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  • ...of "twenty-foot" creatures, standing in a circle and chanting, as if in a religious ritual. One of them was beating a hollow tree trunk, as a drum; on their f ..."Nyalmo". The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Anomalist Books.
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  • "Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Lo ...fell in love, and left without being ordained. He wrote a number of minor religious works: ''Des Moeurs et des Doctrines du Rationalisme en France'' ("Of the M
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  • ...some to be a 'grey' area, perhaps larger than any other in the realm of [[Religious|religion]]. It can deal with subjects ranging from talismans, magic(altern ...odern age, it is important for the student to question the validity of all books and to cross reference numerous times with other authors on the same subjec
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  • ==== Religious etymology ==== ...rlatanism. As a result, the superstitio became synonymous with "despisable religious beliefs", as antithetic with 'religio', the accepted official or traditiona
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  • ...e="summerswerejaguartiger">Summers, Montague. ''The Werewolf'' (University Books; 1966) p21</ref> The word "werecat" was not coined until the late 19th cent ...<ref name="hamelwitchwerecats">Hamel, Frank. ''Human Animals'' (University Books; 1969) pp7, 103–109</ref> During the witch trials, official Church doctri
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  • ...born October 4th 1941) is a best-selling American author of horror/fantasy books. She was born '''Howard Allen O'Brien'''. Best known for her [[Vampire Chro ...storic themes into the dense pattern of her books. To her admirers, Rice's books are among the best in modern popular fiction, possessing those elements tha
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  • '''Yazidis''' are an ethnical group and a religious sect of Krudistan in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, accused of being de In their religious beliefs the Yezidis consider Christ to be an angel in human form, and Moham
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  • ...ill, (best known as "Tuella") who channeled messages and wrote a series of books on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite Tuella's influences, several *Lewis, James R (2004), ''The Oxford handbook of new religious movements'', Oxford, ISBN 9780195149869
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  • ...mingling, elements of various [[Jew]]ish, [[Christian]], and European folk religious and magical practices have also found their way into hoodoo. ...reatment of disease, employment, and [[necromancy]]. As in many other folk religious, magical, and medical practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals,
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  • ...e world, and might to some extent still be found within Neo- spiritual and religious movements such as "Druidry" and Ásatrú. The belief in spiritual beings, p *In the Artemis Fowl series of books, Chix Verbil is a sprite that is wounded and rendered unable to fly by that
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  • ...presents an ensemble of mythic elements coming from different cultural and religious situations. ...anslation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts. Bantam Books.
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  • *[[Leviathan]]: attacks Christian religious beliefs; adversary, St. Peter ...ation of demons by month seems to have astrological implications more than religious ones.
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  • ...aknesses. These have included firearms with silver ammunition, appropriate religious symbols, crossbows that fire all wood bolts and waterguns filled with bless ...of ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'' and Blade of the ''[[Blade]]'' series of comic books and movies.
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  • ...aterial for these manuals is apparently derived from scholarly magical and religious texts from a variety of sources in many languages, it is easy to conclude t == Books and articles==
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  • ...e=Dictionary of English Folklore| year=2000| pages= 254}}</ref>. Not every religious narrative is a myth however; unless it is deeply rooted in tradition, it m ...ll as most [[Neopaganism|Neopagan]]s, have no problem characterizing their religious texts as mythical.
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  • ...era, when it appeared as a decorative motif in and on many buildings, both religious and secular. American architects took up the motif around the same time. *Hicks, Clive ''The Green Man: A Field Guide'', Compass Books (August 2000) ISBN 0-95170-382-X
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  • In this entire body of myth and legend, which includes books, folktales, and plays, the souls described can be roughly divided into thre ...complete an important task, to fulfil a promise, or to perform a Mitzva (a religious duty) that can only be accomplished in the flesh.
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  • ...k is represented by Father Gabriele Amorth who has written two instructive books on his personal experiences as an exorcist for the Vatican: An Exorcist Tel ...d Lauren Stratford whose stories have subsequently influenced many popular books about spiritual warfare and the occult. Bill Ellis' work Raising the Devil
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  • ...Latin, but also in every major European language. It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language; Caxton's version appeared i [[Category:Religious books]]
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  • ...books, which feature Lestat prominently, are especially popular; the later books have been criticized as having lost some of the sparkle and vitality of the ==Books in the series==
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