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    Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings...
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    Spring Heel Jack is an English electronic music duo, consisting of John Coxon and Ashley Wales. Formed in 1993 in London, England, Spring Heel Jack began...
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  • Spring-heeled Jack (also Springheel Jack, Spring-heel'd Jack, etc.) is a Victorian character, notorious for his frightening leaps. Spring-heeled Jack...
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  • Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of Epping Forest is a 1950 British play by the writer Geoffrey Carlile and the actor-manager Tod Slaughter who was known...
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    1830s claimed that Lord Waterford was the main suspect behind the "Spring-Heeled Jack" phenomenon. However, as that character's acts continued after his...
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  • Spring Heeled Jack (known alternatively for a time as Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A.) is a third wave ska band based out of New Haven, Connecticut. The band...
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  • The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack is a steampunk novel by the British writer Mark Hodder, the first novel in the Burton & Swinburne series; it won...
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  • Member Ben Watt wrote the song's lyrics while electronic music duo Spring Heel Jack (John Coxon and Ashley Wales) composed the music and produced the track...
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  • The Velocette Spring Heeled Jack is a motorcycle built by Velocette at Hall Green, Birmingham, England. This famous works KSS 350cc, sprung frame, Velocette...
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  • 68 Million Shades... (category Spring Heel Jack albums)
    68 Million Shades... is the second album by the English musical duo Spring Heel Jack, released in 1996. It was released in the United States in February...
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  • The Legend and Bizarre Crimes of Spring Heeled Jack is a non-fiction book by Peter Haining, published by Frederick Muller in 1977. It is notable for being...
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  • Disappeared (album) (category Spring Heel Jack albums)
    English electronic duo Spring Heel Jack. The album was released by Thirsty Ear on 22 August 2000. Keyboard wrote that Spring Heel Jack "slams together big...
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    Penny dreadful (redirect from Jack Harkaway)
    characters such as Sweeney Todd, Dick Turpin, Varney the Vampire, and Spring-heeled Jack. The BBC called penny dreadfuls "a 19th-century British publishing...
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    of Spring-Heeled Jack: From Victorian Legend to Steampunk Hero. Inner Traditions. ISBN 9781620554975. Dixon, Kevin (19 April 2018). "Spring-Heel Jack terrifies...
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    treatment of the Spring-heeled Jack character as a masked avenger may have inspired some aspects of Zorro's heroic persona. Spring Heeled Jack was portrayed...
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    The Smiths Soul Asylum Souled American Epic Soundtracks Spizzenergi Spring Heel Jack Sufjan Stevens Stiff Little Fingers Straitjacket Fits Strange Boys...
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  • intelligent dance music, including notable names like Squarepusher and Spring Heel Jack, and later London Elektricity and Landslide, also showed interest in...
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    Ensemble; and made contributions to the drum and bass album Disappeared by Spring Heel Jack. Other musicians he has worked with include bassist Miroslav Vitouš...
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  • David S. Ware, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Rob Reddy, Roy Campbell, Spring Heel Jack, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, El-P, Carl Hancock...
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  • Vanara Superstition Spring-Heeled Jack Bukit Timah Monkey Man Urban legend Hanuman Polidoro, Massimo (2002). "Return of Spring-Heeled Jack". Skeptical Inquirer...
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  • (1963-2021), an American professional wrestler Spring-heeled Jack, a creature in Victorian-era English folklore Jack (hero), an archetypal Cornish and English...
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  • Bombscare is an EP by Low and Spring Heel Jack. It was released in 2000 by Tugboat Records. "Bombscare" – 4:31 "Hand So Small" – 3:38 "So Easy (So Far)" –...
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    Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heel Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange Wrestling, Gary Young's Hospital...
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  • also inviting electronica artists DJ Spooky, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Spring Heel Jack, hip-hoppers El-P and Antipop Consortium, and even Slayer drummer Dave...
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    "Jack" was already used to describe another fabled London attacker: "Spring-heeled Jack", who supposedly leapt over walls to strike at his victims and escape...
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  • brought on from exaggerated media hysteria, often compared to the Spring-heeled Jack epidemic from 19th century London. Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled...
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  • Jamaica) Speedy Keen Spencer Davis Group Spooky Tooth Spread Eagle Spring Heel Jack (Island Independent) Startled Insects Steel Pulse Stereo MCs (Gee Street/Island)...
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    Darby has been linked to the Spring-heeled Jack legend. In Victorian times, the legendary character known as 'Spring-heeled Jack' was reportedly spotted at...
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  • Shy FX Si Begg Sigma Slipmatt Ed Solo Source Direct Spectrum Spor Spring Heel Jack Squarepusher Stamina MC Stanton Warriors State of Mind Step 13 Fox...
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  • Alabama 3 J Pac Grooverider Goldie Fabio Lionrock Red Snapper LTJ Bukem Spring Heel Jack Baby D Nicolette Andrew Weatherall Lamb Ingrid Schroeder The Chemical...
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