsieur Lagnier would so distinguish him with his n...