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Dust (The Twilight Zone)
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"Dust" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone
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, sells a bag of "magic dust" to the condemned man's father. The condemned man had just been found guilty for murdering a child. The dust is nothing more than ordinary dirt collected from the ground, but the peddler insists it will spread good throughout the crowd and have them feel sympathy for the one condemned to death. At the plot's conclusion, the man's father cries out and starts sprinkling the dust everywhere. Surprisingly the noose breaks. The parents of the little girl accidentally killed by the condemned man then decide not to let the hanging continue. As both father and son return home, the peddler discovers he's also affected by the "magic" after throwing his gold pieces from the sale of the Magic dust to the poor children of the town, laughing about it afterward.
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
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A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.-Scope and job:...
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Hanging
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...
, sells a bag of "magic dust" to the condemned man's father. The condemned man had just been found guilty for murdering a child. The dust is nothing more than ordinary dirt collected from the ground, but the peddler insists it will spread good throughout the crowd and have them feel sympathy for the one condemned to death. At the plot's conclusion, the man's father cries out and starts sprinkling the dust everywhere. Surprisingly the noose breaks. The parents of the little girl accidentally killed by the condemned man then decide not to let the hanging continue. As both father and son return home, the peddler discovers he's also affected by the "magic" after throwing his gold pieces from the sale of the Magic dust to the poor children of the town, laughing about it afterward.