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Afflatus, revelation given (typically to a human or other mortal being) by a deity. Afterlife, a theoretical world inhabited by humans after death. Agalma, a votive statue made with the intent to please the gods. Agartha, a land at the center of the Earth. Age of Aquarius, an astrological age of massive change.
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not. [1]
From titular antagonists ("Carrie," "Dracula," "It") to cryptic clues ("Saw," "Jaws," "Slither"), horror captures the art of the tiny title like no other genre.
Sometimes people do dumb things. Dord: A nonexistent English word, supposedly meaning "density", which was listed in the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary from 1935 to 1939. The Dozens: A usually good-natured African American game in which two competitors, usually male, exchange trash-talk until one has no comeback. Duck test
含倫角 - lit. "oral sex corner" which the character 倫 is a substitute of the profanity word 𡳞 meaning dick. Now known as Yau Lung Kok (游龍角). Hamam: The name of 2 Turkish villages. In Arabic "ḥamām" means "douche". Hamm: Those pigs sure aren't happy about this place. Hammerfest: A town in Norway.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror [2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).