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Author: ParadiscaCorbasi

Jun 19th 2011 at 1:18:49 PM

[[AC: Music]]
*  The song "Strange Fruit" is about the American South's unfortunate history of mobs of white men lynching black men (and women and children) for any infraction real or perceived.

[[AC: {{Film}}]]
* ''{{Chicago}}'' The Hunyak's "disappearing act"  is her dying by hanging for murder.

[[AC: Folklore and Mythology]]
* Arachne, after getting on the wrong side of a Athena for bragging about her weaving, hangs herself in a tree. The goddess takes pity on her, brings her BackFromTheDead and turns her into a spider.

[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
* "An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. Turns out [[spoiler: The entire story is an ImagineSpot and the person is about to die from hanging]].
* Dr. Alexander Kellis committed suicide by hanging in the ''{{Newsflesh}}'' series, distraught over the gay-bashing death of his husband as well as the ruination of his career and the fact that his work had contributed to the events of the [[ZombieApocalypse Rising]].

[[AC: LiveActionTV]]
*  The "Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" story was adapted for ''TheTwilightZone''.