Pippa Middleton

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.

British Celebrity

Emanuel Swedenborg

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Swedish Scientist

Andie MacDowell

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

American Actress

Roger Moore

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

English Actor

Joe Johnston

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

American Director

Susan B. Anthony

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

American Activist

Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

American Politician

Richard DeVos

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

American Businessman

James Arthur

One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.

British Musician

Effigies are often used by protestors to symbolize their disapproval of a public figure.

Protest Symbolism

In some cultures, burning an effigy can be part of a traditional ritual or celebration.

Cultural Rituals

Burning an effigy often conveys contempt and can be a powerful symbol of protest or rejection.

Negative Connotation

Effigies can serve as historical artifacts, representing people from past eras, often in museums.

Historical Artifact

Museums may use wax effigies to create lifelike displays of famous individuals.

Wax Museums

Effigies can be part of funerary customs, representing the deceased in memorial practices.

Funerary Use

 by the light of his own burning effigies. The political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were stunning. Previously, both Whigs and Democrats had included Northern and Southern lawmakers united around various issues, but now slavery became a dividing factor that could not be ignored.

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 the burning of the effigy of the windmill. So -- People are anti-everything, and we've got to keep all the options on the table. What can a country like the UK do on the supply side? Well, the options are, I'd say, these power renewables,

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 in the land of terrassa a remote region of Indonesia cliffside effigies and graves testified to a culture as fascinated with death as ancient Egypt funerals are the most important rituals

Effigy

Protest Symbolism

Cultural Rituals

Negative Connotation

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