A mysterious plague has swept the land of Parthoris, taking the sanity of those it does not kill.

There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe.

In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.

It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called domains brought together by a mysterious force known only as " The Dark Powers ".

An example is Lucy Pevensie's discovery of the wardrobe, Narnia and a mysterious lamp post in the woods in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which creates a sense of suspense about an unknown land she is discovering for the first time.

Ribaldi / Rigoletto-Ribaldi is a deformed, mysterious man who comes to the town of Castle Gate and, supposedly, begins buying people's homes and land.

The final period of Roman Britain saw an apparent increase in attacks by land and sea, the raiders including the Picts, Scotti and the mysterious Attacotti whose origins are not certain.

Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East.

According to the Greek mythology, Colchis was a fabulously wealthy land situated on the mysterious periphery of the heroic world.

In this context, about 982, Erik sailed to a somewhat mysterious and little-known land.

She is intrigued by native cultures, living close to the land, but also things that are mystical, symbolic and mysterious.

Brettonais from the village of Plouha ..." Wretched though she was, some of the mystery of that mysterious land still clung to her ... the gravity of her glance, the innocence and primitive mind ... there were dark corners of Celtic brooding ... a little scarecrow.

Consequently, it is likely that during his familiarity with the Crown, that King John II would have purchased maps and charts from Martin Behaim, which might have depicted mysterious passages in an unknown land.

The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World — Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.

Guts, known throughout the land as the mysterious Black Swordsman, hunts the Apostles of the God Hand with no regard to those who become caught in the conflict.

Even today, after centuries of modernization, as China ’ s iron curtains, forbid the world the view of Tibet, it is with the eyes of these explorers that we still see this mysterious land.

After Lea's mysterious disappearance in 1934, and Cliff's death in 1937, Cliff's fourth wife, Charlotte Phillips Durant, sold the land to George W. Mason, an automotive executive.

Enticed by the thought of returning to his own world with a cache of treasure, Wario departs on his quest, in search of the music boxes and the many treasures of this mysterious land.

As the official description states, " A twist on the old " rescue the princess " plot, this game has you entering a mysterious land of fantasy to save your beloved from evil.

However, Lin is taken captive by the remnant of Jakoh's forces and is sent off to the mysterious Kingdom of Shura, a land of warriors ruled by three overlords who have all mastered the ways of Hokuto Ryūken, a martial art which branched off from the same clan alongside Hokuto Shinken.

A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land.

After hearing that Cadillac and Clearwater have gone north to the land of the mysterious ' Iron Masters ' ( and that Cadillac used magic to copy his technical abilities ), Steve stows away on an Iron Master vessel.

The note explained that Moiraine was a prisoner and that Mat, Thom and a third member were to enter the land via a mysterious spire called The Tower of Ghenjei.

Fusang or Fousang () refers to several different entities in ancient Chinese literature, often either a mythological tree or a mysterious land to the East.

Newsweek called it, " a film as odd and mysterious as its subjects, and quite unforgettable.

The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican friar, Annio da Viterbo ( d. 1502 ), the cabalist and orientalist, now remembered mainly for literary forgeries.

This group of writers became known as the " Lovecraft Circle ", since they all freely borrowed elements of Lovecraft's stories – the mysterious books with disturbing names, the pantheon of ancient alien entities, such as Cthulhu and Azathoth, and eldritch places, such as the New England town of Arkham and its Miskatonic University – for use in their own works with Lovecraft's encouragement.

The programmer subculture of hackers has stories about several hardware hacks in its folklore, such as a mysterious ' magic ' switch attached to a PDP-10 computer in MIT's AI lab, that, when turned off, crashed the computer.

Marlow is an English sailor who speaks of a time when he gained a position to captain a steamboat for an ivory trading company ; his job was to transport supplies, company personnel, and ivory-up and down a large river that snakes its way through a mysterious wilderness.

Shigeru Egami, Chief Instructor of Shotokan Dojo, opined " that the majority of followers of karate in overseas countries pursue karate only for its fighting techniques ... Movies and television ... depict karate as a mysterious way of fighting capable of causing death or injury with a single blow ... the mass media present a pseudo art far from the real thing.

A mysterious interest appears to be attached to it, and now that so many precautions have been resorted to, and so much difficulty attends its inspection, the crowd is enormously enhanced, and the policemen at either end of the covered entrance have much trouble in restraining the struggling and impatient multitude.

Its fame rests, in particular, on the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined.

Azazel may be a wilderness-demon, but its identity is mysterious.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

Owing to its remoteness, the Pole is sometimes identified with a mysterious mountain of ancient Islamic tradition called Mount Qaf ( Jabal Qaf ), the " farthest point of the earth ".

The series focuses on the heroine, Hitomi Kanzaki, and her adventures after she is transported to the world of Gaea, a mysterious planet where she can see Earth and its moon in the sky.

Because of its " graphic " nature, this tale has at times been translated incompletely, as in John Payne's translation, where Alibech's sexual awakening is left untranslated and is accompanied with this footnote: " The translators regret that the disuse into which magic has fallen, makes it impossible to render the technicalities of that mysterious art into tolerable English ; they have therefore found it necessary to insert several passages in the original Italian.

Despite the importance of the House of Gruyères its beginnings remain quite mysterious.

In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413, the court ruled that sex was " a great and mysterious motive force in human life ", and that its expression in literature was protected by the First Amendment.

* Francesco Petrarca ( often considered the first man of the Renaissance ) first visits Rome, to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.

As a consequence, its surface is relatively young, with a complex geological history revealed in intricate and mysterious cryovolcanic and tectonic terrains.

* Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a common form taken by the mysterious monster in Stephen King's novel It and its film adaptation ..

The Scarifyers: The Devil of Denge Marsh, by Paul Morris, is a light-hearted radio play ( on CD as a Cosmic Hobo publication, 2007 ) whose heroes ( played by Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy ) are engaged in foiling the return of this watery timeless horror and thwarting the intentions of its mysterious ( and sometimes bizarre ) human acolytes.

It is noted for its 867 monoliths ( Moais ), which are huge ( up to twenty meters high ) and mysterious, expressionless faces sculpted of volcanic stone.

Meanwhile a rapidly-expanding race, which the Culture calls the Affront ( because of its systematic sadism towards subject species and its own females and junior males, despite being relatively advanced ), tries to exploit the Excession by infiltrating a store of mothballed Culture warships and using them to claim control of the mysterious object.