in order to emerge as adults who are no longer cowed by their nightmares.

IT is as much a coming-of-age as a horror novel as it takes readers through the friends’ experiences and fears in Derry while exploring the power of memory in survivors of trauma and the need to return to those horrible circumstances

which assumes different forms in order to play on their individual fears. Once these kids grow up and forget about IT, the creature resurfaces 27 years later, and the now-adult Losers are called back to Derry to fulfill a childhood oath sworn to kill IT if it ever returned.

the ‘50s and ‘80s, when a group of children are being terrorized by this otherworldly monster as part of a 27-year cycle in Derry, Maine. The children, banded together by Pennywise as individuals who prefer “to live alone,” call themselves the Losers’ Club and fight back against this creature,

The religious fervour and the oppressing atmosphere of the homestead create a tough opposition for Martta’s love story.

in a way that is rough and naturalistic but at the same time very lyrical. Against the backdrop of the powerful and extreme nature of Lapland and the depressing life of a closed community.

where people are torn between feverish religiousness and strong sexual instincts. Martta falls is love with a Sami reindeer herder and their brief and unconventional love story is described

Sit is the modern Burmese word for "army" or "war"; the word sittuyin can be translated as "representation of the four characteristics of army"—chariot, elephant, cavalry and infantry.

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Archaeological and literary sources indicate hnefatafl may have been played on a 13×13 or an 11×11 board.

The rules of the game were never explicitly recorded, and only playing pieces and fragmentary boards are extant, so it is not known for sure how the game was played. If dice were in fact used, nothing has been recorded about how they were employed.

The condition is believed to be treatable through Christian prayers or elaborate traditional rituals designed to exorcise the imbibed demonic elements.

Ogun oru is characterized by its occurrence, a female preponderance, the perception of an underlying feud between the sufferer's earthly spouse and a "spiritual" spouse, and the event of bewitchment through eating while dreaming.

he will grant them a wish, but then he will visit them frequently although he is harmless. There are talismans that can provide protection from Mokthi and one way is to put one's husband's hat near the pillow while sleeping. Mokthi or Makthi in Albanian means "Nightmare".

Eino Hosia is the only Finnish author who had gained recognition before the wars of 1939–1945 and lost his life in them.

of the Winter War in Taipale and Vuosalmi. Hosia had already described dreamlike visions and exceptional people in his previous works. Now he entered reality, but reality was the landscape of Tuonela, the war front “black, ruined and strange”.

as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as "the greatest war novel of all time".