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Supernatural

adjective

Not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material.

noun

Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively. Synonym: occult.

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"Supernatural" Quotes from Famous Books

... at length determined that it must be the "great medicine" of the white party; an appellation given by the Indians to anything of supernatural and mysterious power that is guarded as a talisman. They were completely thrown out in their conjecture, however, by an offer of the white men to exchange the calf for a horse; their estimation of the great medicine sank in an instant, and ...

— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

... largest species I have ever seen, either in the Alps or our museums. They made no attempt to move when we approached; they seemed to regard themselves as kings of the desert, looked on Tyre as an appanage which belonged to them, and whither they were about to return. Nothing more supernatural ever met my eyes; I could almost suppose that behind them I saw the terrible figure of Ezekiel, the poet of vengeance, pointing to the devoted city which the divine wrath had overwhelmed with destruction. The discharge of a few muskets made them rise from their rock: but they showed no disposition ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various

... about the length and breadth of a man. It did not appear to be a beaten path, nor were there people enough in the neighbourhood to make such a path. Probably it was an old track, long disused and forgotten, for by such natural causes is man's belief in the supernatural fed. ...

— Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora - Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the - South Seas, 1790-1791 • Edward Edwards

... my time for vedette duty. I relieve Butler. Not long till dawn, I think. Far to my left I hear sounds, as if an army is stirring. My time will be short on post. Where was I? Yes; the supernatural power of ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... impostor. Many, however, had full faith in his supernatural power, and often he seemed to believe in his own spectral ...

— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock

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