Within a piece of relatively popular literature, an author could speak of supernatural causes both monotheistically and polytheistically. |
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Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts, or murabitun. |
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She is preoccupied with the supernatural, in this particular instance ghostly presences. |
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Seduction Cinema serves this dark tale of supernatural seduction on a silver platter. |
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During his lifetime, his visits to mediums, holdings of seances, and hosts of other supernatural predilections remained guarded secrets. |
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A showman might have exploited the discovery by presenting it to an audience and claiming it was evidence of some supernatural agency. |
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Yet she returns from these states of self-hypnosis riven with supernatural pleasure and shot through with natural pain. |
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Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects. |
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A mentalist is a performer who uses trickery and deception to create the illusion of having paranormal or supernatural powers. |
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For the scholastic this is of course a supernatural end, a life of grace in this world and beatitude in the next. |
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All religions have confused people by involving a power or a supernatural person known as god. |
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Those who believe in a supernatural power know that there is a further existence after the shell they are in dies. |
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The monk's legendary alter ego was a rebel against his feudal leaders, fighting with supernatural strength, cunning, and skills. |
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However, these serials depict only the macabre and fearful aspects of these supernatural characters. |
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His supernatural status was confirmed by a golden thigh, the gift of bilocation, and the capacity to recall his previous incarnations. |
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Rural dwellers have traditionally believed in the existence of a variety of supernatural beings. |
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Had we stuck with the supernatural explanation, we would never have advanced beyond blood letting or exorcisms to get the evil spirits out. |
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The malevolent exercise of supposed supernatural powers, especially by women, attributed to a connection with the devil or evil spirits. |
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These characters may be incarnates of some supernatural evil, but it's not likely. |
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You follow the trail all the way back to, yep, supernatural evil, a hidden dark lord, whatever. |
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He has the intellect and cultivation of one, and the survival skills and supernatural instincts of the other. |
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Evil shamans involve spirits and have what we would call supernatural powers. |
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For many years I had a keen interest in the supernatural, UFOs, cryptozoology, etc. |
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The excellence of the collection can be demonstrated by the way she deals with supernatural belief traditions. |
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The recognition, naming or guessing of a supernatural being is one of the examples of traditionary control. |
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He came to deny the accounts of Creation, Noah's Flood, and the supernatural origin of the Ten Commandments. |
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Two popular supernatural figures in Iraqi folklore are the Tanttel and the Su'luwwa. |
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Neither amillennialism nor postmillennialism is inclined to search for God's supernatural intervention as an agent in eschatological events. |
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Furthermore, characters who possess the supernatural qualities of deities are considered to be human. |
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As soon as someone tells us how invocations of the supernatural will help us solve a problem, they will be embraced immediately. |
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And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority. |
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He was deemed invincible and the older generation believed that he had supernatural powers. |
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To my astonishment I found a very entrenched belief in astrology, and other supernatural phenomena. |
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The spiritual and the supernatural, even the gruesome arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. |
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There is great piteousness as well as great fear in the kind of supernatural talent that might allow a person to see the unseen. |
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Just another human with fey ancestry working for the Grey Detective Agency, where we specialized in supernatural problems, magical solutions. |
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The infusion of supernatural elements into human societies is itself a natural phenomenon that has a naturalistic origin and history. |
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For the most part, it's a fairly routine mystery-suspense series with a supernatural gimmick, executed competently but unremarkably. |
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Over the next century, nine major searches added to the sense that the party had met an almost supernatural fate. |
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The storics of heroism from the epics involved the use of supernatural or divine powers by the avtats or incarnations of gods and goddesses. |
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I find myself sometimes wishing for a supernatural impartation of wisdom to my children, especially but not exclusively to my three sons. |
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Ghosts, monsters, fairies, UFOs and tales of all things supernatural are wanted for a new book on the subject. |
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Like other Filipinos, Ilocanos recognize an array of supernatural beings, such as the katawtaw-an. |
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It allows you to hypothesise a supernatural entity to explain phenomena, but doesn't allow you to investigate said entity. |
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As far as I was aware, they had no supernatural powers of hypnosis or mind control. |
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Often the healer would induce altered consciousness, perhaps in a sweat lodge, would let blood, and use supernatural or magic remedies. |
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Complicating the film visually is the always shifting point of view and the issue of reality versus memory versus the supernatural. |
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Some of the most poorly received episodes have been the ones that strayed into the supernatural. |
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David has recently written a book on psychic phenomena from the standpoint of suspicious skeptic of the supernatural. |
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In reality, however, it's a courtroom drama with a twinge of the supernatural. |
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The sun itself was worshipped and regarded as a supernatural force, and all temples contained a shrine to the sun, Ra, or both. |
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There are no supernatural events, wild chases through the jungle, superpowers, or other falsehoods. |
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These theaters of anxiety illustrate collective helplessness in the face of unmanageable man-made, natural or supernatural forces. |
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And with life-drained bodies turning up around the countryside, it's clear that some supernatural force is at work. |
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This collection represents the more bizarre and supernatural episodes produced in the series. |
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You really get the feeling that uncontrollable supernatural forces have hijacked her life. |
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The court believes that supernatural forces manipulated the downfall of this picture. |
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Meanwhile, supernatural occurrences begin plaguing the boat, starting with a record player that turns itself on at will. |
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So whenever an overly supernatural event happens, it's almost a distraction, rather than the thrilling surprise the creators were hoping for. |
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Now the subjects can be brought to fear not only the ruler's superior force, but also his supernatural powers. |
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Someone who subverts the system of nature, by constantly using the supernatural world, is going against the will of God. |
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He is a clever man of supernatural powers who uses tricks to outsmart his opponents. |
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The birth myths of supernatural heroes have been a subject of considerable interest to psychoanalysts. |
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Folktales also played a major role in oral literature and their subject matter ranged from love to heroism to supernatural acts. |
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I think that in order to be a good technical writer you have to have an almost supernatural caringness about what you are doing. |
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Explanations requiring the supernatural are now not merely quaint but harmfully distracting to children and other innocents. |
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In olden times the blacksmith was often credited with having more knowledge of the supernatural than other folk. |
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In the first, Shelley argues that a supernatural creator is an unnecessary hypothesis, a violation of Occam's razor. |
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It glows a freakish, supernatural, luminous blue, for reasons none of the ice obsessives can explain to me. |
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A mountain is god, a river is god, and animals have natural and supernatural values. |
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In addition, the new Asian horror movies blend their supernatural spookiness seamlessly into modern contexts. |
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The downright spooky supernatural aura enhances the staying power of this film in your mind. |
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They want science to be redefined to include non-natural or supernatural explanations for natural phenomena. |
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And Miranda's supernatural visitations, which began on the night of the murder, are escalating in both frequency and intensity. |
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Bollywood's recent supernatural visitations have an unlikely parallel in English literature's Romantic period, says Aparna Raman. |
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They elaborated the connections between the telegraph and spiritualist phenomena in an effort to legitimize their supernatural experiences. |
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All religions believe that human ethics should be derived from a supernatural, non-human source. |
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The Observer is on the lookout for ghostly goings-on in local haunted houses and tales of the spine-tingling supernatural. |
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In addition, shamans and soothsayers deal with the supernatural and the spirit world. |
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Ironically, when the teeth of the plot sink in, the introduction of the supernatural nemesis, Ghost Machine begins to lag. |
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Here Taylor means that science restricts itself to naturalistic theories, and does not invoke the supernatural. |
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These songs construct a vision in which the natural, human, and supernatural worlds are intertwined. |
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In truth, for Pearce there is no division between natural and supernatural, at least not when she is at the top of her form. |
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They were designed to help the individual cope with perceived natural and supernatural adversity. |
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We cannot by scientific investigation prove the order of events of past, unrepeatable, supernatural events. |
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Wherever he goes, Han-gi seems to cause pain and wreak havoc, with something of a supernatural tinge to his unreasoning brutality. |
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From an early age he had been interested in the supernatural, and from this grew a concern with the spiritual symbolism of colour. |
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For a while it denoted an attempt to erase the border between fact and fiction, between the natural and the supernatural. |
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I don't think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces. |
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Books on mysticism and the supernatural abound, in a way that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. |
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A drop kick caught her by surprise, and she was hurled backwards by its supernatural force. |
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These are people who have a naturalistic worldview, free of supernatural and mystical elements. |
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Finally, a naturalistic worldview is one that has no supernatural or mystical element to it. |
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Umm Ba'ula, the mother of bogeys, is a supernatural figure in warning stories told to small children. |
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Various ethnic groups throughout history have thought that elderberry had medicinal or even supernatural powers. |
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Harry Houdini was such a great escapologist that even his friends, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, believed he must have had supernatural help. |
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But, although I jib slightly at the supernatural Skellig's curative powers and the sentimental conclusion, the story has legs as well as wings. |
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I am a sensitive, not in a supernatural sense, but my senses are very acute, my hearing is very acute. |
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A weird supernatural calamity has thrust part of Japan up into the air like a tower. |
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Despite the advances of rationalism, a belief in the supernatural has stubbornly remained. |
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He believes absolutely in the objective reality of the supernatural world and of witchcraft and magic. |
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Scripture used in this way, with supposed supernatural authority, is unchallengeable. |
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Crop circles are formed by mischievous human beings who dupe the easily dupable into believing there is some extra-natural or supernatural cause. |
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Dembski sets out to fashion a workable notion of supernatural intervention. |
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There are other ways too in which these supernatural encounters diverge from the medieval norm. |
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Only a supernatural act, a work of God's grace, can regenerate those people, which is everyone. |
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The cold months ahead also promise a veritable buffet of supernatural entertainments. |
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Underworld yammers on and on about bloodlines and supernatural compost when it should be kicking it up a notch in the action department. |
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The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams endowed supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting. |
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Infants and small children often wear amulets and bracelets to protect them from supernatural forces. |
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Her annoyingly precocious daughter becomes the main conduit to the supernatural by way of the imaginary-friend device. |
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Spiritual guides hang out in relaxed places where they can be of assistance to others without revealing their supernatural powers. |
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Finally, we must reject supernatural explanations for the practical and simple reason that they make an end of science instead of advancing it. |
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The Ganges is worshiped as a mother goddess, Gangadevi, and her celestial water is believed to possess supernatural power. |
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He had a supernatural presence, almost like a fictional character come to life. |
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Setting the outlaw apart and marking him as truly heroic, oral traditions in particular ascribe his continued success to supernatural protection. |
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He uses the opportunity to use scientific and mathematical methods to discredit belief in the supernatural. |
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Beware of people claiming supernatural powers, and of those that try to impress you with pompous titles and appellations. |
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Now he is presenting nothing less than an entire history of atheism, and an impassioned argument for disbelief in all things supernatural. |
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Cole fears that his supernatural abilities themselves are a sin, and Malcolm's sin is the classic sin of unbelief. |
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The Japanese culture and arts have been strongly influenced by a wide-spread belief in ghosts, demons and supernatural spirits. |
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But who is he, this invisible being that rules me, this unknowable being, this rover of a supernatural race? |
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The shrill horns and groaning engines assume almost supernatural qualities. |
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He's at peace now, free of pain, free of the longing for supernatural rescue. |
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It is possible to have a religious attitude to life without belief in supernatural beings and occurrences. |
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She sagged against me, using my supernatural strength as a wall against her drooping form. |
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The full moon had long represented supernatural occurrences, lycanthropy and such. |
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This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. |
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That almost supernatural talent for empathy was his greatest political gift. |
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By reciting certain mantras and performing austerities one's consciousness is expanded and one develops supernatural abilities. |
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Ghost stories, tales of the supernatural and horror films all scare us via confrontation with the unknown. |
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Explanations that involve supernatural forces or magic are also fine in a fantasy world. |
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Some magicians have attributed their feats not to magic but to supernatural or paranormal powers, e.g., Sai Baba and Uri Geller. |
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There must've been a point when the Aztecs realized the Spanish weren't supernatural beings and could be killed. |
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Not surprisingly, given our growing national devotion to mystical malarkey, Irish people are flocking to this supernatural health centre. |
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In particular, you should read it just to understand the depth of belief in god-men and the supernatural that exists even today in India. |
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The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans. |
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This season there has been a dearth of good supernatural television, and hopefully this will fit the bill. |
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He is a monster with the unique combination of supernatural powers and extraordinary human characteristics that make him a threat to humans everywhere. |
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Thrust into a world of seemingly supernatural monsters, his adventure begins. |
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Although Korra looks at PTSD and assault with supernatural grandiosity, fans were quick to pick up on it in some forums. |
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Today, acceptance of ideas of supernatural causality is more common among women, while some men, particularly those with party or military backgrounds, reject such ideas. |
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They recognize a wide range of supernatural beings, including demons, ancestral spirits, and divinities such as the sun god Surya and the rice goddess Dewi Sri. |
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Following Shakespeare's plot closely, he gives us absconding lovers, local amdram yokels and bands of woodlanders led by the supernatural Sylvia and Angel. |
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He loves writing about the supernatural and has written two novels in the last 18 months, one about time travel and the other about alien abduction. |
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Without your so much as lifting a buffed pinky, those with dishonorable intentions are exposed by seemingly supernatural forces. |
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These social and supernatural forces have come to represent anxieties and energies restrained, repressed, or dismissed in modern Japanese and Euro-American society. |
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People as well as objects may reveal the presence of the supernatural. |
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What makes people believe in magic, the supernatural and psychic powers? |
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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Much of the time, she is wonderfully funny about it, and good-humored, the supernatural her accomplice in comic relief. |
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Television has played no small part in the creation of an aura of respectability around supernatural mumbo jumbo, whether it be presented as new age or old school. |
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It will include exhibitions of the supernatural, including a display of Kirlean Photography, a system which, it is claimed, shows the body's psychic auras in colour. |
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Chile's rich store of folklore, sayings, and supernatural beliefs is derived from its European and Indian past, as well as its relation to the mountains and the ocean. |
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The maned wolf is believed to have supernatural and medicinal powers. |
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Often an account of the supernatural folklore of a region is no more than a list of ghosts supposed to haunt the area, followed by a tellable tale or two. |
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The entire ballet is set amid a swirl of supernatural Scotch mist. |
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It was identified as an ancient exorcism technique that indicated she had been suspected of supernatural powers. |
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On TripAdvisor, visitors gush about the tour and the supernatural experiences encountered during their stay. |
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It is clear Hitchens had no use for the supernatural or spiritual, but his alternative to religion was not merely scientific. |
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Many of my soldiers began to treat bracelets, pictures, bibles and video games as if they had supernatural powers. |
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He then murders his girlfriend and chops off a certain body part of his own, all while imagining the cause of this to some sort of supernatural evil. |
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The segregation rules were waved and vampires, humans, half-breeds, shape-shifters and all other supernatural denominations were allowed to live up there together. |
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Of course, this being Sleepy Hollow, Mills has had her own brushes with the supernatural. |
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His stories are accompanied by a strange twist of the supernatural. |
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They refuse to see him as anything less than an unbeatable force, a pure, supernatural tide of destruction targeted from time to time by some occult conspiracy. |
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My father, for his part, believed the poet had something like supernatural powers. |
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I'm sure that the web will spend most of this week obsessing over the more supernatural elements of Sunday's finale. |
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But then, demons were supernatural beings, and therefore were unkillable. |
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This supernatural drama, based on the Jason Mott novel The Returned, is eerie and enigmatic, as well as heartfelt and wondrous. |
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After his two ventures into the supernatural, M Night Shyamalan switches to extraterrestrials in a quiet, unshowy film that builds up a real head of suspense. |
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Boswell was easily frighted when talk turned to the supernatural. |
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The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before. |
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People love to be frightened by make-believe versions of the supernatural, such as ghost stories and vividly hideous specters that pop out of the dark. |
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The old men knew they were lying when they maintained that the sound of the bullroarer was the voice of supernatural beings or that initiands were to be swallowed by monsters. |
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His visionary experience also stands between the mystical and the metaphorical, rather than straightforwardly purporting to be supernatural as in the case of Yeats. |
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When his own nostrums failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the girls, suggested that the girls' problems might have a supernatural origin. |
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My guess is that in the final moments of the season the supernatural elements of the show will recede. |
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Water dripped onto the cave floor from hanging purple stalactites, emerald stalagmites rose from the floor and everywhere evidence of supernatural beauty lingered. |
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He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense. |
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This language suggests an object that actually radiates a supernatural force, as if through a halo-effect that influences all who come in contact with its great spirit. |
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However, the similarity lies in that they both describe mysterious and supernatural events as they occur, both of which remain resolved at the story's end. |
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At one stage, he finds himself hot on the trail of the mysterious, possibly supernatural, killer, drawing himself into a disturbing and haunting climactic experience. |
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As critics have often pointed out, this violence does not stem from supernatural forces but from material, legal, economic, and social realities and inequalities. |
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In broad terms, the border between moral influence and supernatural transformation was a porous one in Victorian culture, one that was crossed and re-crossed with regularity. |
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They tend to sudden deaths, supposedly via supernatural happenings. |
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The point, however, is to remember that the medieval Japanese, with all their fears and superstitions, did make a clear distinction between the natural and the supernatural. |
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A system of belief can exist without a recognition of the supernatural. |
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The Dark is based on Simon Maginn's 1994 novel, Sheep, and is designed to provoke memories of classic supernatural chillers set in rural settings such as The Wicker Man. |
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The resultant journey through North Yorkshire's smuggling past to recover a strange artefact with supernatural powers might sound like familiar sword and sorcery territory. |
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These murders culminate in his suicide, which is, like the murders themselves, shrouded in empirical impossibilities and supernatural improbabilities. |
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Study of primitive peoples who believe in the supernatural can produce many examples of the results of incantations, potions, charms, rites or invocations. |
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. |
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These could be values conceived as residing in nature or in nature as representative of something still beyond nature, the in-someway supernatural. |
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Eight of the knives were plain, four were decorated, and two bore the likeness of the Sican Deity, believed by Sicans to rule the supernatural world. |
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And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural. |
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The crown and sceptre, still used to inaugurate the new king or queen in England, are symbols of the supernatural power that resides in the monarch. |
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This Canadian-UK co-production is an underwhelming supernatural thriller. |
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There were no reports of supernatural sounds, translucent ghosts, or mischievous poltergeists, let alone greenskinned reptoids in an undergraduate girls dorm! |
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Now Tyson, still minus a chief trainer, must conquer both Etienne's almost supernatural determination and the savvy cornerman Tyson wanted for himself. |
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The evidences are all there that there is a supernatural being. |
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In times past, it seems understandable that pre-scientific societies would imagine mysterious forces or supernatural causes to be responsible for natural disasters. |
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In the southeast quadrant, the remaining primary forest has been set aside as a conservation area protected by legislation and supernatural strictures. |
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Human health was left to supernatural powers and demonology. |
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Robert Aickman, who wrote some of the finest supernatural fiction of the 20th century, purloined the word to describe the effect he strove for in his work. |
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Taking a script written by three first-timers, Harlin has crafted an expectation-confounding descent into dark hearts and the supernatural deviltry at which its title hints. |
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While it fails as an epic, the film does have many supernatural elements. |
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Doyle hopes to prove his new pet theories on the existence of the supernatural, but when a murder takes place, his own drowned ghost reappears to dog him. |
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Supernatural creatures such as angels, genies, ghosts, and spirits, are believed to exist. |
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Many supernatural legends surround the history of alleged relics as they accompanied the spread of Buddhism and gave legitimacy to rulers. |
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Traditional biographies of Gautama generally include numerous miracles, omens, and supernatural events. |
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The subject matter typically carries themes of fertility or the supernatural. |
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They will live ordinary, corporeal life but will not die and pass as such into the supernatural World to Come. |
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Unlike what is implied in the blurbs Powder Burn is a survival action adventure and doesn't have a real supernatural connection. |
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The kyais are the principal intermediaries between the villages masses and the realm of the supernatural. |
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Under the command of Olorun were also orishas, intermediaries in the Yorubic religion said to be connected between man and the supernatural. |
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Many ancient accounts ascribe volcanic eruptions to supernatural causes, such as the actions of gods or demigods. |
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Main characters in myths are usually gods, demigods or supernatural humans, while legends generally feature humans as their main characters. |
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Maltese folktales include various stories about mysterious creatures and supernatural events. |
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In this play, Shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure. |
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Pentecostals understand the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge to be supernatural revelations of wisdom and knowledge by the Holy Spirit. |
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The eerie nocturnal cries of nesting shearwaters and petrels has led to associations with the supernatural. |
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Paul Wesley, known for playing Aaron Corbett in Fallen and Stefan Salvatore in the supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries. |
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A legend arose that James had been warned against invading England by supernatural powers. |
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Elliott and Rossio, inspired by the opening narration of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, decided to give the film a supernatural edge. |
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The impasse was finally resolved on 8 May when Gilbert proposed a plot that did not depend on any supernatural device. |
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Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths. |
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Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. |
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Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of god or hero shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc. |
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Swedenborg was stimulated by the alchemystical notions of both men, and he began to move beyond the natural to the supernatural sciences. |
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Night Shyamalan surprised everyone with this spookily brilliant supernatural thriller. |
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Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated. |
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The couple in question, John and Mia, are plagued by supernatural phenomena after two Satanists break into their home in a random attack. |
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The first lesson is the supernatural beauty of the female stars from the great era of Cinecitta and la dolce vita. |
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While indulging our fascination with the paranormal, it also took pains to balance the supernatural with the psychological. |
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Ruby's vision has had to be transformed from one that has been blind to supernatural significance to one that is able to see anagogically. |
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The culture of Glome seems to reflect that of the Greeks who believed in the supernatural nature of dreams. |
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Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. |
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The archaeological heritage not only has an important scientific relevance, but also supernatural significance to the indigenous Altaians. |
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That may account for their popular nickname, Wendigo, after the supernatural cannibalistic demon of the Algonquin Indians. |
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The deepest impulse of philosophy is the naturalizing of the supernatural, and the highest function of religion is supernaturalizing the natural. |
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A notion of the transcendent, supernatural, or numinous, usually involving entities like ghosts, demons, or deities, is a cultural universal. |
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Sherlock Holmes is brought in to determine if the dog is in fact real or supernatural. |
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They are said to be the protectors of the supernatural, guarding the secrecy of supernatural creatures, or beings, from the world. |
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A wide variety of ominous or hellish supernatural dogs occur in mythologies around the world. |
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The second is the Fairy World, an ideal world which represents imagination and the supernatural. |
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He felt the depiction of the supernatural was among Shakespeare's strengths, not weaknesses. |
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It departs from the original plot by introducing clear supernatural elements. |
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Mona is a pintsize ghostbuster with a flair for unearthing strange and supernatural mysteries. |
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Moreover, Devon's folklore includes tales of a fearsome supernatural dog known as the Yeth hound that Conan Doyle may have heard. |
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Much of the confusion that springs from them comes from their ability to straddle the play's borders between reality and the supernatural. |
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Here we see a connection between body and soul, mortal and supernatural, a common theme in Rossetti's works. |
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It contains satirical scenes and folk material such as faeries and other supernatural occurrences. |
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His next film release is Highbinders, a supernatural, sci-fi, kung-fu comedy due out next year. |
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Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years' War. |
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Thomas Arnold, he rejected the supernatural elements in religion, even while retaining a fascination for church rituals. |
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It is Jonson's only pastoral drama, it was written in sophisticated verse and included supernatural action and characters. |
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Many Native Americans viewed their troubles in terms of religious or supernatural causes within their own belief systems. |
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According to an old Buryatian legend, there once lived three brothers on Olkhon Island whose father had supernatural powers. |
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He can give a feeling of being not of this world and gives hints of supernatural connections. |
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It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man. |
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The Maya world was populated by a great variety of deities, supernatural entities and sacred forces. |
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The earliest intermediaries between humans and the supernatural realm were shamans. |
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In common with the rest of Mesoamerica, the Maya believed in a supernatural realm inhabited by an array of powerful deities. |
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Spirit houses were an important folk custom which were used to ensure balance with the natural and supernatural world. |
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Some doctors at the time believed that supernatural forces such as witches, demons or possession caused mental disorders. |
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In that vein, Vico proposed a social need for religion, for a supernatural Divine Providence to keep order in human society. |
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Other words for supernatural beings in personal names almost all denote pagan gods, suggesting that elves were in a similar category of beings. |
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The old beliefs are closely connected to the land, animism, and the supernatural. |
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Social beliefs labeled witches as supernatural beings capable of doing great harm, possessing the ability to fly, and as cannibalistic. |
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However, Sikhism has never had a literal system of angels, preferring guidance without explicit appeal to supernatural orders or beings. |
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Depending on the context, the Hebrew word may refer to a human messenger or to a supernatural messenger. |
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An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. |
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There are frequent tales and claimed sightings of ghosts, phantoms and other supernatural phenomena. |
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Stories of a supernatural emperor who was destined to rule circulated in the empire. |
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They imagined themselves living in a world inhabited by supernatural powers which were mostly malevolent. |
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Peasants in Russian and Ukrainian societies often shunned witchcraft, unless they needed help against supernatural forces. |
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Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to explain the events. |
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Creation myths in many religions involve the creation of Earth by a supernatural deity or deities. |
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The Romans usually treated their traditional narratives as historical, even when these have miraculous or supernatural elements. |
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Trial records from the Inquisition and secular courts discovered a link between prostitutes and supernatural practices. |
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Belief in the supernatural is strong in all parts of India, and lynchings for witchcraft are reported in the press from time to time. |
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The web series Caledonia and associated novel is a supernatural police drama that takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. |
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This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle. |
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Anyone willing to pay pounds 200,000 for this limo will get a real holy roller, once owned by legendary Italian monk Padre Pio, who was said to have supernatural powers. |
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Another exceptional piece is a large Maori figurative pendant or hei tiki crafted from nephrite, a material that was believed to have supernatural powers. |
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When these painted details were recorded in 1974, the specific associations with supernatural power, trancing and the spirit world were not yet clear. |
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Irish and Viking literature depict the Battle of Clontarf as a gathering of this world and the supernatural, including witches, goblins and demons. |
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Set against the backdrop of the industrial plague-ridden city of Dunwall, you play as a supernatural assassin with no care in the world and plenty of revenge in your intent. |
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Anatoly Liberman suggests that dwarfs may have originally been thought of as lesser supernatural beings, which became literal smallness after Christianization. |
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An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment. |
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Here, by a dramatic contrast which one may call monstruous, the supernatural is far more forcibly put before us than by all the glories and the visions of the other painters. |
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The poetic sensibilities of the genre led gothic rock lyrics to exhibit literary romanticism, morbidity, existentialism, religious symbolism or supernatural mysticism. |
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It will emerge that angelic illumination is always of things supernatural, and therefore, the first Speaker or Illuminer is always known by those illumined. |
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Lovecraft on the genre, the weird marriage of poetry and pulp in Clark Ashton Smith, pulp magazines and short-fiction, supernatural sleuths in Weird Tales, and more. |
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Some doorways were surrounded by mosaic masks of monsters representing mountain or sky deities, identifying the doorways as entrances to the supernatural realm. |
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The fourth, kismetic, dimension is a conceptual umbrella under which all unfortunate incidents are explained as fate or the work of the supernatural. |
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If you weren't spooked by James Wan's 2011 supernatural horror Insidious, you stand little chance of making sense of this self-referential sequel. |
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Often it was believed the cause of disease was supernatural. |
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In a recent interview, he described how he danced during breaks in the filming of supernatural drama Marchlands to lighten the marchlands to lighten the mood. |
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