Word: occultation
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...laughs till the tears of dust run down his stony cheeks. "You have fed me," he says then, "and you have even made me laugh. For that I shall give you what no man has ever had before." A spring leaps out of the ground, and with its occult water, Death replenishes Macario's gourd. "With this water," he says solemnly, "you can cure any illness-if I don't object...
They spread a story that a gang of whites with occult powers was kidnaping native men and women and turning them into pigs to feed the inhabitants of a land called Burumatare. Tribesmen were told that the whites roam the countryside with a machine that looks like a camera but which actually makes an indelible mark on the bodies of potential victims. Later a lorry arrives. When its horn blows, all those marked will be irresistibly drawn toward it and abducted, later to be injected with a solution that transforms them immediately into swine. "We must believe that the Europeans...
...prosperous Sydney poultry farmer, Mackenzie earns a good living by chicken sexing, the occult craft of sorting out fluffy, day-old chicks by sex. A crack schoolboy rower, Mackenzie took up the individual sculls four months before the 1956 Olympics, learned fast enough to win a silver medal...
...back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the gifts: gold for Christ's kingship, frankincense for his priesthood, and healing myrrh for his suffering and his role as physician to mankind. The Wise Men, or Magi, may have been members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when tradition turned them into kings and gave them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King...
...individual who falls asleep in class attributes this either to his own tiredness or to the dullness of lecture, and yet were sleep to be hypnotically induced, the subject would tend to blame this on the "occult" powers of the hypnotist. In reality, what happens in hypnosis depends more on the person under hypnosis than it does on the hypnotist...