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  • Todas estas acções que o carro toma são controladas através do site octaviarc. nl, e qualquer pessoa pode escolher que tipo de susto dar a quem estiver a passar.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Red 2009

  • Todas estas acções que o carro toma são controladas através do site octaviarc. nl, e qualquer pessoa pode escolher que tipo de susto dar a quem estiver a passar.

    Skoda Octavia Red 2009

  • Mi mama vive en Roatán por lo que la llame para ver como estaba, y pues igual fuera del susto estaba bien.

    Global Voices in English » Honduras: Strong Earthquake Shakes Country 2009

  • Curanderos and other traditional healers still treat illnesses such as evil eye, susto, and soul loss through a combination of ritual and herbal remedies, and popular beliefs about the curing powers of saints and local virgins continue to be widespread. 5

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Susto, susto, the old man kept whispering to himself.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Images began to fly past at alarming speed: the old man in white, waving a fan of feathers, whispering, “Susto, susto.”

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Likewise, a sudden fright or shock allowed the tonalli to escape — a belief that has survived in the present form of the folk illness susto.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Images began to fly past at alarming speed: the old man in white, waving a fan of feathers, whispering, “Susto, susto.”

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Susto, susto, the old man kept whispering to himself.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • En un repunte que recuerda el caso de Bob Kennedy, Buchanan puede dar un susto a Dole y aun a Clinton.

    My Response to Lanny Davis 2008

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