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The imp that turned to stone can still be found sitting atop his stone column in the Angel Choir.
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Another legend has the escaped imp turned to stone just outside the cathedral, and sharp-eyed visitors can spot it on a South outside wall.
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* Cespenar is an imp who can refer to his " secret recipes " in order to forge wonderful weapons from special bits of items that the PC collects along his journey.
The theme of the bottle imp can be found in the German legend Spiritus familiaris by the Brothers Grimm as well.
Restrictions of volume and weights that had previously compelled manufacturers to package products to rounded imperial sizes despite metric labelling, for example packaging a soft drink can as a rounded 13 imp fl oz but labelling it as 375 ml, were removed in 2008.
imp and still
Even if the imp was successful in getting the friendship it sought, it often still played pranks and jokes on its friend, either out of boredom or simply because this was the nature of the imp.
After being attacked by an imp, he rushes back to the base where he sees the demonic spaceship still hovering above it and realizes what has happened.
The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated, " The Retford imp was, and still is, one of the most fondly admired figures in the game ... the rolling gait and big sad eyes make him Chaplinesque – and like all clowns, there is pathos behind the public image ... At times, genius sat on Randall's shoulders – the only trouble was it would not stop fidgeting ".
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This was the object of the 1891 story The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson, which told of an imp contained in a bottle that would grant the owner their every wish, the catch being that the owner's soul would be sent to hell if they didn't sell the bottle to a new owner before their death.
However, Culp underestimates the Shade, and is tricked into allowing a small shadow imp loyal to Shade to be absorbed into his own shadow, leading to a battle of wills in which Shade draws all the darkness into himself ( adding Culp's shadow's might to it, augmented by the Wise Fools ritual ), leaving Culp powerless.
After this, only three more Bat-Mite stories were published in the pre-Crisis DC Universe: two Bat-Mite / Mr. Mxyzptlk team ups in World's Finest Comics # 152 ( August 1965 ) and # 169 ( September 1967 ) ( which were not edited by Schwartz but by Mort Weisinger ), and " Bat-Mite's New York Adventure " from Detective Comics # 482 ( February – March 1979 ), in which the imp visits the DC Comics offices and insists that he be given his own feature in a Batman comic.
One such local word with German origins is " butcher ", the name given to a 200 ml ( 7 imp fl oz ) beer glass, which is believed to be derived from the German becher, meaning a cup or mug.
imp and found
Apparently the parishioners refused to give him a Christian burial because a " hairy little imp " was found on a glass plate among his possessions.
Voloshin found the name Gabriakh in the book Demonomanie des Sorciers by Jean Bodin, where it belonged to an imp, protecting people from evil spirits.
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Kappamaki, () a kind of Hosomaki filled with cucumber, is named after the Japanese legendary water imp fond of cucumbers called the kappa.
" Other family nicknames for Anastasia were " Malenkaya ," meaning " little ( one )," or " shvibzik ," the Russian word for " imp.
The density of each is around 0. 87 g / mL ( 7. 26 lb / U. S. gallon or 8. 72 lb / imp gallon ) and thus is less dense than water.
Lucius took the title Parthicus Maximus, and he and Marcus were hailed as imperatores again, earning the title ' imp.
Lucius took the title ' Medicus ', and the emperors were again hailed as imperatores, becoming ' imp.
* Installation of a 160-gallon collapsible neoprene auxiliary fuel tank fixed to the top of the bomb bay, and support mounts in the bomb bay, crawlway and lower turret area to increase fuel capacity from 646 to 1, 141 U. S. gallons ( 538 – 950 imp gal ; 2, 445 – 4, 319 L )
Pollard is noted for his short stature, which had him playing child roles well into his twenties ( including on Star Trek, where he played one of the inhabitants of the planet of children in the episode " Miri ") and resulted in a recurring role as the diminutive trans-dimensional imp Mister Mxyzptlk in two episodes of the Superboy television series.
* Economy: 25 imp miles per gallon, manufacturer claimed 30 imp miles per gallon at 70 miles per hour.
He is created by Batman's arch-foe the Joker when the villain steals the powers of the fifth-dimensional imp Mr. Mxyzptlk.
When Mxyzptlk regains his powers, the imp allows Bizarro and several other beings to remain on the restored Earth.
Bombers are often combined with imp spirals ( see below ) to gain extra resiliency against replicators.
turned and stone
Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.
Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.
In the second account given by the Thebans, when Alcmene died, she was turned from human form to a stone.
At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.
Palutena bestowed the people with light to make them happy, but Medusa hated the humans, dried up their crop, and turned them to stone.
After her soldiers had been turned to stone by Medusa, Palutena was defeated in battle, and imprisoned deep inside the sky temple.
A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus in Asia Minor and either turned to stone as she wept or killed herself.
Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.
Joseph Smith, Jr. ( who would later become the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ) said that on the night of September 21, 1823, Moroni appeared to Smith and told him about the Golden Plates that were buried ( in a stone box ) a few miles from Smith's home ; visited Smith various times over the course of the next six years ; and after Smith translated a portion of the writing on the plates ( either one-third or two-thirds ; accounts vary ) as the Book of Mormon, Smith turned the plates back over to Moroni.
Better known is Tiola shrine-site of legendary stone dog which turned towards the direction where enemy of Roviana was coming from.
He sacrificed his life for the sake of his people and they poured a stone pile over his grave which later turned into the Ural Mountains.
The cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped rock outcrop, reputedly turned to stone by a monk from Glastonbury.
However, in other versions Echo cries until only her voice and her bones remain, then turned into stone, roaming forever to haunt the earth.
The site dates from 3100 – 2500 BC and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara Brae were forced to build with stone, a readily available material that could be worked easily and turned into items for use within the household.
She told Frederick Ponsonby, " I feel as if I had been turned into stone, unable to cry, unable to grasp the meaning of it all.
It was during this period, at different times and places in the Greek world, that the use of dressed and polished stone replaced the wood in these early temples, but the forms and shapes of the old wooden styles were retained, just as if the wooden structures had turned to stone, thus the designation petrification for this process.
A legend told at Carnac states that its stones were once pagan soldiers who had been turned into stone by Cornelius, who was fleeing from them.
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