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| English | Russian |
| Joanna Southcott's Box | ларец Иоанны Сауткотт (A locked wooden box left by the prophetess not to be opened until a time of national crisis, and then only in the presence of all the bishops in England) |
| Pandora's box A jar, sent by the gods to Pandora, which she was forbidden to open and which loosed a swarm of evils upon mankind when she opened it out of curiosity | ящик Пандоры |