(a.) Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(3) There was no relationship between psychoses and supernatural belief types.
(4) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
(5) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(6) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
(7) He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel."
(8) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(9) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(10) The most relevant results were: the taxonomic determination of 237 vegetal species from which 399 curative products are obtained, in order to combat 57 illnesses, the most frequent of which are those related to the digestive system, the skin, the reproductive system and those of supernatural origin, which can only be treated by the use of plants in special ceremonies known as 'limpias', due to their peculiar condition.
(11) Analysis of the relationship of AIDS to traditional beliefs revealed that AIDS had been integrated into the traditional conceptualization of illness, health practices, and healing, and was attributed to both natural and supernatural causes.
(12) Multi-dimensional scaling analysis shows four clusters of mental distress: a) stress; b) western physiological; c) nonwestern physiological; and d) supernatural.
(13) The Queen is bonded to her country and people by supernatural compact.
(14) Herein lies the danger: it is in the interests of both western powers and Isis to grant this bunch of terrorists an almost supernatural horror.
(15) The movie might not have continued to inspire this level of devotion without its central, unanswerable mystery about the cause of the time loop; other Hollywood fantasies provide explanations for their supernatural events.
(16) Illness and the supernatural world are linked by the concepts of ghosts and Fever, the latter an index of ghost illness, deriving from a supernatural being.
(17) He designed a leaflet titled “Look After Yourself” pointing out clues that might distinguish between a person with supernatural powers and a person who “just appears to have them”.
(18) Illustrated by artists including Breno Tamura, Matt Rosenberg and Gus Storms, it's a supernatural-tinged tale of Mafia intrigue in which the soul of a murdered gangster, Tony Starks (Ghostface's regular alter ego), is bound up in 12 pieces of mystical vinyl.
(19) Breaking Bad and House of Cards are up against two subtitled series, BBC4's Danish political drama import Borgen and The Returned, the French supernatural thriller broadcast by Channel 4, for the international Bafta.
(20) BBC4's documentary about the supernatural on TV, Ghosts in the Machine, was watched by 304,000 between 9pm and 10pm.
Witchcraft
Definition:
(n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
(n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(3) A senior Haitian diplomat was caught on camera claiming the earthquake would be good for his country and appearing to blame the catastrophe on "witchcraft".
(4) Having examined this system as a whole, the author devotes his attention to a particular set of etiological categories, those which associate illness with witchcraft (nocturnal illnesses).
(5) Detectives said other children in Britain had been subjected to terrible ordeals after being accused of witchcraft, and children's charities and campaigners called for more to be done to make carers and churches aware of possible abuse.
(6) The majority of these works contain the implicit or explicit assumption that witchcraft was a cruel, irrational delusion that resulted in the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands or innocent victims (Anderson, 1970).
(7) An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga's eight-year-old son began child B's ordeal.
(8) "The pastor will say: 'No matter what your problems, I can solve them by protecting you against the evil forces of witchcraft'.
(9) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(10) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(11) Giving evidence through a French interpreter, Kelly said the pair were fixated on the idea that the three siblings were practising witchcraft.
(12) Immediately, accusations of witchcraft arose; many teams across central and western Africa are known to employ the services of witchdoctors to put curses on their opponents.
(13) In the case of "kokwana" it is said that the snake, "sent" to the child through witchcraft, "eats" the child's food and the child itself.
(14) Witchcraft had preoccupied Bikubi from an early age.
(15) Many Congolese people consider mental illness as a spiritual problem; belief in witchcraft is widespread.
(16) Each referent (divinity, ancestor, magic, witchcraft, etc.)
(17) The rural Xhosa people of South Africa have retained social cohesion through traditional custom, purity of language and the dominant role of ancestor worship, traditional medicine and witchcraft in life-style, beliefs and ceremonies.
(18) The indication was abdominal pain in 4 cases, infertility and abdominal pain in one and prophylaxis against witchcraft in the other.
(19) But child-protection specialists are increasingly coming across a kind of case that few textbooks have prepared them for: abuse of children related to belief in witchcraft.
(20) "He was reporting that his family at the time feared that if he went around saying these things he would be labelled as being affected by witchcraft."