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We’re on This Road Together: The Changing Fan/Producer Relationship in Television as Demonstrated by Supernatural
... these levels, their other duties usually mean they will have less influence on the micro- level of story-telling, like the beats, and more influence at the macro-level of the season story arc. Booth points out that “a ...
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Finance, possessed: Sighting supernatural figurations in critical accounts of the financial crisis
... We might, even if it seems like a contradiction in terms, speak of a materialist hauntology. A hunt for figurative ghosts that takes the full consequence of privileging the figural; seeing it not (only) as the only clue ...
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Eminent scientists reject the supernatural: a survey of the Fellows of the Royal Society
... We examined whether or not religious upbringing played a role in current attitudes toward religion. ANOVAs indicated that there were no differences between our groups based on childhood religious affiliation for three of ...
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Robert Ervin Howard’s Vision of the Supernatural in Beyond the Black River
... was [fantasy genre’s] Homer” (Stableford, 2005, p. 45). An alternative proposition is that the notion of fantasy only be applied to fantasy ction as a genre and a mode, with the unrealistic elements of literature ...
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Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms
... The Estonian Geopathic Society, officially a sub-organisation of the Baltic Dowsers’ Association, unites people with different opinions as well as different opinions about the “weak earth fields and their influence on ...
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Mental Health Literacy and the Belief in the Supernatural
... Objective: Mental health literacy affects treatment seeking. We compare literacy levels of psychi- atric outpatients and a control group of outpatients seeking treatment for non-psychiatric disor- ders in the same ...
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Fantastic facts : the supernatural in the ethnographic writings of Giraldus Cambrensis.
... The Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac traced the evolution of the word supernaturalis in his 1946 work Surnaturel: etudes historiques (Paris, 1946) and found that before the twelfth century it was extremely rare; 74 the ...
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The supernatural characters and powers of sacred trees in the Holy Land
... In many polytheistic religions, most of which still prevail in areas of tropical or semitropical vegetation, the "unit of veneration" is the sacred wood/grove/forest, which is the centre of well-established ...
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Indigenous Herbal Medicinal Knowledge among the Shinasha
... The study found that for the Shinasha, herbal medicine is the ultimate medical knowledge and practice, where it is considered as the very gift of God for them. The study reveals that herbal medicinal knowledge is ...
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The Holy Trinity : religion, well being, and purpose in life : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Psychology), Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
... regarding the adoption of religious belief as commonly observed in Northern European countries. These arguments tend to support the culturally evolved component of acquiring religion. That is, if an individual develops ...
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Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double
... Carmilla reads like a picture show, and because Le Fanu shows so much, the flatness of the narrative does not translate easily into depth hermeneutics. The tendency to seek deep, rather than wide meaning, is one possible ...
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Necromancy, Virulence and Animosity in Shakespearean Plays
... The supernatural machinery and evil omens pervades the play and it has been clearly showcased that much blood has flown, gory acts have been committed, precious souls have been left to rot, wither and waste away! ...
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THE INTERACTION BETWEEN INDIGENOUS AND BIOMEDICAL HEALING SYSTEMS AMONG THE SHINASHA
... The study found that the Shinasha consider their knowledge of herbal medicine to be the gift of God for them. In the study area, herbal medicinal practitioners are males. The medical ethics of the Shinasha is based on ...
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Flight on the Jacobean Stage
... the supernatural entities successfully after they took over Blackfriars and adopted flying machinery for the supernatural ...develop supernatural effects to most of their plays after they performed ...
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Backpacking through an ontology of becoming : a never‐ending cycle of journeys
... At the end of their journey or even during the trip backpackers can share their experiences with novices as they interact at different stages of their respective journeys. The interaction can take place through verbal ...
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Water spirits within the fishers’ worldview: implications for fishing management in Northeast Brazil
... Local practices among traditional people also include launching herbs, coffee beans, cassava-based alcoholic beverages, among other offerings, in rivers [10, 49]. The Mapuche Indians, in South America, also follow a cul- ...
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REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF MYSTICISM AS A CATEGORY
... with supernatural deities and entities form a regular ...of supernatural dimensions of reality – these supernatural experiences and magical practices can be brought under the broader category of ...
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Traces of supernatural in hausa oral songs: a special Reference to dr. mammanshata
... Here, Shata presents MammanSakkwato as a person who had possessed Kau-da-bara (a precaution and self-defense). Therefore, even in the battle field, he could not be shot. Thus, and he doesn’t bend down to avoid bullets, ...
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Berasik Ritual Performance of the Bajau/Sama: An Embodiment of Spiritual Characters
... the supernatural, as humans themselves would naturally possess some religious ...the supernatural for certain purposes which are normally seeking to obtain good, wellbeing and peace within the practitioners ...
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Supernatural language in Robert Browning's works
... The "ice-spring" of line 524, is part of an extended metaphor for poetry in which a fount or spring aiming for the sky becomes "enswathed/ In dark and fear", sinks in the dead past, and turns to ice ...
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