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In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that visit loved ones and cause mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive.

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The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history.

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A jinx (also jynx), in popular superstition and folklore, is a curse or the attribute of attracting bad or negative luck.

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The vampires conform remarkably to their stereotypes in fiction and folklore: they are blood-sucking, pale-skinned, and nocturnal, though otherwise indistinguishable from normal humans.

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A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.

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Folklore of the United States encompasses the myths, legends, tall tales, oral traditions, music, customs, and cultural expressions that have developed within the United States over centuries.

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The chupacabra or chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally meaning 'goat-sucker', from Spanish: chupa, 'sucks', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature, or cryptid, in the folklore of parts of the Americas.

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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; 'the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Hispanic American folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children she drowned in the river.

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One of the most famous cryptids, Bigfoot appears in both American and Canadian folklore, and since the mid-20th century has become a cultural icon, permeating popular culture and becoming the subject of its own distinct subculture.

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Urban Legend is a 1998 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, and Michael Rosenbaum, and is the first installment in the Urban Legend film series.

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Lost cities generally fall into two broad categories: those where all knowledge of the city's existence was forgotten before it was rediscovered, and those whose memory was preserved in myth, legend, or historical records but whose location was lost or at least no longer widely recognized..

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It is referred to as the only Polish academic forum for this discipline.

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Some events invite overt audience participation and others allow only modest clapping and criticism..

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The supernatural is featured in religious and folkloric contexts, but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal..

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The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century..

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The cryptid was first described in print by known hoaxer, Gray Barker in a 1976 newsletter, which characterized it as a thin, plant-like creature with yellow eyes, pointed ears, and fingers ending in needle-like suction cups..

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The first written mentions of Păcală are found in early-to-mid 19th-century Saxon and other German collections of Romanian tales, which identify him as distinct from Eulenspiegel..

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Like Odin's head of Mimir in Norse paganism, it was reputed to be able to correctly answer any question put to it, although it was sometimes restricted to "yes" or "no" answers..

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The premise sets up the plot, the characters take part in events, while the setting is not only part of, but also influences, the final story..

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It is a "game" reportedly consisting of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators over a 50-day period, which are initially innocuous and then introduce elements of self-harm, with the final challenge requiring the player to kill themselves.

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Centwine was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey, which dominated the town for the next 700 years and was one of the most important abbeys in England..

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The history of Melbourne details the city's growth from a fledgling settlement into a modern commercial and financial centre as Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, in the state of Victoria..

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Methods of burial may be heavily ritualized and can include natural burial (sometimes called "green burial"); embalming or mummification; and the use of containers for the dead, such as shrouds, coffins, grave liners, and burial vaults, all of which can slow decomposition of the body..

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The cultural depiction of cats and their relationship to humans is old and stretches back over 9,500 years..

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In 1995, it was the focus of a major outbreak of mass hysteria or panic which spread from Pemba to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, and across to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the East African coast.

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The Kojiki, or "Record of Ancient Matters," is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends, and history..

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Cai's improvements to paper-making are considered to have had an enormous impact on human history, and of those who created China's Four Great Inventions—the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing—Cai is the only early figure whose name is known..

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Elements of Celtic mythology are recorded in early Irish and early Welsh literature.

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It was first noted by folklorist Carlos Drake in 1968 in texts collected by Indiana University students..

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Its unique maqamat are widely employed by composers and musicians throughout the Arabian Peninsula..

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The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rigveda, a collection of 1,028 hymns composed between 1500 and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes migrating east from the mountains of what is today northern Afghanistan across northern Pakistan and into northwestern India.

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However, political narrative is not only a theoretical concept, it is also a tool employed by political figures in order to construct the perspectives of people within their environment and alter relationships between social groups and individuals..

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Because of this, popular culture is something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across different contexts.

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Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales (including in present-day France, Italy, and German-speaking regions), with parallels in ancient oral narratives and motifs; it was first recorded in literary form in French by Charles Perrault, and later retold in the 19th-century by the Brothers Grimm..

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The first literary Western version of the story was the Italian tale La Gatta Cenerentola—originally titled La Gatta Cennerentola—written by Giambattista Basile in the Neapolitan language and published posthumously in his Pentamerone in 1634..

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African-American folktales refer to the storytelling and oral history practices of enslaved African Americans from the 1700s through the 1900s and African Americans descendants.

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The churel is mostly described as extremely ugly and hideous but is able to shape-shift and disguise herself as a beautiful woman to lure men into the woods or mountains where she either kills them or sucks up their life-force or virility, turning them into old men..

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Heyer's first romance novel, The Black Moth (1921), was set in 1751.

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The Christmas tree originated as a custom of the Lutheran Churches and only in 1982 did the Catholic Church erect the first Vatican Christmas Tree..

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In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act..

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Tashkent ( ), also known as Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years..

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Recognized as one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, Kathmandu's history dates back to the 2nd century AD..

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The early Middle Ages preserves only a small number of legends in writing, mostly from England, including the only surviving early medieval heroic epic in the vernacular, Beowulf..

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Notable examples are the 1001 Nights and The Decameron.

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Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined.

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The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings..

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4 million, making it the twelfth-largest city in the European Union..

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33 million, making it the 19th largest city in India..

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Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country by area, ninth-most densely populated, and 166th most populated.

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The Kazakhs are the second-largest Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia and were previously the most influential of the various Central Asian ethnic groups..

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This would include areas where Spanish, Portuguese, and various other Romance languages, which can trace their origin to the Vulgar Latin spoken in the late Roman Empire, are natively spoken..

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Winterval was a season of public events in Birmingham, England, organised by Birmingham City Council in each of two consecutive winters: first from 20 November to 31 December 1997, and then again from mid-October 1998 to mid-January 1999..

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This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel, Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four..

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In 2021, the region was home to an estimated 26.

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The name "Cthulhu" derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928..

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Māori are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (commonly known by the Māori name Pākehā)..

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Phraya Anuman Rajadhon (1888–1969) was the first Thai scholar to seriously study local folkloristics..

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As the ingredients were expensive, the pies were only eaten on feast days; this changed to their becoming associated with Christmas, when they are mostly consumed..

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It is also rumored that professional killers dispose of bodies in the surrounding woods—with one recorded case of this occurring..

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Moscow, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and a major cultural centre..

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İzmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history, and up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period..

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Due to its altitude, the city has an unusual subtropical highland climate, with rainy summers and dry winters..

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Teams, players, and cities often cite a "curse" for many negative things, such as their inability to win a sports championship, or unexpected injuries..

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Adult sea otters typically weigh between 14 and 45 kg (30–100 lb), making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the smallest marine mammals..

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It was perhaps the first city to reach a population above 200,000 in an area of about 900 ha (3..

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The first High German edition dates to 1515, printed in Strassburg..

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Sindhis have largely been isolated throughout their history; due to which Sindhi culture has preserved its uniqueness..

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The Greek language, which constitutes an independent branch within the Indo-European language family, is the oldest recorded living language, and its vocabulary has been the basis of many languages (including English) and the international scientific nomenclature..

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It recorded unprecedented ticket sale registrations across the globe, including a virtual queue of over 22 million customers for the Singapore tickets.

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The city is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province..

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Some scholars of the canonical gospels and the New Testament apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus, although that is not a common restriction of the term..

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Werewolves retain human intelligence but cannot speak..

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It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America that was fully devoted to rail..

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Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality, such as the Negaverse or Wonderland.

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Main characters can achieve such self-awareness by interacting with their environment, by enlisting the help of mentors, by changing their viewpoint, or by some other method..

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have the second-most dangerous occupation, trailing only loggers..

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India has the largest number of followers of Hinduism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and the Bahá'í Faith in the world..

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4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17% of the world population..

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