Induction into the Fourteenth Order of Temperance required a somewhat macabre price: a gold coin was placed on one side of the scales, while on the other the initiant’s hand was cut and allowed to bleed freely into the dish until the scales balanced.

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Jesse Maryland thought she the personal statement was fine, and the evening gown looked great on her. But she knew her talent act was unstopable. Balancing a dozen stacked silver goblets while riding a unicycle nobody else would whoa deja vu.

A penny saved is a penny earned. Specifically a penny earned by the tiny goblins who designed this bank to trick you and take all of your pennies.

Dave Leeman thought his musical rendition of the Krampus Story for the town holiday pageant was going pretty well, until he seemed to lose the crowd at “beats naughty kids and takes 'em straight to hell.”

North American red-tailed hawk, preserved It was a beautiful thing to watch Maurice at work. Albert Gilley liked nothing more than to sit on the roof of his apartment building watching his bird gyre in the evening air, then swoop down and pluck an unsuspecting toy poodle or Yorkshire terrier up out of the park. So graceful.

As he watched the herd, Lev Brewster looked out over the sea of prairie grass, gentle gold waves as far as he'd ever roamed. He saw a picture of a tall ship in a book once and now he carved them from cattle horns, dreaming of when he'd have enough money to take a trip on one of those ships.

This pediment, featuring a carving of the goddess Athena, was taken from a boarding house in which Edgar Allen Poe was thought to have composed The Raven.