(Strangulated) Cybil & Doom's Dress

Lore
"Help! The dress... is killing me!" Cybil fought against the fabric which coiled about her like a python and cut into her body. The poor man had only been able to afford it because it was cursed, yet the unscrupulous peddler did not reveal that fact. She desperately tore away at it, but she could not free herself from its suffocating grip. Several hours later, her family found her lifeless form... and the dress was nowhere to be seen.

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