Teleologia i teologia. Nowożytne przemiany w rozumieniucelowości natury ludzkiej na przykładzie Kajetana i Lutra by Andrzej Persidok

“…Traditionally, it was perceived according to the model of a harmonious relation between nature and grace: man is by nature unable to find fulfillment elsewhere than in supernatural communion with God. The ultimate goal of his nature is the supernatural goal, which is reflected in his “natural desire to see God” – the hidden driving force of his entire activity. …”
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OTHERWORLDLY LANDSCAPES IN THE HISTORIC TEXT TRUYỀN KỲ MẠN LỤC BY NGUYEN DU by Van Hoa Pham

“…This study promotes Vietnamese literary heritage and contributes to advancing the research and teaching of the genre of East Asian supernatural literature at educational institutions. …”
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Modernist Disavowal by Stephen ROSS

“…Though they explicitly deplore the use of the supernatural, Conrad and Woolf rely upon it in their fiction. …”
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Le nahualli-tlahuipuchtli dans le monde nahuatl by Roberto Martínez González

“…The goal in this work is to define the meaning and function of the belief in this kind of supernatural beings. If we consider that the sixteenth century sources do not present an exhaustive description of this supernatural character, then we must compare the ancient information with recent ethnographic data in order to explain and define its meaning. …”
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Identifications totémiques : réflexions sur la relation entre humains et entités surnaturelles chez les Salish centraux de la côte by Baptiste Gille

“…Nowadays, many indigenous people living in the Vancouver area, on Central Coast Salish territories, can claim to have a special relationship with a supernatural entity, often a non-human animal species, a vegetal species, or an element of the landscape. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…While the recent historiography argues that the supernatural and wonderful events are scarcely used by the traveler in his work, our research examines how the notion of the monstrous is inserted into the tradition of the wonders of the medieval travel. …”
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Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“…Accepting time linearity and physical uniformitarianism, disregarding supernatural acts and catastrophes, natural sciences reconstruct the past from the present. …”
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Perspectives rituelles dans les Plaines et sur la Côte Nord-Ouest by Klaus Hamberger

“…In the Plains, the ritual aim was to transfer the power of supernatural predators to humans; on the Northwest Coast, to re-transform supernatural predators into human beings. …”
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Langues et langages du merveilleux dans L’Enjomineur : enjeux poétiques, historiques et narratifs by Joanna Pavlevski-Malingre

“…Studying linguistic issues and their link to Supernatural in l’Enjomineur brings a better understanding of the poetic features of historic fantasy, of the way the human world and the Other World interact in these novels, and reveals Pierre Bordage’s views about French Revolution and human passions. …”
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The theme of the North in modern Russian folk-horror by Elena A. Safron

“…The author comes to the conclusion that not only supernatural creatures are dangerous to humans, but also nature itself: heroes risk drowning in a swamp, freezing during a snowstorm, etc. …”
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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by scholars as a supernatural phenomenon that contributes to the presentation of the place as eerie. …”
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Alternative treatment for schizophrenia with a local wisdom approach in the Tidung tribe community of Tarakan City: a descriptive qualitative study by Darni Darni, Sulidah Sulidah, Ramdya Akbar Tukan, Rts Netisa Martawinarti, Siti Khadijah, Putri Irwanti Sari

“…We view traditional medicine in this context as a combination of prayer (supernatural components), action (administering potions), and therapy. …”
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Freud, la répétition et les figures de la hantise pulsionnelle by Claire Pagès

“…Despite Freud’s rationalist rejection of the obsession as supernatural phenomenon, we propose to demonstrate that there is a great theory of instinctual obsession in freudian psychoanalysis. …”
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Horizontes de la narrativa colombiana de las últimas décadas en el ámbito latinoamericano by Carmen Alemany Bay

“…After the literary space of reality we deal with the supernatural space through an analysis of the most outstanding manifestations of magic realism. …”
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Destiny, Miracle Healers and Magical Intervention: Vernacular Beliefs on Involuntary Childlessness in Estonia by Reet Hiiemäe

“…Secondly, conclusions drawn from the collected material, i.e. the temporary and changeable nature of those beliefs, their relations with the mass media, the social and the individual aspects and the motifs of guilt and supernatural punishment in the context of identity issues will be presented, concluding that such belief-based models of explanation and help-seeking eventually function as a mental self-defence mechanism.…”
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Virtuoses ambivalents by Graham Jones

“…Emphatically denying supernatural powers and scrupulously avoiding any effects that resemble biblical miracles, they take care to present their performances as clever tricks clearly designed to entertain, educate and galvanize. …”
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Holiness and taboo in the Zion Christian Church by S Moripe

“…Mana is a mysterious kind of supernatural power, a potential energy which people believe to be in and behing all men/women and things. …”
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« All London was one grey temple of an awful rite » : Londres dans The Hill of Dreams d’Arthur Machen (1907) by Sophie Mantrant

“…This transformation is part of the thematic thread of ‘persistence’ that runs throughout Machen’s work, the past persisting in the present. In the supernatural tales, the past is embodied in a primitive race of horrifying creatures who have survived in the Welsh countryside. …”
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Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…While there are realistic uses of excessive lighting in film, overexposure almost always appears symbolic, and operates as a cinematic code that translates exposure to the magical, supernatural, or unconscious “other.” Because it is so often connected to the aesthetics of shock and revelation, overexposure often plays on the limits of what we can bear to watch. …”
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« But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Exploring unstable areas, The Beetle is a striking example of suburban Gothic, pitting the supernatural creature against the vagrant, the lady, the politician or the scientist, in order to challenge social but also gendered boundaries.…”
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