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Lamashtu appears as a character in the NBC television series Constantine in the episode "The Saint of Last Resorts". Lamashtu is the title of a 2015 audiobook by Paul E Cooley. Lamashtu appears as the antagonist in the 2017 film Still/Born. The song "lamashtu" by Necrophobic on their 2018 album Mark of the Necrogram is named for Lamashtu.
Halāhala (Sanskrit हलाहल) or Kālakūṭa (Sanskrit कालकूट, lit. ' poison of death ') [1] [2] is the name of a poison in Hindu mythology.It was created from the Ocean of Milk when the devas and the asuras churned it (see Samudra Manthana) in order to obtain amrita, the nectar of immortality.
The Yeth Hound (or Yell Hound) is a black dog found in Devon folklore. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , the Yeth Hound is a headless dog, said to be the spirit of an unbaptised child, that rambles through the woods at night making wailing noises.
Lamashtu with lion's head, standing on a donkey, holding snakes, with a suckling pig and dog; bronze plate from Charchemish. [91] There has been considerable and wide-ranging speculation concerning the possible origins of the story of Perseus and the Gorgons, as well as gorgoneia, the representations of Gorgon faces. [92]
Evil poison they have placed in his body. An evil malediction has come into his parts. Evil and trouble they have placed in his body. Poison and taint have come into his body. They have produced evil. Evil being, evil face, evil mouth, evil tongue. Sorcery, venom, slaver, wicked machinations, Which are produced in the body of the sick man.
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
Although claiming that as a werewolf he was a "hound of God", the judges deemed him guilty of trying to turn people away from Christianity, and he was sentenced to be both flogged and banished for life. According to Thiess' account, he and the other werewolves transformed on three nights a year, and then traveled down to Hell.
Curare was used as a paralyzing poison by many South American indigenous people. Since it was too expensive to be used in warfare, curare was mainly used for hunting. [ 3 ] The prey was shot by arrows or blowgun darts dipped in curare, leading to asphyxiation owing to the inability of the victim's respiratory muscles to contract.