Influencias recíprocas entre la ginecología y obstetricia europea y la indígena en Uruguay by José Enrique Pons

“…Ethnic medical notions attributed the origin of diseases to supernatural powers, and therapeutic resources were mainly herbal. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. The lesson of Babbitt reveals how the occult is absorbed under the aegis of the normal, the regular, the conventional. …”
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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. Bats remain poorly understood even today. …”
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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. Bats remain poorly understood even today. …”
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Dracula Gramophone by Marc Porée

“…Jonathan Harker) and intoning, while taking into account the means, both technological (gramophone) and supernatural (vampiric “sound bites”), whereby “negative audition” (achieved via hypnosis) and Verstimmung are enacted in the writing itself. …”
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The cultural and historical significance of malopo ritual: a Pedi perspective by M. E. K. Lebaka

“… Indeed, the implicit hypothesis that “there is little possibility, if any, for the Pedi traditional healers to experience the supernatural form of healing without performing music and dancing to it” raises the issue of “What makes the dance potent as a healing therapy?” …”
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The Return of The Thaumaturge Kings: an Analysis of Presidential Discourse in Mexico and Brazil during The COVID-19 emergency in 2020 by David Ramírez Plascencia

“…Outcomes will show how the presidential public approval stood in the construction of alternative public discourse, based on fakes news, social media and political polarization that praises a messianic president with supernatural powers. …”
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Specular Metamorphoses: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “The Ray of Displacement” by Asunción López-Varela

“…Inverting the angelic rhetoric present in the conception of the “Angel in the house,” Spofford displays a complex story that engenders the supernatural.…”
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La comida ritual en las fiestas de las veintenas mexicas : un acercamiento a su tipología y simbolismo by Elena Mazzetto

“…In particular, to establish outstanding relationships between the appearance of the food and the fields of action of the supernatural recipients to see some examples. Finally, to tackle the analysis of relationships between a specific food prepared during the festivity of the veintenas and the food prepared for the deceased, presenting an interpretive hypothesis that could explain these similarities.…”
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Too Many Munnies, too Many Americas: the Answer to the Academic Frontier in Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven by Daniel Candel Bormann

“…Taking William Munny and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven as short-hand for America, the present article solves what is probably ‘the’ critical impasse in Unforgiven studies: the degree of complexity of William Munny, and his ascription to the natural or supernatural realm. The article makes the natural interpretation academically binding, and makes a case for complexity in simplicity. …”
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„HOMO TRANSFORMENS” по Пелевину („современные” оборотни, вампиры и андроиды – постмодернистские вариации Виктора Пелевина)... by Ewa Pańkowska

“…The purpose of this article is to show distinguishing features and characteristics of Pelevin’s “non-human beings”: at first to discuss Pelevin’s “postmodernist and eclectic” conception of “supernatural creatures”: werewolves and vampires (Pelevin deconstructs “werewolf and vampire discourses”), and secondly, to show Pelevin’s point of view on human–robot relationships. …”
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HERBERT MCCABE’S CHRISTOLOGY by F. Manni

“…As for Incarnation, he holds both Bultmann’s demythologisation and De Lubac’s supernatural. Therefore, Chalcedon should be revised, not abolished, despite Bultmann, and the pre-existence of Christ should be reinterpreted, not considered meaningless. …”
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“Strange Sights and Sounds”: Indirection and the Rhetoric of the Feminine in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Tales (1852-1930) by Audrey Fogels

“…Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) composes supernatural tales that address in a very indirect fashion disturbing issues such as child abuse, domestic violence and frustrated female desires. …”
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Ecclesial Politology: in Search of an Adequate Perspective of Viewing the Church in Political Studies by Tadeusz SDS Jarosz

“…A skillful combination of the two aspects of the concept of Church offers a more in-depth insight into the functioning of ecclesial institutions by emphasizing the supernatural element as a component of the social and political process. …”
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Tree Beings in Tibet: Contemporary Popular Concepts of klu and gnyan as a Result of Ecological Change by Jakub Kocurek

“…It focuses on ideas on supernatural beings believed to dwell in trees, particularly klu and gnyan, which form a part of the popular or so called nameless religion. …”
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Worship and spirituality as a praxis-orientated apologetic in a post-modern world (the New Age) - an incarnational engaged approach by EK Foshaugen

“…In this article it is argued that this is best done through the supernatural power of an incarnational, engaged worship and spirituality (of adoration and action). …”
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L’avènement de la science météorologique du XVII$^{\protect \mathrm{e}}$ au XIX$^{\protect \mathrm{e}}$ siècle by Beaudouin, Denis

“…Since ancient times, natural phenomena have been observed and described, the first stage in the development of knowledge, often involving supposedly supernatural forces. It was in Europe in the 17th century that a scientific approach was developed, which became meteorology in the 19th century. …”
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Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…In this context, illustrated Victorian fairy tales became vehicles of resistance against the banishment of imaginary supernatural literature and the rejection of illustration as art. …”
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Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer en los años treinta: los sacerdotes amigos / Josemaría Escrivá in the 1930s: priest friends by José Luis González Gullón, Jaume Aurell

“…However, years before, during the Second Spanish Republic, he had launched a weekly meeting of priests explaining to them the spirit of Opus Dei, in order that they would identify with its supernatural and apostolic aims. In this study, the authors present a brief biography of the priests who participated in these meetings, and explain how the meetings began in February 1932, their evolution over three years and why they ended in early 1935 . …”
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Participation as “attingere” and Saint Thomas’ commentary on John 6:57 by Johannes von Voorst

“…I introduce the notion of supernatural participation of grace and Fabro’s development of the notions of ‘attingere’ as ‘partecipare per similitudinem’ and ‘partecipare per operationem’ for a fuller understanding of the notion of participation that Fabro holds to be so essential. …”
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