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    The Curse of the Colonel (Japanese: カーネルサンダースの呪い, romanisation: Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) is a 1985 Japanese urban legend. According to the legend, a sports...
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    with a demon child. The demon child is actually a depiction of the character Ten from the anime Urusei Yatsura. The Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い, Kāneru...
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    A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune...
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    the 2020 short film A Recipe for Seduction. The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league developed an urban legend of the "Curse of the Colonel"...
    70 KB (6,640 words) - 07:47, 22 July 2024
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    Randy Bass (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
    division, and receiving 78.6% of the vote. Bass is also famous in Japan for the "Curse of the Colonel". Following the 1985 Central League Pennant victory...
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    hordes of Japanese media snap photos at arm's length. As with many other underachieving baseball teams, a curse is believed to lurk over the Tigers....
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    United States, opened by KFC founder Colonel Sanders and his wife, Claudia, in 1968. Colonel Sanders opened the restaurant after he had grown unhappy...
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    The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse in Major League Baseball (MLB) derived from the 86-year championship drought of the Boston Red...
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  • The Curse of the Black Sox (also known as the Curse of Shoeless Joe) (1919–2005) was a superstition or "scapegoat" cited as one reason for the failure...
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    Manchester Pusher (category History of Greater Manchester)
    The Manchester Pusher is the name given to a hypothetical serial killer, or individual, alleged to be responsible for the deaths of a number of people...
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  • 2023 Japan Series (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    November 5, 2023, Hanshin won the series in seven games, thus ending the 38-year Curse of the Colonel. Koji Chikamoto was named the series' Most Valuable Player...
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  • sports-related curse is a superstitious belief in the effective action of some malevolent power, that is used to explain the failures or misfortunes of specific...
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  • Orix Buffaloes, breaking the Curse of the Colonel in the process. 1985 World Series Curse of the Colonel 1985年日本シリーズ試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional...
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  • The Curse of Coogan's Bluff (also known as the Curse of Eddie Grant) (1958–2010) was a baseball-related superstition that allegedly prevented the San...
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    "10 great moments in baseball superstition history".link (#6 is the Curse of the Colonel) AP Worldstream (18 September 2003) "Japanese man drowns during...
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    British big cats refers to the subject of reported sightings of non-native, typically large felids feral in the United Kingdom. Many of these creatures have...
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  • break out of the slump. Curse of the Bambino Curse of the Billy Goat Curse of the Black Sox Curse of Rocky Colavito Curse of the Colonel Curse of Coogan's...
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    by witnesses as a huge beam of white light, reminiscent of a locomotive headlamp. The phenomenon has been featured on the television series Unsolved Mysteries...
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    historian of crime and the reporting of crime at the University of Exeter, have stated the view that the Croydon Cat Killer case was an example of a moral...
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  • supposed experience with the supernatural. Each episode features claims of encounters at reportedly haunted locations all over the United States, as well...
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