Word: occultation
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...Graveyard On Halloween night just before the witching hour, I rose from Biology texts and stumbled across the Yard. Dressed in a purple rubberized rain suit from head to toe, I set off to the Old Burying Ground in search of the occult. The rain was falling in sheets. Leaping the iron fence with little finesse, I landed, fully expecting the Prince of Darkness to be waiting. I sat by a tree and watched as rain drops landed on silent tombstones. My adventurous spirit began to subside as the reality of this evening began to sink in. There were...
...sake, an act empty of any real schematic significance. The coupling of Michael and Mona represents a storyline which Rice fails to address later in the novel, a real throwaway moment in the next. The elements with which to craft an appealing tale of the occult, then, are all present in Lasher--but they are unsubstantiated and rarely developed to any real degree...
...Assistant Professor of the History of Science William R. Newman, who teaches a class on the history of the occult sciences, says the astrological predictions are not legitimate...
...salespeople at bookshops specializing in the occult say despite the academics' skepticism, they have seen no slacking off of demand for astrology books and readings...
...Some people really believe it determines your life," says a salesperson at Arsenic and Old Lace, a bookshop with a large stock of resources on the occult...