The Supernatural
The supernatural characters and powers of sacred trees in the Holy Land
... The most common "function" of the sacred trees in the Middle East is to serve as the abode of the spirit/soul of a saint (Welli, [42]; passim). Curtiss [[142]:75,77,79], noted, regarding the status of the saints ...
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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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Eminent scientists reject the supernatural: a survey of the Fellows of the Royal Society
... the supernatural (Larson and Witham 1997; Leuba ...a supernatural entity, consciousness sur- viving death, and whether religion and science occupy non-overlapping magisteria ...
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Fantastic facts : the supernatural in the ethnographic writings of Giraldus Cambrensis.
... the supernatural in his Celtic ethnographic works, and I use the term ‘supernatural’ in its broadest ...the supernatural was extremely common in medieval texts, I believe that Gerald’s interest in ...
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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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The supernatural sex: women, magick & mediumship; assembling a field of fascination in contemporary Art
... via supernatural methods is by no means ...from supernatural or occult references, most notably within the media, with commissioned television series, documentaries and films permeating popular ...
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Mobility, Identity and the Supernatural in Late-Victorian Fiction
... An Englishwoman by birth, Mrs Eversley’s story reminds the reader of the captivity of John Every in Maiwa’s Revenge (1888), though temporal and contextual circumstances[r] ...
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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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Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double
... For Terry Castle, technological reproduction is a contributing factor in “the spectralization of the other.” This process of spectralization, which she claims began in the eighteenth century, resulted in a sense that ...
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Volume 03 Issue 02 (2015) Feb. 2015
... man was capable of understanding nature (through his budding intellect) and therefore controlling it, and more to do with the emotional appeal of connecting himself with nature and understanding it through a harmonious ...
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Berasik Ritual Performance of the Bajau/Sama: An Embodiment of Spiritual Characters
... the supernatural spirits that serve as an entity of the metaphysical ...(the supernatural creatures) who cures the patients indeed exists because during the process of healing, the shaman will communicate ...
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Vol 10, No 2 (2019)
... The supernatural elements in this play reflect the writer’s optimism towards love and human ...embody supernatural power of love to create a surreal ...the supernatural figures are benign characters ...
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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Exploring the Artistic Ossature of Nature and Function of Horror in Toni Morrison's Novels
... novel, next to the supernatural identity of Beloved which dominates the plot’s incidents, the narrative presents other instances that pertain to a horror which is ‘universalized’. The images of Beloved’s grave and ...
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Postcolonial Trauma Narratives: Traumatic Historiography and Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
... The tangibility of James’s ‘ghosts’ is similarly significant in that tangibility and tactility mark the literal point of contact between the real and the unreal. The tactility forces the unreal, the supernatural, ...
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Literary and theological modernisms : Rainer Maria Rilke, T S Eliot, and Józef Wittlin
... For other comprehensive accounts of various forms of belief in the supernatural in the period of modernism, see Ellis Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism Cambridge, MA: Harvard University [r] ...
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American Gothic Unit
... Gothic poetry, short stories, or novels were designed to thrill readers by providing mystery and blood-.. curdling accounts of villainy, murder, and the supernatural.[r] ...
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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
... the supernatural beings that inhabit the freshwater systems inserted in fishing communities interact with fishers and fishes and how this worldview can imply the manage- ment of fisheries in the ...
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Study of Tales of Supernatural Powers from Select Revisionist Texts of The Ramayana and The Mahabharata
... the supernatural powers of the particular warrior by chanting of special ...the supernatural powers attained by mantras, these weapons can be launched by the mind, from the eyes, by words, or by a bow and ...
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