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The Conjuring 2


Patrick Wilson performs Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" on a guitar in the film, while songs such as The Clash's "London Calling", Bee Gees's "I Started A Joke" and the traditional nursery rhymes "This Old Man" and "There Was a Crooked Man" are also featured. Composer Mark Isham's family themes from the first film, "Photograph" and "Happy Family", were also used in "The Conjuring 2". In December 2015, "Entertainment
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The Conjuring Universe


and Wan and Safran co-producing the project. In addition to "The Nun", another spin-off film from "The Conjuring 2", titled "The Crooked Man", is in development. A standalone film, "The Curse of La Llorona", was released in April 2019. The two "Conjuring" films were met with generally positive reviews by both critics and horror fans, earning praise for Wan's directing and main cast performances, particularly Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga's on-screen chemistry
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The Conjuring


include "The Nun", released in 2018, and "The Crooked Man", which is in development. In June 2013, it was reported that New Line Cinema was already developing a sequel. Both Farmiga and Wilson are signed on to reprise their roles for an additional film. "The Conjuring 2" was scheduled to be released on October 23, 2015, but in October 2014, Warner Bros. moved the film's release date to an unspecified 2016 release date. On October 21, it was announced that James
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The Conjuring Universe


The Conjuring 2", was in development with Mike Van Waes writing the script based on a story treatment by James Wan. Wan and Safran are set to produce the project. Wan later told "Entertainment Weekly" that "The Crooked Man" is in the early stages of development and that the intent with the movie is to develop a "dark fairytale" sub-genre of horror films. By September 2018, Safran gave an update on the project stating that the script was in progress of being written and that the
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The Conjuring 2


returning home, Ed adds an item to his and Lorraine's collection – a haunted "Crooked Man" zoetrope toy owned by Peggy's youngest child Billy – placing it beside April's music box and in front of the Annabelle doll. In July 2013, prior to "The Conjuring" release, "Variety" reported that New Line Cinema was already in the early stages of development of a sequel, following the positive test screenings and reviews of the first film. The film deals with the case of the Enfield poltergeist,
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The Conjuring Universe


co-star, with the project wrapping principal photography in November 2017. "The Curse of La Llorona" premiered at South by Southwest on March 15, 2019, to mixed reviews. The film was released on April 19, 2019. In May 2017, Safran stated that the Crooked Man was being considered by the studio, for a feature film. By June of the same year, it was reported that a spin-off film titled "The Crooked Man", featuring the character of the same name from "
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The Conjuring 2


17, 2016, a 65-year-old man died of a heart attack while watching the film at a cinema in Tiruvannamalai, India. "The Conjuring 2" was released as a digital download on August 30, 2016, and on DVD and Blu-ray on September 13, 2016. Bonus features include behind the scenes footage, featurettes, and deleted scenes. "The Conjuring 2" grossed $102.5million in the United States and Canada and $217.9million in other territories for a worldwide total gross of $320.4million. Although
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The House of Hate


man standing inside house, man prying window open, all but last scene of man working on safe, Reel 2, crook knocking policeman down, man tripping and knocking officer down in alley, crooks slugging butler and binding him, and crooks knocking police officer down in fight; in Chapter 11, Reel 1, young woman striking the butler on the head; in Chapter 12, Reel 2, second scene of attack on chauffeur where men carry him away; in Chapter 14, Reel 1, last two scenes of knife
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Daniel Dunglas Home


move. According to Carpenter no solid explanation could be given until the experiment is repeated, however, he suggested that the accordion feat that Home performed may have been a conjuring trick achieved with one hand. Carpenter concluded that Crookes should repeat the experiment in open daylight without the cage in the presence of other witnesses. J. P. Earwaker heavily criticized the design of the accordion experiment as it took place under a dining room table. Earwaker who read Crookes' report noted that "no reason for this strangest of all strange positions is
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Daniel Dunglas Home


of the fire feats could have easily be performed by conjuring tricks and sleight of hand but hallucination and sense-deception may have explained Crookes' claim about observing flames from Home's fingers. Between 1870 and 1873, chemist and physicist William Crookes conducted experiments to determine the validity of the phenomena produced by three mediums: Florence Cook, Kate Fox, and Home. Crookes' final report in 1874 concluded that the phenomena produced by all three mediums were genuine, a result which was roundly derided by the scientific establishment. Crookes recorded
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The Adventure of the Crooked Man


enemy, driven by one motive - to get rid of Henry so he could have Nancy for himself. Henry was tortured repeatedly, which is how he became deformed, spent years as a slave or wandering, learnt how to be a conjurer, and when he was getting old, he longed to come back to England. He sought out soldiers because he was familiar with the milieu; likewise Doyle's account hints that another reason that Wood came back is that he does not have many years left to live - his yellow
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The Adventure of the Crooked Man


was to open the inside door and summon help, and he took the key from the now-unconscious Nancy to do so, but realizing that the situation looked very bad for him and that he himself could be charged with murder, he chose instead to flee, stopping long enough to retrieve Teddy, his mongoose that he used in his conjuring acts, which had escaped from the wooden box. However, he did drop his stick, the strange weapon that was later found, and he inadvertently carried the key off with
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Spider-Man 2 (video game)


, wall crawling, fighting, etc.). The storyline for the game starts off with a cutscene of a gray van being chased down by the police before it crashes, and out come two crooks. Spider-Man dispatches the crooks quickly, but the van drives away automatically. Spider-Man follows it to the New York Maximum Security Prison where a large group of thugs are causing a riot. Spider-Man defeats many crooks and escaping prisoners before Rhino busts out of the prison. He briefly fights Spider-
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The Wolf Among Us


. The Crooked Man explains that the situation is all a misunderstanding by Georgie, who had only been asked to deal with an internal problem, but Georgie asserts the Crooked Man told him to kill the women. A fight ensues and ends with the Crooked Man escaping, and a fatally stabbed Georgie fleeing with Vivian. When Bigby tracks Vivian to the Club, she explains that the Crooked Man and Georgie were acting to stop a plot spearheaded by Faith with the other prostitutes. Vivian is revealed to be the girl with the ribbon
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The Conjurer (painting)


central character and true focus of the image is the man of rank in the forefront who leans in and is fixed on the pearl in the conjurer's hand while unaware of being relieved of his money purse. Bosch depicts the conjurer as a common criminal, luring in the prey. Beasts are used in the painting to symbolize human traits that allow for deception and victimization. The little owl from the basket at the conjurer's waist signifies his intelligence. Frogs jumping out of the mouth of the central character represent the extent to
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There Was a Crooked Man


the poem originates from British history, specifically the period of the English Stuart King Charles I of England (1600–1649). The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" in the poem was the border between England and Scotland. "They all lived together in a little crooked house" refers to the fact that the English and Scots had at last come to an agreement, despite continuing great animosity between the two
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Philip S. Crooke


Darius Couch, and helped man the defenses of Harrisburg against a threatened attack by Confederates under Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell. When the Confederates retired to Virginia following the Battle of Gettysburg, Crooke and his men returned to New York for the duration of the war. Crooke lived in the historic Jans Martense Schenck house in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn. The house was inherited by his wife. The house came to be known as the "Martense-Crooke house". The original 2 room portion of the home was rebuilt
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The Book of Lost Things


others to chase him through his tunnels into the castle. In the throne room, David tells the King that he knows that he is Jonathan and about his betrayal of Anna. The Crooked Man appears, trying to tempt David to stay, promising protection from the wolves and Loups that burst in and massacre the guards. David refuses to betray Georgie to the Crooked Man, who dies after Leroi kills the King. At the Crooked Man's death, Anna sighs with joy and disappears. Because the Loups were a creation of
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Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan


compassion and understanding, because this is the duty enjoined upon them by Allah, who enjoins upon us to treat all living creatures with dignity. How can there be anything less for mankind, created as Allah's successors on earth? Our system of government does not derive its authority from man, but is enshrined in our religion and is based on Allah's Book, the Quran. What need have we of what others have conjured up? Its teachings are eternal and complete, while the systems conjured up by man are transitory
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Ghost hunting


Their purportedly real-life exploits inspired "The Amityville Horror" story and film franchise. In "The Conjuring", the Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experience increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971. "The Conjuring" was released in the United States and Canada on July 19, 2013, and grossed over $319 million worldwide. A sequel, "The Conjuring 2", was released on June 10, 2016, and a prequel, Annabelle, directed by John
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The Conjuring 2


The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film, directed by James Wan. The screenplay is by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Wan, and David Leslie Johnson. It is the sequel to 2013's "The Conjuring", the second installment in "The Conjuring" series, and the third installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren from the first film. The film follows the Warrens as they travel to Britain to assist
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Alan Crook


Robert Alan (Alan) Crook (2 November 1897 – 9 August 1965) was an electrical engineer and business man with a social involvement and is recognised as the founder of Australian Rostrum. Crook was the son of a Methodist minister and moved around Victoria with his parents. He was born in Benalla, and attended school in Sale, Shepparton, Kyneton and Castlemaine. In 1911 he joined the Thompson Engineering Works in Castlemaine as an apprentice fitter aged 14. He also kept studying at night at the Castlemaine Technical College. In
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The Conjuring


in the United States and Canada on July 19, 2013, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, direction, screenplay, atmosphere, and musical score. It grossed over $319million worldwide against its $20million budget. A sequel, "The Conjuring 2", was released on June 10, 2016, with "The Conjuring 3" currently filming. In 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a dilapidated farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, with
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The Conjure Woman


exchange for information, favors, or conjuring, and demonstrate their intelligence through plots of self-gain and sometimes revenge. In "The Art of the Conjure Woman", critic and scholar Richard E. Baldwin argued that Chesnutt is "the ultimate conjure man, hoping that by 'wukking de roots' of black culture he might be able to work a powerful goopher on white America and lead it to accept the equality of the black." "The Conjure Woman" received mostly positive reviews and Houghton Mifflin released two more books
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The Conjuring 2


encounters a demonic nun figure and witnesses Ed being impaled, frightening her. In 1977, the Hodgson family begins to experience strange occurrences in their home in the London suburb of Enfield. Janet, the second oldest of four children, sleepwalks and converses in her dreams with an entity in the form of an angry elderly man who sits in the family's armchair, insisting the house is his. Eventually, all the Hodgson siblings and their mother Peggy witness paranormal events, terrifying them into seeking refuge with their neighbors. When the
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The Conjuring 2


media attempts to interview the family, Janet is possessed by the elderly man, Bill Wilkins, who previously lived and died in the house. During the possession, Wilkins states that he enjoys tormenting the family and wants to reclaim his home. As Janet shows more signs of demonic possession, the story eventually reaches the Warrens, and their assistance is requested in an investigation to prove whether or not Janet's possession is a hoax. Lorraine, fearful that her vision of Ed's death may become reality, warns him not to
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Vera Farmiga


, "The Conjuring 2" (2016), which was also directed by Wan. The film was the second released in the main series, but the third released within The Conjuring Universe. Like its predecessor, "The Conjuring 2" was met with a positive critical reception and commercial success, surpassing "The Conjuring" as the second highest-grossing horror film of all time. Farmiga appeared as Edith Martin in the romantic comedy "At Middleton", with Andy García and her sister Taissa. The film premiered at
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The Wolf Among Us


Nerissa, who is moving on with her life. She admits that Faith concocted a plan with Lily, Nerissa, and the other prostitutes to blackmail Georgie and the Crooked Man for their freedom, using a picture of Lily and Crane together, but Georgie killed Faith when he discovered their plot. Nerissa left Faith's head at the Woodlands to get Bigby involved, and gave false testimony to have the Crooked Man punished, knowing that he was the one who ordered their deaths. Leaving, she comments that Bigby is not as
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The Conjuring 3


The Conjuring 3 is an upcoming American supernatural horror film, directed by Michael Chaves from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film will serve as a sequel to 2013's "The Conjuring" and 2016's "The Conjuring 2", and as the eighth installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be reprising their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with James Wan and Peter Safran returning to co-produce the project. "The Conjuring 3" entered production
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Dark of the Moon (play)


. O Conjur Man, O Conjur Man, Please do this thing I'm wantin' Please change me to a human man, Fer Barbara I'll be courtin'. Now Barbara had a red, red dress, And one she had of blue, And many men did Barbara love, But never was she true. Oh, you can be a man, a man, If Barbara will not grieve you, If she be faithful fer a year, Yer Eagle, he will leave you. O Barbara will you
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Stephen Egerton (priest)


was described by Alexander Nowell, in a letter, as a "man of great learning and godliness." He married in 1585 Sarah Crooke, daughter of Thomas Crooke. Sarah's father and her brother Samuel Crooke were both clergyman who shared Egerton's strongly Puritan beliefs; another of Sarah's brothers, Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, is best remembered as the founder of the town of Baltimore, County Cork. They had no children; Sarah died in 1624, bequeathing her husband's death's head ring to her
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The Wolf Among Us


in the Cut Above butcher shop, a pawn shop called the Lucky Pawn where the Crooked Man distributes his loans to Fables owned by Jersey Devil, another henchman of the Crooked Man, and Crane's presence, as well as the missing Mirror Shard. The Mirror reveals Mary putting Crane onto an overseas flight to keep him from talking, as well as the next location of the door to the Crooked Man's realm, which moves around the city. Bigby enters the Crooked Man's realm alone, meeting him and his agents
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The Conjuring Universe


Evergreen Media Group. All seven films of the Conjuring Universe, including "The Conjuring" films, the "Annabelle" films, "The Nun" and "The Curse of La Llorona" take place between 1952 and 1977, with "The Nun" taking place first, followed by "Annabelle: Creation", "Annabelle", "The Conjuring", "Annabelle Comes Home", "The Curse of La Llorona" and "The Conjuring 2". In January 2012, Bloody Disgusting confirmed Wan as the
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The Book of Lost Things


stone altar, descends from the tower and rides Scylla towards the King's castle. En route David kills two thieves who try to steal Scylla, and the Crooked Man protects him from wolves. When he reaches the castle, the King sends soldiers to meet him. The chief guard, Duncan, takes him to meet the King; David is taken to his room to eat and rest. During the night, David is awakened by voices; it is the Crooked Man on the throne, talking to the King who sits
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The Conjuring 2


concluded in December 2015 in London. "The Conjuring 2" had its world premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre on June 7, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 10, 2016, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. The film received generally positive reviews from critics—who praised the performances, Wan's direction, screenplay, atmosphere and Joseph Bishara's musical score—and grossed over $320million worldwide. A spin-off prequel, "The Nun", was released on September 7
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Insidious: Chapter 2


Insidious: Chapter 2" is composed by Joseph Bishara, who previously collaborated with director James Wan on the first installment as well as "The Conjuring". "Finding the right range and tone for the feeling is an important part," described Bishara on generating tension through sound. "James is very particular with sting placement along with Kirk, our editor on both "Insidious" films and "Conjuring". Silence can create a listening space, where rather than give you something else to listen to it enables you to
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List of Marvel Family enemies (N–Z)


. The Boss seizes Mary to prevent her speaking and tell the other crook they will have to get rid of her now. They gag Mary, tie her hands, and place her on a chair. A man called Jives comes along, and because of his accent the crooks think he is English Harry, described as De Slickest Crook in De rackets, who was not supposed to arrive till the next day. His 'arrumph' makes it clearer to the reader who he is. They tell him their plan, and
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By Hook or by Crook (2001 film)


By Hook or by Crook is a 2001 queer buddy film by writers/directors/actors Harry Dodge and Silas Howard and produced by Steakhaus Productions. Stanya Kahn was a contributing writer. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. "By Hook or by Crook" chronicles the tale of two unlikely friends who commit petty crimes as they search for a path to understanding themselves and the outside world. Silas Howard plays Shy, (a Transgender man) who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads
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J. Jonah Jameson


Spider-Man, Jameson never hesitates to use the power of his paper against supervillains, crooked politicians, and crime bosses, including the Kingpin. (In fact, the Kingpin's attempt to silence Jameson, and Spider-Man's attempt to rescue him, are central plot-elements in the Kingpin's very first appearance.) After initially supporting Sam Bullitt, a candidate for New York Attorney General who had pledged to arrest Spider-Man if elected, Jameson reverses his stance after learning that Bullitt is a racist crook
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Pumpkinhead (film series)


from his motorcycle and allowing Pumpkinhead to catch up to him. As the man is being killed, the film cuts to a man in a log cabin who seems to share the pain inflicted by Pumpkinhead on the fallen man. The surviving man, named Dallas, rides to the log cabin, and the man who conjured Pumpkinhead, begging him to call the demon off. Pumpkinhead smashes through the window and Dallas attempts to fend him off by shooting him with a small pistol with little effect, and is clawed in the chest
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Crooks Anonymous


he desperately wants to quit, but is always lured back into another crime by his associates. Babette comes across a society known as Crooks Anonymous who help hardened thieves go straight. Founded by Mr Montague (Wilfrid Hyde-White), and funded by a generous legacy, they have an excellent track record. Babette agrees to help them cure Forsdyke. Forsdyke is picked up during a robbery by a Crooks Anonymous man Brother Widdowes (Stanley Baxter) disguised as a policeman, and taken to the Crooks Anonymous headquarters. Confronted by
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African-American folktales


always contain an actual 'trickster' but a theme of trickery tactics. For example, Charles Chesnutt's collected a series a stories titled "The Conjure Woman" (1899). One of the story trickster tactics is "how an enslaved man is spared being sent from one plantation to another by having his wife, who is a conjure woman, turn him into a tree...the trickery works until a local sawmill selects that particular tree to cut". During the period of slavery, "and for decades thereafter,
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The Conjurer (painting)


which the victim let go of reason and gave in to bestial impulses. The child engrossed in our victim and the man stealing the money purse seems to exemplify the Flemish proverb: "He who lets himself be fooled by conjuring tricks loses his money and becomes the laughing stock of children." Another Flemish proverb, published and widely distributed ca 1480 in Bosch's hometown of 's-Hertogenbosch about the time of this painting, is: "No one is so much a fool as a willful fool." Bosch had
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airing. This was followed by a featurette titled "Strange Happenings in Enfield", in which the Hodgson sisters and Lorraine Warren discuss their experiences with the case. Two weeks prior to "The Conjuring 2" premiere, fans were given the opportunity to take a 360-degree virtual reality tour of the film's Enfield house setting. Following that, another featurette was released, titled "Audio Recordings", which featured a recording of the alleged demon that inspired the film. "The Conjuring 2" was originally scheduled to be released
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The Conjuring 2


by its third weekend as a result of numerous newly released films. "Forbes" magazine noted that "The Conjuring 2" was falling faster than the previous film, but had already made more than "", "Annabelle", and both "The Purge" and "" had done at that point in their releases. Unlike its predecessor, "The Conjuring 2" proved to be more front-loaded, earning 2.5 times its opening weekend, compared to the original film earning 3.22 times its debut numbers. Outside
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Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)


"Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)" was a folk music single, the debut recording by the Serendipity Singers in 1964. The song was based on the English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man". The song was first recorded as "Crooked Little House" by Jimmie Rodgers in 1960, on his album "At Home with Jimmie Rodgers - An Evening of Folk Songs", on which the songwriting was credited to Ersel Hickey and Ed E. Miller. In 1964, it was
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others


witch-bone" which has gotten him safely through his travels and his service in World War II. They befriend Cora Fisher, a witch driven to magic by personal tragedy, and encounter Effie Kolb, the youthful-appearing witch who first initiated Tom, who brought Tom his dying father whom she turned into a horse that she rode to death. Tom resolves to take his father's corpse to a church up in "The Hurricaine," a part of the mountain dominated by "The Crooked Man," an eighteenth
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Andrew Crooke and William Cooke


's "Wit Without Money" in 1639. In addition, Andrew Crooke issued plays apart from Cooke: Most of the above plays were printed by Thomas Cotes, the man who printed the Shakespeare Second Folio in 1632. There was a strong professional relationship between Crooke and Cotes. (Cooke usually employed other printers for his independently published plays, cited below.) William Cooke also published some Shirley plays on his own: Altogether, Crooke and Cooke published almost two-thirds of Shirley's lifetime dramatic output. Cooke disappears from
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The Conjuring


bullshit". The success of "The Conjuring" has spawned several related films and sequels. Along with the original film, there is 2016's "The Conjuring 2" and "The Conjuring 3", which is scheduled to be released in 2020. Three films about the Annabelle doll have been made: 2014's "Annabelle", its prequel "" from 2017, and a sequel to both films "Annabelle Comes Home" from 2019. Two other films featuring supernatural threats first seen in "The Conjuring" films
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The Conjuring 2


The Hound of Baskerville"". In May 2017, Safran said it would be unlikely that a third installment would be a "haunted house" film. In June 2017, it was announced a third installment was in development, with "The Conjuring 2" co-writer David Leslie Johnson hired to write the screenplay. In August 2017, Wan told "Entertainment Weekly" that the filmmakers have "been working hard on "The Conjuring 3"", and that "we're in the midst of working on the
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Canvey Island


say it was a man who drowned, but the majority speak of a female ghost who has wandered the area since her horse-drawn carriage plummeted into the lake. A recent clean-up of the lake found remains of two horses and fragments of a wooden carriage. The story of 'The Black Man' and 'The White Lady' is believed to be a mythical tale conjured up by smugglers to stop people wandering onto the 'saltings' and finding their smuggled goods. It was said that 'The Black Man
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The Conjuring 2


grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by its predecessor. In her review for "The Hollywood Reporter", Sheri Linden praised the film, saying, "Three years after "The Conjuring" rattled the multiplex with old-school horror, director James Wan ups the ante with an excellent sequel." Owen Gleiberman of "Variety" gave the film a mixed review, writing, "On one level, "The Conjuring 2" is just a not-bad megaplex funhouse
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Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)


are conjuring up their fantasies, but also that the visions are starting to prove deadly for them. Kirk orders everyone to come to attention and stop thinking about anything. An elderly man appears and identifies himself as the "Caretaker." Accompanying him is Dr. McCoy, who was revived by the sophisticated machinery below the planet's surface. McCoy smiles and confirms he is all right and shows off the two Rigelian cabaret girls he conjured up, to the irritation of a jealous Yeoman Barrows. The Caretaker informs Kirk that the planet
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Jacob wrestling with the angel


), "Israel" — as well as similarity to the root of Jacob's name (which sounds like the Hebrew for "heel") and its compound. The limping of Jacob ("Yaʿaqob "), may mirror the name of the river, Jabbok ("Yabbok" יַבֹּק sounds like "crooked" river), and Nahmanides (Deut. 2:10 of Jeshurun) gives the etymology "one who walks crookedly" for the name Jacob. The Hebrew text states that it is a "man" (אִישׁ,
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The Conjuring 2


which took place in the London Borough of Enfield from 1977 to 1979, and involved the alleged haunting of two sisters, aged 11 and 13, at their mother's council house. "The Conjuring 2" also touches on the Warrens' most famous and most documented case, "The Amityville Horror". In July 2013, it was reported that Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson had signed on to reprise their roles from "The Conjuring". This was confirmed in February 2014. On October 21, 2014, it was
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Half-Man


king's daughter. He used the wand to make her magically pregnant with a son who would walk and talk at birth and say that Half-Man was his father. She gave birth nine months later, and the boy said he could recognize his father. The king made all the men pass before the boy, who recognized Half-Man. Angry, the king sent all three of the sons away. As soon as they reached a suitable place, Half-Man conjured up a castle. He went ahead of
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Simon Delaney


Simon Delaney (born 2 September 1970) is an Irish actor, director and television presenter. He is known for appearances in a range of films and television series such as RTÉ's comedy-drama "Bachelors Walk" and CBS' legal drama "The Good Wife", and in the films "Zonad" (2009), "Delivery Man" (2013), and "The Conjuring 2" (2016). Delaney hosts the TV3 morning show "Saturday AM". Delaney was born in his family home
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The House of the Devil (1896 film)


sword to attack the skeleton, which then turns into a bat, then into Mephistopheles, who conjures four spectres to subdue the man. Recovering from the spectres' attack, the man is visibly dazed and is brought the woman from the cauldron, who impresses him with her beauty. Mephistopheles then turns her into a withered old crone in front of the man's eyes, then again into the four spectres. The second cavalier returns and after a brief show of bravery, flees again, this time by leaping over the balcony
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There Was a Crooked Man...


There Was a Crooked Man... is a 1970 American western film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda. It was the only western made by Mankiewicz. It was written by David Newman and Robert Benton, their first script after "Bonnie and Clyde". In 1883, Paris Pitman, Jr. has pulled off a $500,000 robbery and, having murdered his partners, is the only one who knows where the money is hidden. He is seen in a bordello and is captured, tried, convicted
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There Was a Crooked Man...


The New York Times" was generally positive: "Although "There Was A Crooked Man..." is rather low-keyed and takes its own sweet time to reveal itself, it is a movie of the sort of taste, intelligence and somewhat bitter humor I associate with Mr. Mankiewicz who, in real life, is one of America's most sophisticated, least folksy raconteurs, especially of stories about the old Hollywood." "Variety" wrote that the cast of stars, Newman and Benton script and director/producer Mankiewicz
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The Book of Lost Things


of her. The book belongs to Jonathan Tulvey, Rose's uncle who disappeared with his adopted sister Anna, and David realises that Jonathan is the King. David finds a door to the Crooked Man's home. Inside is an hourglass with a little sand in the top bulb and a glass jar with the ghost of the little girl, Anna. She tells David of how Jonathan led her to the garden and through the hole in the wall, where the Crooked Man was waiting for them. He took her back to
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Norwich Market


, and displays by conjurers, puppeteers, singers, acrobats and other entertainers also regularly took place. Displays of human deformities were also popular; records exist from the 1670s and 1680s of the Mayor granting exhibition licences to, among others, "a monstrous man with 2 bodies brought from the Indies by Sir Thomas Grantham", "a girl of sixteen with no bones", "a monstrous hayrie child", and "a monstrous man taken from amongst the hills of Corinthia, he feeds on the roots of trees etc
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Batcombe, Dorset


repaired, they repaired it at a crooked angle. It is said that Minterne vowed that he would be buried neither in nor out of the church, so he was buried half in and half out of the Minterne Chapel. Much of the church was rebuilt by John Hicks in 1864, which resulted in the loss of the Minterne chapel. The memorial tablets were repositioned on the north side of the tower. A "conjurer" used to be an important character in a Dorset village, and was generally of good reputation.
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The Conjuring 2


station. Filming concluded on December 1, 2015. Production lasted for 50 days, with 40 days filming on sound stages at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, and 10 days on location in London. The original musical score for "The Conjuring 2" was written by Joseph Bishara and was released on June 3, 2016, by WaterTower Music. Bishara, a recurring collaborator of director James Wan, composed the score after having previously written the music for "The Conjuring" and the "Insidious" film series. Lead actor
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The Conjuring Universe


that a spin-off film titled "The Nun", featuring the "Demon Nun" character Valak from "The Conjuring 2", was in development with "The Conjuring 2" co-scribe David Leslie Johnson writing the script, and Wan and Safran set to produce the project. In February of the following year, it was announced that Corin Hardy had signed on to direct. Gary Dauberman was also reported to have written a new screenplay based on a story treatment from James Wan and Dauberman. In April 2017
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The Nun (2018 film)


The Nun is a 2018 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Corin Hardy and written by Gary Dauberman, from a story by Dauberman and James Wan. It is a spin-off of 2016's "The Conjuring 2" and the fifth installment in the Conjuring Universe franchise. The film stars Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga and Jonas Bloquet, with Bonnie Aarons reprising her role as the Demon Nun, an incarnation of Valak, from "The Conjuring 2". The plot follows a Roman Catholic priest and a nun in her
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Häxan Surtant


, she must go home to her mother who tells her that they said on TV that someone conjured her favourite things, so she can't go out and have fun. Häxan wants to be alone and her mother promises to leave her alone at home if she conjures the things back, so she does it. After that she sleeps in her mother's sofa until the next Sunday, when she finds a new hobby but becomes unhappy on the hobby. And when she sleeps, she dreams about "elaka saker man kan
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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud


log cabin who seems to share the pain inflicted by Pumpkinhead on the fallen man. The surviving man, named Dallas, rides to the log cabin, and the man who conjured Pumpkinhead, begging him to call the demon off. Pumpkinhead smashes through the window and Dallas attempts to fend him off by shooting him with a small pistol with little effect, and is clawed in the chest by the demon. When Dallas realizes that his bullets have no effect on Pumpkinhead, he swears to take the summoner with him, shooting the
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others


Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others is the tenth collected edition of Mike Mignola's comic book series Hellboy, collecting "Hellboy: The Crooked Man" #1-3, "Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch", "Hellboy: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships" and the story "The Mole" from "Free Comic Book Day 2008: Hellboy." The collected edition features an introduction by Gahan Wilson. As with Hellboy stories generally, it was published by Dark Horse Comics. The
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The Book of Lost Things


Here David meets the Crooked Man, who promises David the life he had before his mother's death. The ground reflects what looks like his father, Rose, and Georgie dancing happily. The image transforms into one of Rose and David's father making love; David looks away, so overcome with anger that he cuts the Crooked Man with his sword. In the distance, howls fill the air as the wolves find another bridge to cross the canyon. Roland and David spend the night in an abandoned church, where Roland
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The Crooked Man (2003 film)


The Crooked Man was a one-off British crime drama film, written by Shaun McKenna and directed by David Drury, that first broadcast on ITV1 on 17 December 2003. The film stars Ross Kemp as Harry Fielding, an investigative reporter and government spy who becomes embroiled in a twisted case of murder and blackmail involving his bosses Hamilton (Liam Cunningham) and Saunders (Michael Byrne). The film itself based upon the novel of the same name by Philip Davison, and was commissioned as part of ITV's Christmas Drama slate
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The Adventure of the Crooked Man


"The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation
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Annabelle Comes Home


Wilson announced that he had finished filming his scenes. Filming officially wrapped on December 14, 2018. In February 2019, Joseph Bishara—who composed the scores for "The Conjuring", "Annabelle", "The Conjuring 2", and "The Curse of La Llorona"—was revealed to be returning to score "Annabelle Comes Home". On March 15, 2019, New Line Cinema released a teaser revealing the official title of the film. The first trailer was released on March 30, 2019. A second trailer was
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The Conjuring Universe


competition. Just over 2 minutes in length, the film was inspired by the nordic version of the Sandman, known as John Blund. The Short film was released in September 14, 2017. "Innocent Souls" is a 2017 Colombian horror short film directed by Alejandro López. The film was written and produced also by Alejandro López. "Innocent Souls" was the winner of the Colombian competition. The short film was released in November 3, 2017. This table lists the main characters who appear in the Conjuring Universe,
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Republic (Plato)


looked at out of the water, and crooked when in the water; and the concave becomes convex, owing to the illusion about colours to which the sight is liable. Thus every sort of confusion is revealed within us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenous devices imposes, having an effect upon us like magic." He speaks about illusions and confusion. Things can look very similar, but be different in reality. Because we
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Hold Fast (album)


its history. Hopewell has explained, ""The fact which illuminated the phrase ‘I love you, will you marry me?’ is that they left the name just as it is and that in itself sounds like a Crookes song – that kind of idea with a name framed for obscurity that runs through a lot of our songs. I think we often get labelled as romantics, which is fair to a certain extent, but a lot of the time that conjures up a slightly wide-eyed image as the reality
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others


to persuade Tom that he his soul can still be saved. Effie and the region's witches surround the church grounds which they cannot enter, calling to Ferrell to join them as the Crooked Man arrives and demand Tom to pay his debt. The Crooked Man attempted to tempt Watt's assistance with gold, youth and sight and then appeal to Hellboy's demonic nature, revealing he is after the bone in Tom's possession. After Watts infuses the holy spirit into the bone, he and Tom burn a cross onto a
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others


-century miser and war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins who was hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region's resident Devil. Tom invites Hellboy to accompany him and Cora, helping to save the girl's soul while knowing he can never escape the Crooked Man. Tom and Hellboy discuss the latter's burden to must be many times worse than Tom's but which he hasn't started to feel yet. They try to take Cora through a region of coal mines, but it was infested with deformed cannibal witches descended
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The House of Hate


try and unmask and defeat the Hooded Terror and his gang of crooks. Like many American films of the time, "The House of Hate" was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Chapter 1, Reel 2, the dagger descending on Walden's back, Reel 3, knocking down motorcycle policeman, and the masked man shooting guard and guard falling; in Chapter 2, Reel 1, two intertitles "Detective Herrick, the masked man killed
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The Wolf Among Us


are forced to defend their actions against claims from the Fables. Bigby recounts Vivian's and Georgie's confessions regarding the Crooked Man's involvement, but his word is deemed untrustworthy. Nerissa appears and testifies that she and five other women heard the Crooked Man order the murders. Their testimonies are considered sufficient to believe what Bigby did was right. In the epilogue, Snow and Bluebeard deal with the fallout of the Crooked Man's actions, while Bigby sees off those Fables being taken back to the Farm. Afterward, he encounters
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The Ballyhoo Buster


last three rounds with anyone who challenges him in the ring, a "ballyhoo". He becomes quite a draw, and eventually the show makes an appearance in Warner's home town. He is challenged by the man who stole his girlfriend. While in the ring with a contestant, he notices the two robbers among the spectators. He knocks out the contestant, then chases after the two crooks. In the chase, one of the crooks hops into a car and then loses control, plunging over an incline and killing
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Die Frau ohne Schatten


his bare hands. Finally he realizes he can't do it. He resolves to seek out some isolated ravine to be alone with his misery. "Scene 3" At the Dyer's house, the Dyer is drugged into sleep by the Nurse. The Nurse again conjures up the young man for the Wife, who grows frightened and rouses the Dyer. Barak is surprised to learn that there is a man in his house but then is quickly turned upon by his Wife, who shouts at him, then leaves for the
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Scream queen


2007), and "The Eye" (2008). Vera Farmiga had lead roles in "Joshua" (2007), "Orphan" (2009), "The Conjuring" (2013), "The Conjuring 2" (2016), "Annabelle Comes Home" (2019), and "The Conjuring 3" (2020). Vera Farmiga also starred in the series "Bates Motel", a contemporary prequel to "Psycho". Taissa Farmiga starred in multiple seasons of the series "American Horror
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Natasha Little


(series 2). Other television credits include "The Bill" (1998); "Big Women" (1998); Becky Sharp in "Vanity Fair" (1998); "Cadfael" (1998); "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" (1999); "Man and Boy"; "Far from the Madding Crowd"; "Murder in Mind" (2003); playing Vicki Westbrook in the spy drama, "Spooks" (2003); "The Crooked Man"
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Giganto


were her own child. Mole Man, Giganto, and Tricephalous were conjured from the timestream by Aron the Rogue Watcher to oppose allies of the Fantastic Four who have come to prevent him from creating a pocket universe. Giganto fought the Thing who buried it in a landslide. Mole Man assembled Giganto and other monsters to invade the surface only for it to be abandoned when the Fantastic Four were discovered to be alive. During his labors for the reality TV Show "The New Labors of Hercules," Hercules was sent to capture
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Horror film


by Jennifer Kent received critical acclaim and won many awards. "It Follows" (2014) subverted traditional horror tropes of sexuality and slasher films and enjoyed commercial and critical success. "The Conjuring Universe" is a series of horror films which deal with the paranormal. The series includes "The Conjuring" (2013), "Annabelle" (2014), "The Conjuring 2" (2016), "" (2017), "The Nun" (2018), "The Curse of La Llorona" (
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The Crooked Man (2003 film)


for 2003. Against stiff competition, the film gathered 5.66m viewers on its debut broadcast. The film was released on Region 2 DVD via Studio Canal in 2004, exclusively in the Netherlands. Harry Fielding (Ross Kemp) is an investigative reporter working for a secret agency designed to covertly document the compromising activities of important public figures. His latest task is to investigate member of parliament Douglas Jenner (Rupert Frazer), who has reportedly been playing away from his wife with a mistress, Angela Richardson (Marina Morgan).
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Evocation


magic tricks for entertainment. One who performs conjurations is called a conjurer or conjuror. The word (as "conjuration" or "conjurison") was formerly used in its Latin meaning of "conspiracy". The text of the charms to be recited to conjure the spirit varies considerably from simple sentences to complex paragraphs with plenty of magic words. The language usually is that of the conjurer's, but since the Middle Ages in Western tradition, Latin was the most common (although many texts have been translated into other languages
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Pyrokinesis


feats could have easily be performed by conjuring tricks and sleight of hand but hallucination and sense-deception may have explained Crookes' claim about observing flames from Home's fingers. Joseph McCabe has written that Home's alleged feats of pyrokinesis were weak and unsatisfactory, he noted that they were performed in dark conditions amongst unreliable witnesses. McCabe suggested the coal handling was probably a "piece of asbestos from Home's pocket". In March 2011, a three-year-old girl in Antique Province, Philippines gained media attention for
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Spider-Man 2 (video game)


spot MJ's car getting stolen. Peter tells MJ to wait where she is while he calls the police. Then Spider-Man follows the car to a garage where he confronts the villain Puma and a band of his crooks in a warehouse. Puma leads Spider-Man on a chase throughout the warehouse while Spider-Man pummels his way through Puma's cronies, and their initial fight takes place in a small room. After Puma takes some beating, he takes the fight outside to the rooftops, at a water fountain
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Plastic Man


winning "Plastic Man" series; artist Ethan Van Sciver, who has an affinity for the character, has mentioned often toying with the idea of launching a regular monthly Plastic Man series and often draws the character for fun; and Frank Miller, who included him in the Justice League in the comics "All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder" and "". Plastic Man was a crook named Patrick "Eel" O'Brian. Orphaned at age 10 and forced to live on the streets, he fell into a life
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William Crookes


the 1890s. Until then he may have used a monocle or pocket magnifying glass when necessary. What limitations this imposed upon his psychic investigations we can only imagine." After studying the reports of Florence Cook, the science historian Sherrie Lynne Lyons wrote that the alleged spirit "Katie King" was Cook herself and at other times an accomplice. Regarding Crookes, Lyons wrote "Here was a man with a flawless scientific reputation, who discovered a new element, but could not detect a real live maiden who was masquerading as a
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How to Marry a Millionaire


crooked speculator. Luckily, when she takes a plane from LaGuardia Airport to meet him, she misreads Kansas City for Atlantic City on an airport sign and ends up on the wrong plane. She sits next to a man, also wearing glasses, who thinks she is "quite a strudel" and encourages her to put hers on. It turns out that he is the mysterious Freddie Denmark on his way to Kansas City to find the crooked accountant who got him into trouble with the IRS. He does not have much luck
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The Conjuring 3


...] The Warrens set against the backdrop of "The Hound of Baskerville"". In May 2017, Safran said it would be unlikely that a third installment would be a "haunted house" film. In June 2017, it was announced a third installment was in development, with "The Conjuring 2" co-writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick hired to write the screenplay. In August 2017, Wan told "Entertainment Weekly" that the filmmakers have "been working hard on "The Conjuring 3"",
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Ed and Lorraine Warren


Ed and Lorraine Warren. In 2014, "Annabelle", a supernatural psychological horror film directed by John R. Leonetti was released. It is both a prequel to and spin-off of "The Conjuring" and was inspired by a story of a possessed doll named Annabelle. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, and Alfre Woodard. The 2016 film "The Conjuring 2", a sequel to "The Conjuring", was directed by Wan, with Farmiga and Wilson reprising their roles as Lorraine and Ed, respectively
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Spider-Man 2 (video game)


fires caused by the explosion and then demonstrates a new power punch by defeating three crooks (these power punches are gained when defeating normal enemies, not bosses, and once they are gained, they drain out during combat, which quickly defeats enemies with a single punch). Later, Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter ego, is with his Aunt May at the bank, and goes to the bathroom just as Doctor Octopus and a gang of his robbers hold the bank hostage. Spider-Man pummels his way through
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Fireback (film)


bleached-blonde femme fatale working for "Duffy Collins", who works as a dancer in a nightclub. She tries to seduce "Jack Kaplan", fails and is accidentally killed by "Man with the Golden Hand". Digger "(James Gaines)" is a small-time crook and informer, who leads "Jack Kaplan" towards "Duffy Collins" and is killed for that by the "Man with the Golden Hand". Man with the Golden Hand "(Ruel Vernal)" is a tracksuit
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The Man-Eating Myth


societies exhibit cannibalism. He notes that the development of a "collective prejudice" against a foreign entity provides meaning for the group by conjuring up an opposite who commit social taboos. He also suggests that one society's belief that a foreign society is cannibalistic might arise from an inability to differentiate between the latter's conceptions of the natural and the supernatural. As evidence, he asserts that rumors that the Indigenous Americans of Northeastern Canada were cannibals arose when foreign societies learned of their folkloric beliefs in man-eating giants who lived in
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Darling (2015 American film)


a place where someone once tried conjuring the devil. Darling suddenly stabs the man to death mid-conversation, and begins raving that she is taking revenge on a man named Henry Sullivan who cannot be allowed to live because of what he did to her "that night". Darling tapes a bag over the man’s head, suffocating him, and puts his body in the tub. Darling goes to sleep, clutching the cross necklace to her chest and reciting "Abyssus abyssum invocat". Darling dreams of the dead
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1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France


part, Lazarus required 17 stitches to bad gash above his left eye and would not take any further part, replaced by the man who had seemingly lost his place to the dual Canberra premiership winning prop, Martin Bella. Midway through the second half, Castleford's Australian coach Darryl van der Velde defused a potentially volatile situation by replacing Lee Crooks who had begun to be involved in a number of flare-ups with Kangaroos front rower Steve Roach. Prior to coming off, veteran Crooks who had made his test debut for Great
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