Two landmark films, Encounters of the Spooky Kind ( 1980 ) and The Dead and the Deadly ( 1983 ) feature Jiang Shi who move in standing jumps towards their victims, as well as Taoist priests with the ability to quell these vampires ( and at times, each other ) through magical spells and charms.

In many fairy tales and ballads, as in Child Ballad # 44, The Two Magicians or Farmer Weathersky, a magical chase occurs where the pursued endlessly takes on forms in an effort to shake off the pursuer, and the pursuer answers with other shape-shifting, as, a dove is answered with a hawk, and a hare with a greyhound.

Two of these cards determine the locations of two magical weapons useful in defeating Strahd: the Holy Symbol and the Sunsword.

Two other similar motifs are the Cup of the Narts (" Nartyamonga "), which appeared at feasts, delivered to each person what he liked best to eat, and which was kept by the bravest of the Narts (" Knights ")-somewhat similar to the Grail-and the magical woman, dressed in white, associated with water, who helps the hero acquire his sword, similar to the Arthurian Lady of the Lake.

Two overarching plotlines exist within the game: The expedition must reclaim their equipment, as many of the items are required to solve puzzles and subquests in the game ; and they must explore Serpent Isle and discover its history to understand the reasons for the magical storms that will destroy the land.

He returns in the Season Two premiere, taking a bite out of Emerald Empress ' magical weapon, the Emerald Eye of Ekron, and accidentally putting himself into a coma.

Two belonged to the warrior Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, " El Cid ", both with magical powers according to the medieval epical poem " Cantar del mio Cid ".

Two women, Hirsig and Shumway ( her magical name was Sister Cypris after Aphrodite ), both became pregnant by Crowley at the Abbey.

Two years after that magical 1985 season Mississippi State unveiled the most dramatic advancement for its baseball facilities ever ‹ an impressive $ 3. 5 million project that would give MSU the biggest baseball stadium in the league.

A fan described Between Two Lives as " an album packed with raw emotion, driving guitars and passionate vocal deliveries ".

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.

Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Two metabolites ( 1, and 2 ) ) of p-aminobenzoic acid ( PABA ) which act as cofactors for the hydroxylation of aniline by acid-fast bacteria are biosynthesized from Aj.

Two members of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial.

Two of these are in or near Dallas and the others away from the vicinity.

The Plus Two remain at a fixed position with drums and guitar but the quartet covers the stage with a batch of instruments ranging from tuba to tambourine, and the beat is solid.

Two noted troupes from overseas will get the fall dance season off to a sparkling start.

Two related strands of research on altruism have emerged from traditional evolutionary analyses and from game theory.

Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

In the Hall of Two Truths, the deceased's heart was weighed against the Shu feather of truth and justice taken from the headdress of the goddess Ma ' at.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

Two results which follow from the axiom are that " no set is an element of itself ," and that " there is no infinite sequence ( a < sub > n </ sub >) such that a < sub > i + 1 </ sub > is an element of a < sub > i </ sub > for all i. "

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).

Two aediles were from the ranks of plebeians and the other were called curule aediles ( aediles curules ).

Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

Two small sanctuaries, with terracotta votive offerings of Graeco-Phoenician age, lie not far off, but the location of the great shrines of Adonis and Aphrodite have not been identified ( M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, i. ch. 1 ).

Two other operas of little success and longterm importance were composed in 1789, and one great popular success La cifra ( The Cipher ).

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

Two awards are presented each year, one to a Houston Astro and one to a St. Louis Cardinal, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being " a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.

Two differences between the two are that monopolistic competition produces heterogeneous products and that monopolistic competition involves a great deal of non-price competition, which is based on subtle product differentiation.

Two historical events during the nineteenth century had a great effect in the further development of physical geography.

Two public figures claimed in interviews that one of the main causes for poverty in Africa is a low average intelligence, an idea which caused great controversy.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

Two great innovators of early 20th-century music, Schoenberg and Stravinsky, both wrote violin concertos.

Early works by Hals, such as Two Boys Playing and Singing and the aforementioned Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia ( 1616 ), show him as a careful draughtsman capable of great finish, yet spirited withal.

Two weeks later, however, his great excitement was crushed by his daughter Mair's death from appendicitis.

Two operettas, a piano concerto and a number of published pianoforte pieces and songs do little more than show how great was his promise .< ref >

The Moriquendi were regarded as greatly inferior by the Calaquendi, who lived in the Light of the Two Trees, and had also received great knowledge and powers by living with the Valar and Maiar.

Two years after leaving the conservatory he wrote his first opera -- it was based on Alessandro Manzoni's great novel The Betrothed ( I promessi sposi ) -- and it was as an opera composer that he eventually found fame.

Two are notable ; one is a full-length, stately and dignified, in which he wears the green cross of the order of Alcantara and holds a wand, the badge of his office as master of the horse, the other, a great equestrian portrait in which he is flatteringly represented as a field marshal during action.

Two daughters, Herse and Pandrosos obeyed, but Aglauros looked and saw the child lying next to a great snake.

Two days later, Irving repeated the same speech in Halle before a group of neo-Nazis, and praised Rudolf Hess as " that great German martyr, Rudolf Hess ".

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

After propagation of the Ennead, the cult of Ra-identified with Atum-saw a great resurgence until being superseded by the worship of Horus and the identification of the two as Ra-harakhty ( Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons ).

Two great American theologians, the brothers Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr were born in Wright City in 1892 and 1894 respectively.

Two Homeric studies, executed for a friend, were shown to John Flaxman, who bestowed on them such high commendation that in 1807 Baily came to London and placed himself as a pupil under the great sculptor.

Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood " in Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.

* Two great scientific authors from the Song period:

* Cunna and Salabaccho: Two courtesans, they are considered by Cleon to be great examples of service to Athens ( line 765 ).