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Pinhead is a fictional character in Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe. He is portrayed in the movies by actor Doug Bradley. Wizard Magazine rated him the 9th greatest villain of all time.[1]

In the original film, Pinhead did not have a name, but was simply credited as the "Lead Cenobite". Pinhead was a name coined by the makeup crew that applied the prosthetics on Bradley to distinguish the Cenobites.

Relic of the Middle Ages

December 28, 1903 by Staff Writer

Picturesque Republic of Monks in the Heart of the in kis'i Empire The idea of an independent republic in the heart of the Turkish empire sounds unreal. Mount Athos.the Holy mountain (as it is commonly called by Greeks and Slavs), consists of 20 monasteries, 11 villages, 250 cells, and 150 aennitages, with a population of some 3,000 monks and as many lay brothers, who are known as kosmiki. or worldlings.

No Moslem save the Sultan's representative, no woman or female animal may enter the sacred territory, and an army of fifty Albanian guards is stationed at Karyas, the capital to keep them out. The mountain is at the extremity of the peninsula of Chalcidice, eighty miles southeast of Salonica.

The government is peculiarly constituted. Each of the monasteries elects a delegate to the synod, and in addition there are four other delegates from the four "imperial" monasteries. These twenty-four elect a president each year. The hitter's only connection with "foreign" relations is to pay the annual tribute to the Sultan. With this exception the monks and hermits are free and under Russian protection.

Ten of the monasteries are known as cenobite (living in common), the others as idiorhymic (living separately. The first, or communist, class is far the stricter. The monks receive all their necessaries from the monastery, take their meals together in the refectory, unil are restricted to the same diet—namely: one daily meal, consisting of bread, vegetables and water.

For the first three days of the great forty day fasts they eat nothing at all if their health permits. They must devote six hours out of the twenty four to religious exercises and twelve on festivals. Many of their services take place in the night and you may see them from your guest chamber flitting about the courts like ghosts, bearing faint flickering lanterns father hands, says a correspondent.

The second, or individual, class of monks live together in their monasteries, but each of them feeds anil clothes himself as he 'pleases. The monastery provides bread and wine, but everything else must be found by the monks themselves. For this each receives a fixed sum according to his rank and office. They elect two or three monks as administrators for one year, but are practically free to order their lives as they please. The cenobites, on the other hand, owe entire obedience to this heguman, or abbot who is elected by them for life.

The monks' cells are, perhaps, the dreariest of human habitations. The walls are covered with dingy whitewash, and the furniture consists of wooden divans, where they snatch short slumbers between the hours of prayer.

The hermits of Mount Athos are entirely distinct from the monks. They live in hats or eaves quite alone, almost like wild animals, and are held In reverence as saintly persons. No one knows exactly how they subsist They will sometimes remain for months in the mountains, and then ;ome down half starved to barter rosaries or carved crosses for a few vegetables. And they take as little thought for their raiment as for their food. You may sometimes see some of them squatting on the rocks, clad only in a long beard.