I serve on a cross, to prevent loss. What am I?

Answer: A scarecrow.

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I stab you and I cut you, yet I mean you no harm! What am I?
I stand when I am sitting and I jump when I am walking. What am I?
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I surround you but I'm not clothes. I am everywhere but I don't take up space. I'm not always here, yet you can use a man-made form of me. I can go through glass but the glass will look just the same. What am I?
I take months to build, seconds to destroy, and years to rebuild. What am I?
I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I?
I truly am cause for alarm. When you see me you can lose your house or your life. When you hear me you can also lose your job. What am I?
I walk with you almost every day, yet you never notice me. You step on me, but you never say sorry. What am I?
I was born a blonde. I lived with the brown hair. I died a redhead. And buried as a brunette. What am I?
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
I was once alive, a creature of flesh and bone. I did not survive, now I am but stone. What am I?
I wear a huge dark cloak, not unlike the one of a wizard, I am the opposite of warm, I don't walk-I float, I prefer to be sad, not happy. I appear in clouds, not in the sky, I can only be extinguished by a happy spell, I will take your soul, if you cross my path. I am a foul creature, amongst the foulest, you might call me a light extinguisher. What am I?