Curse, adversity thought to be inflicted by supernatural power
The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld.
He solemnly cursed Ambiorix for instigating the conspiracy, and then poisoned himself with yew.
However, the last known 'cursed soldier', Józef Franczak, was killed in an ambush as late as 1963, almost 20 years after the Soviet take-over of Poland.
In the Aranya Kanda of Adhyatma Ramayana, the demon Kabandha narrates his story to Rama and Lakshmana, in which he says that he was a Gandharva earlier who was cursed by Ashtavakra to become a demon when he laughed on seeing him (Ashtavakra).
Niobe, the protagonist of Piers Anthony's novel With a Tangled Skein, must solve the twelve-coin variation of this puzzle to find her son in Hell: Satan has disguised the son to look identical to eleven other demons, and he is heavier or lighter depending on whether he is cursed to lie or able to speak truthfully.
Cabir has also worked as the Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for Vikram Bhatt's "Shaapit: The Cursed" (2010), ASA Productions & Enterprises.
The Chair of Death is a "cursed" two-hundred-year-old blue upholstered wing chair in the Blue Room of Baleroy Mansion in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.
Christoph's last release was Scylla & Charybdis, based on the Greek myth of two beautiful women who were cursed to become sea monsters.
According to the Book of Shadows, Sachiko might have used a spell, 'Land of Corpses', to create the cursed Heavenly Host upon her death.
Legal historian Richard Burn believed that corsned bread may have originally been the very sacramental bread, but that later, the bishops and clergy would no longer allow the communion bread for such superstitious purposes; they would, however, grant the people to use the same judicial rite, in eating some other morsels of bread, blessed or cursed for the same uses.
It was said that his family were cursed thanks to their bloodline relationship with the Dutch Overbeek family of Calcutta and Cape Town, with cholera taking his younger son in 1851, and the deaths of his wife and younger daughter before he died in 1862.
That season he caught 70 passes for 880 yards and seven touchdowns, though coach Marty Schottenheimer suspended him for a game after he cursed out strength coach Dave Redding.
The film explores the music of Carlo Gesualdo and the legends surrounding Gesualdo's personality, his cursed castle, and his murder of his wife and her lover.
On February 16, 2012, after a comparison with Brazilian singer Zé Ramalho made by Léo Bianchi, journalist of Rede Globo, Barcos cursed the reporter, calling him "boludo", a popular scold in Argentina.
Ashbee was, however, cursed by an old injury in the subsequent Championship campaign, being diagnosed with an osteochondral defect, a degenerative bone condition in his femur.
Shah’s desire was to reach the cursed mountain of Tulu Wallel, where decades before an English adventurer called Frank Hayter claimed to have discovered the gold mines of King Solomon.
The quiet Amyclaeans were struck by the cursed and numerous forces of the swamp, unstoppable beings such as the monstrous serpent with nine heads, the Lernaean Hydra, which attacked from the swamps with poisonous venom, and whose heads would re-grow as quickly as Hercules could slice them off with his sword.
Richard Kurin, Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem, New York: HarperCollins Publishers & Smithsonian Press, 2006.
the film was written and directed by Takashi Shimizu and is divided in six parts, chronicling the experiences of tenants of a cursed house where a man, Takeo Saeki (Takashi Matsuyama) killed his wife, Kayako (Takako Fuji), and his son, Toshio (Ryota Koyama), in a jealous rage.
Dredd was sent to the Cursed Earth to oversee the construction of four new mutant townships which were being set up in the Cursed Earth to house the recently deported mutants.
As a result, the San Antonio-titled show changed to "The Mike Taylor Show." Taylor has been linked to a sports myth of having cursed the fortunes of the San Antonio Spurs since he moved to town.
Level-5, independent video game developer and publisher, one of ten largest in Japan; founded in 1998 by Akihiro Hino; high-profile titles True Fantasy Live Online, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King and Rogue Galaxy
Upon raising $150.00 to get it back by installing an air conditioner (which is said to be cursed by Satan) in their neighbor Natasha's window, they end up having to venture through their apartment after it was frozen by the cursed air conditioner and must make it to the furnace so that they can get out and save their moving van before it is compacted.
The god Shiva, from Hindu religion, has cursed the village where Chu resides.
In the Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'", the Griffin family is being cursed with the plagues.
The player controls a wisecracking human demon hunter named Bryce, who was cursed with immortality five hundred years ago by the demon king Astaroth.
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A wisecracking demon hunter who was cursed with immortality five centuries ago by Astaroth after he witnessed the brutal murder of his wife at the hands of the aforementioned demon king.
In his book Los Malditos (Spanish, "The cursed ones") he analyzed the history of some people usually being relegated to a second plane by other historians, such as Manuel Ugarte, Arturo Jauretche and Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz.
The story of the film revolves around a cursed nightie which changes hands in a logical manner, not magically.
William's wife Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchester rifle, and moved to San Jose, California and began building a chaotic mansion now known as the Winchester Mystery House with her inheritance, intending to confuse the spirits seeking revenge.
There is reference to the city of Gaya and the Phalgu in the Ramayana in which it says that Sita had cursed the Phalgu River.
29: "Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee" (Yerushalmi Berakhot, viii.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, Knight was interviewed by anchor Bryant Gumbel on the CBS morning program The Early Show Thinking he was off air after the segment, Gumbel profanely cursed Knight, who has been featured on virtually every major network news or talk show.
This translation is of interest to J. R. R. Tolkien readers as it contains references to the Sword "Tyrfing", a parallel to Túrin Turambar's sword "Anglachel", which is cursed and will not be sheathed until it sheds blood.
After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of Krishna's son Samba's getting infected by leprosy, after being cursed by his father and consequently getting cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the Chandrabhaga.
Maleficent (Kristin Bauer van Straten) appears in a different context, but it is mentioned that she is the one who cursed Aurora and that she once cursed Aurora's mother in the same manner.
Tradition has it that Terneuzen was once the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman.
The Case Of The Cursed Clock is the second book in the series Mr. Midnight, a children's horrors series written by Jim Aitchison under the pseudonym of James Lee, published by Angsana Books.
The story says that the traditional belief in his time was that cats are supposedly cursed, because of their pride and sense of superiority, which apparently caused them to refuse to bow before the Buddha in his lifetime, and that this therefore means they are barred from achieving Nirvana.
Turner describes the seventh plague of Egypt that God cursed upon the Egyptians for punishment of not releasing the Israelites from slavery, as described in the Old Testament Book of Exodus, 9:13–35.
The movie, which would have been simply called Atuk, has been called cursed as several actors associated with the film died, including John Belushi, Sam Kinison, John Candy and Chris Farley.
Kalevala (the lyrics of "Cursed Be Iron" contain a section of the poem "The Origin of Iron")
The label was founded in 1997, and has issued releases on vinyl and compact disc formats by 16, Apartment 213, As The Sun Sets, Backstabbers Inc, Cursed, Disappearer, Forensics, Meltdown, Today Is The Day, Trap Them, Verse, and XFilesX, amongst others.
Cursed Coins - A game of Reversi in which the player must cover more territory than the computer.
The transformation is also forced in the graphic novels Curse of the Were-Woman by Jason M. Burns and Christopher Provencher, where an inveterate womanizer is cursed by an angry jilted lover and witch, causing him to become a woman at night.
Besides Devi Chaudhurani, YDC has two other graphic novels in production: Warpath of the Kings, an epic action adventure depicting the little known last battle of Alexander the Great in his campaign for a global empire; and Scions of the Cursed King, a tale of love, lust, war and political intrigue set in a fantasy world inspired from Indian myths.