From the late 13th century onwards funeral effigies of monarchs and other royal persons were carried in a funeral procession on the coffin beneath a canopy. The effigy was generally close to the ...

This inversion of power structures was most vividly expressed through the construction and destruction of effigies representing adversaries, a practice embedded in the communal and ritualistic ...

People celebrate it by burning effigies of ten-head Ravana, symbolizing burning of evil, greed, etc. However, Ravana is still alive today in various forms. Are they not Ravanas who carry out ...

But the stories didn’t talk about the effigies. In 1956, a white mob rioted in Mansfield and hung three effigies — one on Main Street and two at the high school — to scare Black students away.

Sadly, last Wednesday John Kezdy of The Effigies was killed in a bike accident. He was 64. Apparently, an Amazon delivery van illegally stopped in a bike lane on Wednesday afternoon in the Chicago ...

The Effigieswill release their first album in 17 years. It's also the final album with John Kezdy who was tragically killed in a bike accident in 2023. The record is called Burned and it's out October ...