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  2. Lamashtu - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian name in Old Babylonian cuneiform, d Dim 3-me [1]. In Mesopotamian mythology, Lamashtu (𒀭𒈕𒈨; Akkadian d La-maš-tu; Sumerian Dimme d Dim 3-me or Kamadme [2]) is a demonic Mesopotamian deity with the "head of a lion, the teeth of a donkey, naked breasts, a hairy body, hands stained (with blood?), long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of Anzû". [3]

  3. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The "Four Horsemen" is the professional wrestling faction that competed in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s. The faction's original incarnation consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and J. J. Dillon, with other members including Lex Luger, Sid Vicious, Sting, Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, Brian ...

  4. Pazuzu - Wikipedia

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    Pazuzu is the god of the southwestern wind and is associated with the plague. [1] Pazuzu was invoked in apotropaic amulets, which combat the powers of his rival, [33] the malicious goddess Lamashtu, who was believed to cause harm to mother and child during childbirth. He would protect humans against any variety of misfortune or plague. [34]

  5. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    They were given authority over a quarter of the Earth, to kill with sword, famine and plague, and by means of the beasts of the Earth." [7] Christianity typically interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world. [8] [9]

  6. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry ...

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    The most infamous flea-to-human transmitted disease is the bubonic plague, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry and how to ...

  7. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    In the times of the Black Plague, Death would often be depicted as an old woman known by the name of Pesta, meaning "plague hag", wearing a black hood. She would go into a town carrying either a rake or a broom. If she brought the rake, some people would survive the plague; if she brought the broom, however, everyone would die. [10]

  8. Solomonari - Wikipedia

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    The Solomonars are said to be tall, red-haired, wearing long white robes of peasants, [2] sometimes woolen, [3] or clad in ragged attire made from patches, [2] a small version of a Semantron, which serves to summon the Vântoase (alternatively the winds are contained in a little wooden jar).

  9. Beleth - Wikipedia

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    Byleth, an illustration from the Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Collin de Plancy. In demonology, Beleth, also spelled Bilet, Bileth, Byleth, or Bilith, is a king of Hell who has eighty-five legions of demons under his command.