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Despite a dearth of physical evidence, and no known connection to anything occult, Knox was accused by an overzealous prosecutor of killing her roommate in an occult ritual.
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But over the intervening years, with more young women embracing the occult, paganism, and crystal work, it occurred to me: Are young men also tantalized by the occult?
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Curated by Pam Grossman of Phantasmaphile, the exhibition coincides with February's Occult Humanities Conference at NYU, which will further explore alchemy, spiritualism, witchcraft, and other occult influences on art.
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In case you were wondering, the spelling of magick with the "k" comes from occult OG Aleister Crowley and it's used to differentiate between stage magic and occult magick.
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Meanwhile, preeminent 20th century occult artist Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995) opened her own doors of perception through peyote and her associations with another fascinating LA occult figure, Jack Parsons.
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After all, the occult revival of the 19th century revolved around absinthe and opium dens, and the second big occult revival happened during the drug-crazed days of the 1960s and 70s.
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Is it a community of knowledge or of the occult?
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He was also, some fans remember, dabbling in the occult.
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"Words like 'occult,' or 'esoteric,' are so forbidding," Pellerano said.
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"I like the occult and I like activism," she said.
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Garson first explored the concept of the occult on Black Lucifer Mass in 1971, but of his occult albums I prefer Ataxaria The Unexplained, which is meant to soundtrack mantras of your own choice.
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There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and the occult.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is adolescent melodrama mixed with occult horror.
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Most were available at Brooklyn's Catland, a store for occult sundries.
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As she starts dancing, her occult powers expand, with bloody results.
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Kagjanich's screenplay elaborately expands the occult elements of the original screenplay.
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He's the latest specimen of a rare breed: the occult heel.
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But Barker never once spoke of his interest in the occult.
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Interest in the occult rises during periods of transition and disillusion.
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Of course, witchcraft, Wicca, and the occult never really went away.
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Occult Anarchist Propaganda fans blasphemy's black flames with a Molotov cocktail.
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Broadly's editors had heard about me through the Brooklyn occult scene.
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You've come to praise a new kind of occult: the hybrid.
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Instead, this exhibition narrates h/er life's journey into the occult.
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"They called it voodoo, occult," he said of the store's inventory.
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Fashion retailers aren't the only ones commodifying indigenous spirituality and the occult.
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Instead, Rachelle Bond was the one obsessed with the occult, Shapiro said.
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The occult, whether imagined or not, is abundantly real to the Puritans.
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The most famous occult heel is the Undertaker, who needs no introduction.
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Other neighbors expressed bewilderment at reports linking the death with occult practices.
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DeLillo has always dealt with the most occult strata of knowledge and
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Or, perhaps, the occult has never really been scary to begin with.
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He's a really well read guy with a lot of occult information.
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Ms. Madara is amused at the current vogue for all things occult.
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The occult is, it seems, hidden in every corner of the city.
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Were you inspired to make a film about witchcraft and the occult?
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We don't have a message—especially no retro-rock occult bullshit message.
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We've been asked by several magazines, 'Yeah, your lyrics seem very occult.
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Stavers extends this occult view of innocence and enchantment into the present.
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Astrology would be as pedestrian as my esoteric and occult interests go.
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Anti-occult crusaders like Pat Pulling, who believed her son committed suicide because of an evil Dungeons and Dragons curse, crusaded against roleplaying games as dangerous and demonic, backed by occult fear-mongering from Chick and his Chick Tracts.
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Historically, the trill has acquired associations with doom, gloom, and even the occult.
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The lure of occult power was not lost on girls who felt powerless.
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To say that the occult is having a cultural moment isn't quite accurate.
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CERN, some in the community believe, is a Satanic organization with occult ties.
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At face value, Hereditary works as an elegant genre film about the occult.
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The evangelical movement wasn't alone in its growing occult obsession and fear-mongering.
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And, perhaps most fascinating of all, there is the deference to the occult.
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The same things that inspire conspiracies today likely fueled these early occult panics.
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The 8chan thread contained numerous references to Qanon, the Illuminati, and the occult.
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The scares become haphazard as the occult menace of the film finally emerges.
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On one hand, maybe occult magic just doesn't scare like it used to.
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That's a lot more fun than "female-fronted occult stoner rock" or whatever.Totally.
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You'll find yourself drawn to the occult, hidden things, and mysterious places today.
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The occult suggests a knowledge not everyone possesses, shared through devotion to mystery.
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Like many practitioners of the spell, Doucette was interested in the occult before.
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So where does this leave our bowl of pasta, from an occult perspective?
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Police say the deaths were a mass suicide, most likely prompted by occult beliefs.
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Ghosts, specters, and the occult have mesmerized photographers since the beginning of photographic history.
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This is more evidence that pricing an IPO is an occult art of sorts.
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They just released an occult-inspired "Magick & Novelties" set of pins with corresponding patches.
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I'm not very well-versed in the occult, so I'm definitely missing some things.
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"I embraced it completely as an occult thing," she said, referring to her music.
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And the answers — ranging from the occult to the mundane — always seem to disappoint.
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Four years earlier, Canna Occult uses a 532nm 300mw laser to smoke a bowl.
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Demons, genies, and evil spirits permeate ancient occult traditions in Iran and neighboring countries.
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China is, of course, not the only place where interest in the occult thrives.
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But if this is so, King is an occult Dreiser with his fly undone.
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Al Franken jokingly asked Hickenlooper whether the practice was part of an occult practice.
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It should be a tantalizing introduction to the work of an occult performance pioneer.
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Officials, stunned by the size of the demonstrations, insist occult forces are guiding them.
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But they're not the only pasta-friendly ingredient with a weird occult-related history.
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"Where does an occult-obsessed, viral-news-fabricating internet wizard go?" she asked me.
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Previously, the USPSTF recommended that people ages 50 to 75 be screened with either a colonoscopy, either of two stool analyses known as fecal immunochemical testing or high-sensitivity fecal occult blood testing, or flexible sigmoidoscopy combined with fecal occult blood test.
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In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art curated The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, an exhibition and corresponding book surveying occult photography from the 1860s through the 1940s, a period in which photographs were often used as "evidence" of the spirit world.
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Do you have a sense of why these occult practices flourished in Germany in particular?
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Sitting among cards and occult trinkets in the dark, they declare their authority and strength.
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All that said, I'm excited by today's occult and boho-inspired Nu-Goth styles too!
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Obsidian, also known as volcanic glass, has long been used in mystical and occult circles.
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Madonna, rising from a three storey weding cake like some kind of occult dominatrix queen.
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Jazz-age eccentrics like Aleister Crowley took it as a direct line to the occult.
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In the 1960s and 70s occult revival, there was barely any access to good information.
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In 2423 she began meeting regularly with four other female artists to pursue occult practices.
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The covers were spotted with suntan oil and vibrated with the promise of occult knowledge.
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But Reagan's embrace of the religious right made up for his dalliances with the occult.
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Many of the coded references are personal, mixed with ones that are political and occult.
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A supporter began assembling an "Orbgang Chaos Magician Starter Pack" on Photoshop featuring occult objects.
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His mother, who had an interest in the occult, was a defeated and recessive figure.
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Its executive director, Brian Ricklin, was skeptical that the design had any occult significance whatsoever.
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Despite the deep historical roots of magic, however, practitioners of the occult continue to look to the future in order to find ways in which they are able to succesfully practice magic, and in this way, the occult itself remains a perennially modern phenomenon.
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Morgan's dedicated interest in the occult and cycles of life and rebirth have been well documented.
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Despite her interest in the occult and meditation, there is also something direct in Essenhigh's attitude.
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It's more about the occult, and it felt that I didn't have to sidestep Lovecraft's hangups.
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In fact, the city has become a tourist destination of sorts for fans of the occult.
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Someone had strung up a gray dog by its four legs, possibly in an occult ceremony.
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As more Americans abandon organized religion, efforts to capitalize on the occult will almost certainly persist.
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She and her husband, Ed, traveled widely researching paranormal and occult phenomena, writing books and lecturing.
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It's a show about ordinary, exhausted Americans, sprinkled lightly with references to alchemy and occult ritual.
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Parsons also pursued a lifelong obsession with the occult, sex, and the intersection of the two.
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The school bristles with tension, and there are several odd dreamy sequences that suggest occult activities.
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Is there anything that actually suggests the Nazi leadership might have been interested in the occult?
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Two other Gen X stalwarts, Edge and Christian, got their start as occult heels, as well.
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Adapted from David Goodis's novel, "Dark Passage" is a movie of strange coincidences and occult connections.
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This may be why occult inflected pedophile panics don't seem to strike there as often now.
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Thus transporting Bacon to several actual occult occurrences that transpired at different times throughout human history.
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Out of all the pioneers – the Tangerine Dreams, the John Carpenters – Goblin sound the most occult.
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As for whether First Ladies disproportionately dabble in the occult, Krider thinks there's no significant difference.
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Mr. Abrams's interests included not just music theory but also occult arts, esoteric religions and painting.
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In the wake of her father's death, Leah (Nicole Muñoz) develops a fascination with the occult.
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Catland Books, an occult bookshop in Bushwick, Brooklyn, offers weekly workshops, drawing a younger, trendier crowd.
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Got an interesting story about the intersection of technology with magic, mysticism, faith or the occult?
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In occult-speak, there is a term for a type of magic that I love: apotropaic.
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But not everyone in the occult community takes issue with Hocus Pocus, recognizing its campy appeal.
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These West Coasts believed in the occult, magic, and consulted the tarot cards of Aleister Crowley.
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In 20153, fears of the occult and Satanism fueled complaints about the Harry Potter book series.
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I haven't seen or even have any knowledge of any occult activities taking place around here.
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In Green's library of occult manuscripts, Rush writes that he studied mystery schools, aliens, and occultism.
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SOMEWHERE between occult Turin and stuffy bourgeois Turin — though not unconnected with either — is artistic Turin.
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In 2002, fears of the occult and Satanism fueled complaints about the Harry Potter book series.
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Goop staffers also tried energy healing with a chiropractor, and Loehnen described her experience as occult.
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The man who would become Chicken Delicious would bear witness to a chapter of occult history.
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However, it was exactly their occult associations that made Echols an outsider in West Memphis, Arkansas.
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For the most part, though, Satanism in India seems to be an affect—a blend of goth aesthetic and interest in the occult that has less to do with the country's indigenous occult practices, and more to do with Hollywood films like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
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Why do you think it's important to embrace the occult, witchcraft, and alternate models of female spirituality?
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Modern-day Palo Santo is usually sold alongside other occult goods as a bundle of incense sticks.
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For the visually impaired, however, things can be a bit more complicated and, in Amazon's case, occult.
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Mysterious, occult stuff will turn you on now, so break out your Ouija board or tarot cards!
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The ethics of hexing and cursing are pretty hotly debated in the witchcraft and occult community today.
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Some elements like the face's "third eye" and the Sauron-like sconces borderline on occult flavor. pic.twitter.
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I was a weird kid: artsy, fay, obsessed with conspiracies, science fiction, Ayn Rand, and the occult.
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It's a surprisingly useful tool, capable of doing everything from opening retrofuturistic padlocks to performing occult rituals.
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The fear in occult circles is that once you summon a demon you cannot close the connection.
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In Himmler's specific case, that seems to have taken on an esoteric or occult coloring to it.
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Daoism, which originated in China around the fourth century B.C., introduced practices of occult medicine and exorcism.
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For centuries, people in Finland have been brewing sahti—an occult drink with lots of pagan nuances.
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William James died in 1910 without having ceased to urge an open-minded respect for occult convictions.
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Within this sheltered world, I wasn't allowed to watch He-Man because it dealt in occult themes.
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"Nu Goth" probably inspires me more because it's more about the occult, and the fashion is amazing.
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Over the next seven years he tries to use advanced scientific techniques with mystical occult-ish practices.
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You don't need an occult story about how your side is secretly winning if it's actually winning.
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The son of a miller with a dangerous interest in occult magic, Tyll learns to survive early.
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The country's repressed anxieties found their outlet in the specter of psychotic clowns and the unknown occult.
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Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities.
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The statue is perched upon a historic colonial-style house, filled with occult and diabolical-themed art.
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I've been thinking about it, since I know you explore relationships between the Occult and modernist art.
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Do you slow down when you pass by your local occult shop but never take a look inside?
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With a deep love of the occult, the alien and the androgynous, his style inspired countless other artists.
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Could Gechtoff be transforming the diagrams of the occult English Renaissance cosmologist, Robert Fludd, into a visionary abstraction?
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Performers are always channeling some or another character, but they more often dabble in drama than the occult.
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Frank Stella's dictum, "What you see is what you see," helped to obscure the occult side of abstraction.
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Dads who are into the occult, UFOs, and conspiracy theories luck out if they have an Aquarian daughter.
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Troy's style gravitates more towards the '70s and '80s, using themes of psychedelic drugs, the occult, and satanism.
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Or what if occult rock embraced du-wop instead of the emerging rock n' roll of the day?
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The media, too, played a huge role in stoking the public's fear and fueling misconceptions surrounding occult practices.
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He was a philosophical poet who insisted that his poetry was dictated by a daimonion, an occult power.
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Following a 2014 split with Skin Horse, Book of Sand's latest release, Occult Anarchist Propaganda, is exactly that.
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Characters die from cholera and measles and smallpox, from shipwrecks and scalpings and botched amputations and occult tortures.
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He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine.
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From the paranormal to the occult, these phenomena and experiences already exist in cultural life as social facts.
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There's something incredibly comforting about the occult, about witches and ghosts and crystals, that can clear your head.
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Mixing occult powers and 3D printing technology, Wynn Mustin's new collection of jewelry isn't your typical accessory line.
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How does this work alongside your practice with witchcraft, the occult and experiences that can't truly be documented?
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Pluto, the lord of the underworld, is all about what's beneath the surface: secrets, hidden resources, occult knowledge.
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By carefully choreographing the relationship between the obvious and the occult, Shtini animates his paintings with considerable mystery.
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Here, that means Paris in the '60s, love affairs, a flirtation with the occult and a shocking crime.
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While not all art on the website is related to the occult, its founders curate Witchsy's entire stock.
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Expect to be drawn to the occult during this time; your Ouija board will likely be dusted off.
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Maybe Clinton's campaign chairman takes part in occult rituals in which bodily fluids are consumed, maybe he doesn't.
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Although Yeats is the exemplary case among occult-oriented modernist writers, T. S. Eliot also deserves a glance.
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The police released a statement late in the day suggesting some kind of occult practice had been followed.
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A Daily Wire writer caused a Twitter firestorm Thursday after comparing yoga to occult rituals like Ouija boards.
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" And on a broadcast with the conspiracy site Infowars, he referred to the image as an "occult symbol.
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An occult puzzle box that yields its secrets and reveals its layers only gradually and after countless false starts.
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Timber Timbre's wheelhouse was typically steeped in the folk, blues spirit, drawing on the occult and uncanny, at times.
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What are the misconceptions in depiction of the Nazi infatuation with the occult that you want to clear up?
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It turns out, grandma was into some high-level occult shit, with hauntings, and possessions all on the menu.
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The 24 hours were broken up into four sections, each with an occult connotation: Invocation, Dedication, Purge, and Prayer.
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Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics.
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Satan and the occult are a path to experimentation rather than anything to do with wanting to cause harm.
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Folklore, mythology, fairy tales, religion, at times the occult — these are the things that I'm the most interested in.
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"There are periods of greater interest in the occult and then other periods, when it goes underground," Horigan says.
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Their perceived ties to the occult, however, raised suspicion in their small Arkansas town that they were satanic killers.
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He joined Thelema, the occult movement founded by British occultist Aleister Crowley, and took over the movement's California branch.
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Its downtown has the Salem Witch Museum and occult shops, which draw tourists ahead of Halloween on Oct. 31.
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Right. Alternate spiritual practices such as study of the occult, witchcraft, and magic have always been feared and demonized.
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They're an easy way to make people think you're linked to the Illuminati or some other secretive, occult force.
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The task force recommended screening with colonoscopy, stool analyses or flexible sigmoidoscopy combined with a fecal-occult blood test.
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") The closest White strays into the occult: "Something (or maybe it was Nothing) had stunned him into eternal youth.
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With such an occult hero, "Chandu the Magician" anticipates "Doctor Strange," the coming movie based on the Marvel character.
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The name has been used in modern times by some people affiliated with occult groups that use Egyptian symbols.
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Like a coin toss that keeps coming up heads, iterated titles suggest an occult lucky streak bound to break.
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Perhaps light on substance, but who needs that when rocket jumping to the balcony of an occult military facility?
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While heavy metal threatened their teenagers, parents were simultaneously guarding their younger children from the occult influence in cartoons.
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A Ouija board hangs crooked on the wall, near a purple crystal and an uneven pile of occult books.
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Rattle thus announced his intention to modernize an ensemble famed for its almost occult command of the core repertory.
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Money in "Atlanta" is like an occult force, flowing through everything but accessible only through arcane arts and invocations.
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On the other, they won, which makes it seem as if they must possess some sort of occult genius.
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"As a woman, sometimes I feel disempowered in this society," Ms. Graham said, explaining her interest in the occult.
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It is an offering of thanks by Bransford, Salmon, and myself to those occult artists who came before us.
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With "Ninth House," out on Tuesday, she imagines occult versions of the secret societies at Yale, her alma mater.
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His pilgrimages ultimately took him to St. Petersburg, which was in the thrall of the occult and the supernatural.
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Spoiler alert: The secret societies turn out to be up to their elbows in the dark and the occult.
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Some sources claimed that the practice is descended from an occult cooking rite originally used in the early 20th century.
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Modern black metal's customary lip service to certain spiritual or occult influences often feels forced, or hollow; not so here.
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I've always been into magic, I've always been into the occult, because it allows me to question my own reality.
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In the years after its initial release in 1974, D&D was accused of being a gateway to the occult.
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This suggests that the order of events may be random, serendipitous, a matter of occult meaning rather than chronological sequence.
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The event, which is being held at occult bookstore Catland Books, will target "all rapists," according to the Eventbrite page.
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I use my platform as a way to educate babes on truth and de-stigmatize the concepts of the occult.
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Star Wars, for instance, borrowed the Force from witchcraft, while Scooby-Doo's paranormal investigations were really endorsements of the occult.
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In an age when everything is re-packaged for the internet, from taxi-cabs to healthcare, why not the occult?
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The Thai occult tradition of kuman thong represents the integral role that supernatural folklore continues to play in modern life.
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When she died in 1986, Webb inherited and dipped deeply into her personal library, which included books about the occult.
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It appears to be a typical New England college, but elements of the occult are never far from the surface.
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For example, Scorpios, my sun sign, are known for being obsessive, mysterious, and fascinated by sex, death, and the occult.
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Elaine directs her magic at a college professor, a friend's fiancé and, finally, a macho detective investigating occult goings-on.
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The occult mania that crested in the decades before the First World War had been intensifying throughout the nineteenth century.
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Shows like "The Thin Place" and "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" use the occult to put on a show. Listen.
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Catland Books, an occult bookshop and community space in Brooklyn, has organized not one but two mass hexes on Kavanaugh.
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It did not help that her work made forays into "strange" topics like the occult and unabashedly portrayed female sexuality.
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The titular cleaner is a self-described "impresario," cleaning coins and arranging them in strange patterns, alluding to occult symbology.
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Jones, we've heard a great deal about you … professor of archaeology, expert on the occult and, how does one say it?
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The occult allows women to embrace their darker sides, and the idea of the sociopathic or evil women can be powerful.
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" Her father was an antique dealer with a penchant for collecting occult objects, "like weird, giant bloody Jesuses and voodoo dolls.
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Ms. Roberts-as-Seth lectured on a sprawling mix of occult topics, and regaled the crowd with tales of past lives.
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Scorpio is an intuitive water sign, and most are curious about the occult, and the veil is thin during their season!
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These movies have been credited with influencing young girls to take an interest in the occult and precipitated its commercialization today.
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One YouTuber named Barnabas Nagy proceeded to point out examples of some sort of occult activity and numerology in the video.
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From its viscera-smeared interlocking floor tiles to its death-metal-occult iconography, it exudes gore and grittiness from every pore.
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In some, you'll find small towns with occult secrets, in others, a dash of '80s sensibilities or episodes oozing with creepiness.
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A number of factors contributed to the increased interest in, and fear of, the occult during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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The Bohemian Grove has also attracted a number of protestors who aren't concerned with the allegedly occult aspects of the proceedings.
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The whole thing was shot and edited on an iPhone by director Julian Z, and serves up some serious occult vibes.
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His dream prophecies were not, he insisted, the result of voices from the dead or instances of occult or astral communication.
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Dead deeply cared about his band and his music, something that was as well-known as his predilection for the occult.
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The event, which is being held at occult bookstore Catland Books, will target "all rapists," according to the event's Eventbrite page.
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Why do so many characters point fingers, either as a meaningful gesture—perhaps occult, as a hex—or at things unseen?
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Growing up, in my dad's library, there were a couple of books about occult practices, which led me to other research.
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Where does history (which the far-future totalitarians of this novel consider a form of "the occult") end and fiction begin?
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Her reputation as a benevolent if eccentric source of occult knowledge grew outside of the Wicca community into the wider world.
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Frost has also used the technique to capture riots, paint occult-looking symbols on abandoned buildings, and achieve other unique effects.
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But in the midst of all those earnest declarations, Alkaline Trio was busy throwing themselves into the realm of the occult.
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In the 60s and the 70s, occult films like The Devil Rides Out and The Wicker Man dominated the horror genre.
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" Several factors inform the imagery that Varrone chooses, including: "folk tales, mythology, the occult, current fashion trends, personal relationships, the season.
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He's a very eclectic, very well-studied occult author, a spiritual descendent of Aleister Crowley, a lot of interesting stories there.
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Here, he discovered an eclectic scene of drug-fueled club parties and scattered salons where eccentrics met to discuss occult spirituality.
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The early-autumn light was sumptuous and fell at an angle across shelves filled with books about the occult and magic.
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Square also prohibits sale of "occult materials," PayPal bars the sale of "sexually oriented digital goods"; both forbid drug paraphernalia sales.
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"Conjuring" (2017) suggests that if the lottery doesn't pan out, then perhaps occult practice will shed light on one's financial problems.
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And yet, these occult practices continue to thrive not just in Iran, but also in neighboring countries, according to Karjoo-Ravary.
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After she was released, she immersed herself in it, drawing inspiration for her songs from books about religion and the occult.
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The company denied any involvement with the "missing children, nor any nefarious, criminal, illegal, or occult activities" on its company website.
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He is now known mainly to scholars of Symbolism, connoisseurs of the occult, and devotees of the music of Erik Satie.
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He later edited books on the occult and published Other Scenes, an underground magazine offering travel tips, poetry and social commentary.
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And this show has had some great over-the-top sequences — the occult walk-in closet last season was a standout.
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The Emmy-winning "Trollhunters" balances action-packed kids fare with heady themes and stories about the occult, myths, and hunting trolls.
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Humans have always been fascinated with numbers and the idea that certain numbers carry a deep spiritual, esoteric, or occult significance.
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The reason I mention these details is to underscore my interest in non-mainstream art, avant-garde film, and the occult.
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For example, flexible sigmoidoscopy should be repeated every five years, or every 10 years if it's combined with fecal occult blood testing.
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This is a city that conspiracy theorists believe has occult symbolism built into its design, making it quite literally a hell mouth.
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The last post publicly available was a mock-up of the European Championship logo highlighting the posters' purported masonic and occult symbols.
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We still have no idea, but the dizzying occult references in the the trailer could harken to some sort of divine entity.
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Twin flames are mentioned in occult practices, astrology, and the very complicated world of soul science (which applies scientific thought to spirituality).
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Numerous friends gave Explosion rose quartz, a stone associated in some New Age and occult traditions with heart healing, as a gift.
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Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, the debut publication from the new imprint Ignota Books, takes that truth to a whole new dimension.
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Now, nearly three years later, the occult death doom entity turned funerary force has returned with an oppressive new album named Backwater.
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As her own understanding of tarot and other esoteric disciplines grew, Boyd's subjects changed to reflect her widening embrace of the occult.
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As one might assume, it's a powerful document of occult death, and a fitting epitaph for one of the genre's mightiest titans.
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Most contemporary artists are drawn toward them for their flexible diversity (they have hundreds of 'sexes') and their occult, psychedelic-spiritual qualities.
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Kate Dwyer: We were inspired because we heard Etsy was going to start kicking people off their site for selling "occult" items.
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His occult side came through loud and clear in the dozens of hours of extra content that 221-broadcasting required every week.
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Throughout most of the late '90s and early 20043s, I spent most of my time in the occult section of the bookstore!
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Can Marvel successfully design a blockbuster around a hero who doesn't have superpowers or a super-suit — but uses occult magic instead?
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Cut an apple in half, and you will find a five-pointed star, or pentagram, often associated with Satanism and the occult.
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Occult-obsessed, gear-loving Dutch producer, Legowelt, has shared a radioactive remix of a very early Chicago house track by Jackmaster Curt.
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And while Clinton's "imaginative exercises" could barely be considered spiritual or occult practices, her fake chats with Roosevelt were much chided, too.
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Check it out: The trailer has been garnering buzz from horror fans for its creepy atmosphere and unique take on the occult.
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Meanwhile, on 13th Old Street, the mysterious Zack runs a shop called From Beyond, which has been tenuously linked to the occult.
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The answer, it seems, might lie with the museum's namesake, Edmund Wright, a 19th-century thinker with a taste for the occult.
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Young women are now embracing benign occult representations, reclaiming the rites and ceremonies that women were once chastised (or worse) for performing.
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Upon entering, you're greeted with enormous, geometric murals in flat blocks of color, instantly recognizable as in some way spiritual, even occult.
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Thornton's art is the result of his research into the ways different religious traditions convey the underlying nature of mystical and occult experiences.
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Schumacher, who is familiar with occult symbolism and numerology, sprinkled this knowledge throughout the film to again appeal to those in the know.
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The ritual ties everything from apocalyptic prophecy to individual self-improvement in a web of conspiracy theories, new-age beliefs, and occult ideas.
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The book, as displayed in the show, is heavy with symbolist ornament and features a mystical protecting goddess among other esoteric occult themes.
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"We are seeing an increase in demonic possession because people are dabbling in the occult and involving more people in it," said Maginot.
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Currently, all Canadian programs recommend screening using stool tests, with so-called guaiac fecal occult blood testing (gFOBT) or fecal immunochemical testing (FIT).
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But the occult-related belongings left behind by Annie's mother, whose memory continues to cast a shadow over the Grahams' house, suggests another.
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Its founders are Foxy and Lucius, two practicing witches who were growing frustrated with both London's alternative club scene and its occult scene.
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"As the Moon begins to occult the Sun more and more, you will need to lengthen the exposure a little bit," Starr says.
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Three exhibitions currently on view in Los Angeles explore horror, dark fantasy, and the occult, which is perfect timing for this Halloween season.
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Like I said, if you don't know about the occult to some degree, it's hard to decipher a lot of 19th century literature.
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The album will be released on cassette by US-based label Occult Whispers and on CD by Granite Factory Records on February 15.
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When Sabrina's friends find out she practices magic, they're unsettled by her ties to the occult and unsure how to behave around her.
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The truth, however, is that the occult — be it witchcraft, astrology, or magic generally — has cycled in and out of popularity for centuries.
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That real-life doll that inspired the movies is on exhibit at the Warrens' Occult Museum, located at their home in Monroe, Connecticut.
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Armed with your own mysterious spectral abilities, you will face down the occult, unravel conspiracy theories and experience urban legends like never before.
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Daniela recently lost her father, so she's eager to experiment with the occult in order to hopefully contact him from beyond the grave.
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The sector of your chart that rules intimacy, shared resources, transformation, and the occult is being magnified by the Moon in philosophical Sagittarius.
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Cancers love being gifted anything and everything that has to do with the occult, whether that's candles, crystals, or a new tarot deck.
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a take on Sabrina the Teenage Witch that dives into the darkness of witchcraft and the occult.
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With thousands of reviews on some of the top occult apps, it's clear many of these programs have amassed a large user base.
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Krotona Institute of Theosophy has an occult library worth poking around, especially for the chance to read and get contemplative in its garden.
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Such was his fame for the occult that it was later rumoured that he had murdered her with wine laced with viper venom.
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One, called the guaiac-based fecal occult blood test, is based on a chemical reaction that can find hidden blood in the stool.
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There's an exhilaration in successfully violating deeply held taboos, a profound sense of power and freedom, the rush that comes with occult knowledge.
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But where Hereditary really loses itself is in its transition from psychological terror and familial horror, to that of the occult and unknown.
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By the end of the day, he would gather with other artists, all of whom were deep in their own occult-related practices.
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Aquatic Occult is officially out April 8 (with preorders available now), but we've got it streaming in its bleak, sludgy entirety right here.
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He posts frequently about the occult and about his garden and has taken to vlogging in a leather jacket with no shirt underneath.
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" (Juju is an ancient Nigerian belief of the occult.) "We had to swear to an old woman –a sorcerer– that we wouldn't run.
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While I was raised nominally Christian, worshipping in the Methodist churches of rural Indiana, the occult has always been a part of me.
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"In addition to being a tremendously sensitive painter and relatively undersung Surrealist, Seligmann was an aficionado of occult symbols and systems," Grossman stated.
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This mixture of science fiction, the occult, secondary school sociology, kids good and bad and genetics turns out to be an extraordinary mixture.
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Her benefactors ask that she find out all she can about the school's secret societies — and all of their sinister, even occult, activities.
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"Witches U.S.A.," a popular book in the early 1970s that chronicled America's occult scene at the time, devoted a full chapter to him.
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To most, the heart is a charming architectural flourish, but to others, like Migene González-Wippler, it is indisputable proof of occult activity.
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With Occult Anarchist Propaganda, Book of Sand has issued a challenge, a call to arms, and a damn fine black metal album besides.
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At the same time, the mummy in turn-of-the-century literature coincided with the rise of weird fiction with exotic occult overtones.
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D, is part of a series of lectures at the Morbid Anatomy Museum focusing on the intersection between art, psychoanalysis, and the occult.
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And they're definitely running that really hard through this very fictitious link to these occult themes and reading quite a lot into it.
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At Day for Night festival, Damien Echols invited visitors to engage with the occult symbols that helped lead to his wrongful murder conviction.
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In later decades, artists have manifested their enthusiasm for the occult through an all-pervading atmosphere that cuts across their oeuvre: Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia's dark tribal trance, Xosar's occult-inspired techno or the ambient sounds of The Haxan Cloak come to mind, while genres such as witch house and hauntology have emerged as fully-formed musical disciples of the dark arts.
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For many, paganism and the occult are appealing because of their open-minded attitudes about gender and sexuality, especially in comparison with most mainstream religions: "I think it's interesting that the largest religions in the US are monotheistic, with a deity most often depicted as male," said F. Jennings one of the owners of Catland Books, an occult bookstore in Brooklyn.
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From occult and pagan lore to American history and yes, Hollywood, solar eclipses have been harbingers of doom, transformation, and revolution since time immemorial.
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In fact, people have celebrated the equinox since way back in Ancient Greece, according to Fred Jennings of Catland, Brooklyn's go-to occult bookshop.
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It is only about witches inasmuch as it disparages them, advocates for their public assassination, and promotes the triumph of Christianity over the occult.
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The events attracted the attention of Detective Don Rimer, a notorious "occult crime expert," who confiscated all of Jonathan's books on witchcraft as evidence.
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You're watching a thriller or reading this book where the main character is struggling with this occult problem, and then suddenly it's revealed — aha!
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Tap into lunar energy by carrying moonstones or pearls, and brush up on your occult studies; read about psychic development and psychic self-defense.
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Related: How to Conjure Friends and Influence Yourself Meet the Artists/Occultists Channeling the Death of Monsanto A Bespoke Occult Glyph for Every Quandary
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Related: A Bespoke Occult Glyph for Every Quandry Chilling Oil Paintings Conjure Images From the "Other Side" Magician-Computer Interaction Designer Makes Technoccult Artifacts
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Artist Sue de Beer's work has strong elements of mysticism and the occult, something she attributes partly to having grown up in Salem, Massachusetts.
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As I've noted previously, the album is a powerful document of occult death, and a fitting epitaph for one of the genre's mightiest titans.
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Throw in mysticism, black magic, the occult, astral travel, alternate realities and dimensions, and the study of dreams, and you've got plenty to analyze.
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"The [songs are] about magical fantasy, occult practices, and sexual politics," Alexander says, while moving his hands around in the air like a witch.
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The Fourth Way drew from, among other things, Zen Buddhism, Sufi Islam, and the occult; followers strove for unceasing self-awareness and self-mastery.
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Esoteric and occult traditions adopted the terms "right-hand path" and "left-hand path" to describe the two main (and opposing) approaches to magick.
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It is also likely that even after an occult panic fizzles out, low-level belief in it persists in pockets of these conspiratorial circles.
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Conjuring the rich history of occult rituals that preceded them, the members appeared on stage in thick cloaks, putrid incense drifting from the stage.
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Such coverage frequently came care of the exorcist and TV host Bob Larson, who frequently hosted Satanists on his anti-occult show Talk Back.
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The short novel follows Charles Thomas Tester, a Jazz Age Harlem hustler who sometimes transports occult material across the city for a quick buck.
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But while Clinton preferred to keep her scandalous activity tied to the here and now, other First Ladies weren't so dismissive of the occult.
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Related: Magician-Computer Interaction Designer Makes Technoccult Artifacts Witches as Women Empowered by the Occult Meet the Artists/Occultists Channeling the Death of Monsanto
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During the murder trial, prosecutors painted Mr. Echols as the ringleader of a satanic group that had murdered the boys in an occult ritual.
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She had long studied occult and spiritualist writings, including Rosicrucianism and Buddhism, and in 2212 she joined the Swedish Lodge of the Theosophical Society.
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Artists often arrive at Roadburn to perform one-off, rare shows, such as last year's performance of occult rockers Coven, their first in decades.
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"Women are stepping up together, loudly and publicly," writes Schaefer, a journalist whose subjects have ranged from the Korean beauty industry to the occult.
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Occult magic, icy tundras, bright red faces, Nazi-adjacent (or flat-out Nazi) troops… but resemblances aside, this my favorite Marvel movie thus far.
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Language of the Birds: Occult and Art continues at 80WSE Gallery (New York University, 80 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village, Manhattan) through February 13.
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Prosecutors never accused her of engaging in occult practices, but they said she manipulated government affairs from behind the scenes and for personal gain.
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If such megastructures exist within the Milky Way, they could be detectable from Earth because they would occult stars or other sources of light.
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It's not just the occult magic of the market that's enriching Ivanka Trump's children while health insurance premiums soar and public school budgets wither.
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Are we seeing a return to the occult in cinema with movies like The Witch, Kill List, and the heavily Judeo-Christian The Conjuring?
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We meet, again, hardscrabble poor folk and ambitious politicians; we find, again, creepy totems left at the crime scene and intimations of the occult.
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As a collector of all things of the occult and morbid, she lives up to the mythology of the creepy house she calls home.
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Family Guy and Harry Potter came in for criticism as well: One is a proponent of degenerate values; the other is evil occult witchcraft.
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In addition, Munch brought to his work an up-to-the-minute content, new-century attitudes toward sex, psychological disturbance, occult spirituality and utopian politics.
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The Catholic Church attributes the rise of demonic activity to people dabbling in the occult, particularly through the use of tarot cards and Ouija boards.
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The third type are Egregore, which is an occult concept of a thought form that humans bring into existence though their own energy and will.
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With each step I take through the game, and up the ladder of occult mysteries that I'm climbing, I get more uncertain about my motivations.
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And since the witchcraft in the movie was so closely resembling real occult rituals and customs, the more teens investigated, the more they were curious.
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In very rural England, a very private woman rents a very big house in which to hold a very mysterious occult ritual for six months.
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It will put players in the shoes of assassin Billie Lurk, who sets out to murder the man responsible for the Dishonored universe's occult sorcery.
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Three exhibitions currently on view in Los Angeles present complementary visions of horror, dark fantasy, and the occult more in keeping with the holiday's origins.
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For years before his disappearance, he was moonlighting as an archeologist of the occult, tracing folklore and myth back to their origins and collecting artifacts.
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Many visionaries have elected this area to settle after recognizing an occult dimension within the everyday world of appearances so present on this beautiful landscape.
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It's not spoiling anything to say that "Her Only Living Son" is a direct homage to Roman Polanski and Ira Levin's occult classic Rosemary's Baby.
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Aesthetically these images seem to have a strong connection to the occult, as the women they focus on appear to have magical or witchlike endowments.
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They object to its sexuality, violence, and references to the occult, and so they need to find a way to weave in a positive message.
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As such, Kupka's paintings are not only eye-catching but can be appreciated as objects of occult ritual riffing on non-humanist modes of expression.
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And the uncanny appearance of Bowie's eyes was ideal for a performer who embraced ideas of the alien, the outsider, the otherworldly and the occult.
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Defense attorney Shapiro said McCarthy was not obsessed with the occult and Satanism, and said that he was a good father who cared for Bella.
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Occult Anarchist Propaganda is out Mrch 25 via Mouthbreather Records; preorders are up now, and you can stream it in all its radical might below.
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He follows a long line of rappers who take on a potentially occult name like 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, The Game, Eminem, Jay-Z, etc.
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Writing, she argues, is an occult skill, a gift of invention and empathy, which few people possess and which can be nurtured but not taught.
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The movie reaches downward, to Germany's ugly past treatment of bodies, and upward, to a mental realm of ritual and symbol: Freudian, creative, and occult.
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The third book in Lock's American Novels series takes a scalpel to Edgar Allan Poe and his fetish for the grotesque underworld of occult phenomena.
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Along the route participants will hear urban folklore, little-known historical facts and find out how the area relates to the unknown and the occult.
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More recently than Shannon, Arkansas artist Guy Bell has taken the concepts of magnetic levitation into the world of surveillance, conspiracy theories, and the occult.
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Devi was a Greek national who became prominent in Ariosophisty, a set of occult traditions that mythologize European peoples as descended from the "original" Aryans.
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Although his images are jammed with religious and occult references, he's more interested in the feelings they conjure than in any overt idea or message.
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From out of this "just rebel" archetype arose also the more "occult" Luciferian/Promethean archetype, the one that demands people to be their own masters.
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Although the leaders of Nazi Germany were obsessed with Paganism and the occult, it has largely been associated with multiculturalism here in the United States.
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An aspiring writer, Kristen tells us how she was researching a novel about young magicians when she met Jenny in the Strand bookstore's occult section.
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He kept a huge library of occult books, and Mirror of Magic was among the first English publications on magic intended for a wide audience.
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" On Wednesday, there was "Magical, Esoteric and Occult Links to Some Alternative and Energy-giving Therapies," followed by Friday's "The Exorcist: Life, Choices and Mistake.
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It usually fails to pick up polyps and thus would not prevent cancer, but it is more effective than the old fecal occult blood test.
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While O'Brien paraphrases the academic history of occult persecution, the poem points to the role paraphrase and hearsay play in the accumulative constitution of myth.
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In the late 1960s, there was the Church of Satan — founded by Hungarian writer Anton LaVey as a kind of occult take on Randian objectivism.
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Turing ran briskly through TST's recent victories: a fundraiser for Standing Rock at a local occult bookstore, and a burlesque fundraiser for Black Lives Matter.
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This use of color builds an association with the occult and its concern with accessing a deep understanding of the individual's path to their true self.
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I've asked Gamble to explain why so many women are turning to alternate forms of spirituality: the occult, the tarot, sex magic, and regular old witchcraft.
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On the other hand, you may not understand everything even if you have seen the previous films, because the tangled family/occult backstory is basically nonsense.
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It's also of no coincidence that around the time of the CDs decline, the band's drummer, Danny Carey, and his taste for the occult came forth.
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Oursler's archive of the occult can be seen as a database; it can also be a labyrinth, which, in this case, has at least two entrances.
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Science fiction, astronomy, astrology, and unorthodox or occult spiritual traditions all offer the type of thrill and wisdom that you seek in your pursuit of growth.
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Maureen Thorson wrote a detectably lovely chapbook called the Woman, the Mirror, the Eye (18783), after she was diagnosed with AZOOR, acute zonal occult outer retinopathy.
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New moons always represent beginnings, renewal, and rebirth — meaning this energy is a perfect fit for Scorpio, the sign of sex, death, transformation, and the occult.
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" The pair also deride the current occult scene as "exquisitely boring," and explain that it seemed natural to "take it out of bookstores and onto dancefloors.
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Because his culture has already exposed him to brujeria — his family members have told him about the occult — Galvin takes the news about Macy in stride.
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Looking at Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.
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He experimented with psychedelic drugs and ritual magic, developing a particular interest in figures who practiced both science and the occult, like rocketry pioneer Jack Parsons.
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Jamie had been the standard superior big brother, oscillating between picking on and protecting Murt, and still possessed an occult hold over him without even trying.
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Druggists and colormen—as preparers and venders of artists' materials were known—often shared the same inventory and the same occult reputation for possessing exotic secrets.
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Related: Painted Bodies and Canvases Elevate the Art of Magic A Bespoke Occult Glyph for Every Quandry Chilling Oil Paintings Conjure Images From the "Other Side"
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But now a new generation of witches is taking up the mantle from the infamous protestors and carrying on their blend of activism, occult, and theater.
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This may also explain the sudden rise in popularity of occult practices like aura photography, which is always noted with a "For entertainment purposes only" disclaimer.
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It's regrettable that the writer-director Babak Anvari didn't draw on the rich history of the occult in New Orleans to add texture to his film.
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Another possibility, considerably less likely but equally self-sparing, is that your missing object engineered its own vanishing, alone or in conjunction with other occult forces.
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Black Magic Her extensive home library, which has a built-in rolling ladder, is divided into literature, art, science and a special section on the occult.
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In 2017, he wrote the spell as a lark, something he thought his small circle of occult-curious friends would appreciate, but with direct political intent.
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But their decision-making can be so subjective that, in the minds of high school seniors staring down application season, it can border on the occult.
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There is an entire cinematic subculture devoted to sharks that find ingenious ways to travel on land, be it via sharknado, genetic hybridization, or occult forces.
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This episode retroactively introduces occult detective John Constantine (Matt Ryan) to the shared continuity of The CW's "Arrowverse," following the cancellation of NBC's shortlived Constantine series.
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It's a "dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft," with tonal aspirations toward Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
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From the manifesto pamphlet forward, the Bauhaus self-consciously cultivated itself as a brand, with a vaguely occult-looking logo and a raft of promotional ephemera.
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According to this occult online army, Trump is set to be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States thanks to their viral efforts.
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Related: Aura Photography Brings Occult Art Back To NYC Checking Patriarchy and Dogma Through the Art of the GIF What's the Deal with the Selfie Generation?
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"Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult," the title card read.
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In Catch-22, Joseph Heller described déjà vu as "a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence".
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In Hitler's Monsters, a forthcoming book about Nazis and the supernatural, scholar Eric Kurlander examines how Hitler's rise exploited a public fixation with the occult and paganism.
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Instead of trying to shock with lyrics about Satan and the occult, Lynda Simpson brilliantly rails against governmental corruption, war, and systemic mistreatment of the working class.
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This four-way undoubtedly paved the way for Mean Girls, building on what Heathers had offered eight years previous with Veronica Sawyer and adding the occult element.
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Located on an otherwise peaceful street, this charming shop peddles books about spirits and magick, alongside tarot cards, gothic jewellery and other knick-knacks of the occult.
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For example, I may find it attractive if someone is into films; you may find it attractive if the person is into death metal and the occult.
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"Scorpio is the sign of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and the occult, so it's a really powerful time for any work around those things," she says.
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Dishonored, Bethesda's excellent steam punk-meets-occult stealth series, is getting a new expansion on September 15th, the developer announced this evening at its E3 press conference.
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My sister said she could feel occult energies, and she said she could see two dogs – one white and one black –fighting it out in my house.
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In an age when the occult was as sure a threat as the arctic cold, Finnmark authorities suspected witchcraft as the cause and issued a sorcery decree.
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At one point, she whips out a pile of old occult books to research ways to help Sam, but they're little more than an escalating visual gag.
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Looking at František Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.
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Across the room, Tan-Jones and Priya chat about their favorite places to buy crystals and the rivalry between two competing London occult stores, Treadwells versus Watkins.
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Normally, this stuff doesn't matter; bad controls in a game where you're walking around storefronts and creepy mansions to look at shelves and occult objects is fine.
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The folks behind Catland Books, "Brooklyn's premiere occult bookshop," are going to draw on some dark magic and host a "ritual to hex Brett Kavanaugh" this Saturday.
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BROADLY: In the email you sent agreeing to this interview, you said you think all of the media attention on the Nazi occult "library" is overblown. Why?
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In addition to Jerusalem, which explores the history of Northampton, Moore is also working on an occult textbook titled The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.
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Walking lips Kylie Jenner recently posted — then deleted — a photo of a baphomet, which is a three-eyed goat typically associated with the devil and the occult.
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Some images are hauntingly grotesque — like the dead birds hanging across paths in a forest — while others seem to pulse with occult, Buñuelian sexual and religious significance.
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Though Barker was an experienced doctor who published in medical journals, he did not observe conventional boundaries, or seek to protect himself, when dealing with the occult.
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In the early 1970s, Surrealist Salvador Dalí ventured into the occult with a custom deck of tarot cards featuring himself and his wife, Gala, as mystical figures.
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That means, if you're willing to buy into the occult window dressing, a dead child's intrinsic, immortal essence is worth about the same as the new Madden.
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Game of Thrones dominates television, political pundits proudly reference Harry Potter to explain current geopolitical situations, and allusions to the occult are ubiquitous in hipster millennial culture.
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Katie said that she and dozens of supporters and fellow witches—both in person and online— have switched to other payment platforms that don't prohibit occult items.
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For Dr. Strange's occult adventures and battles in alternate dimensions, Mr. Ditko created foreboding expanses of abstract shapes and patterns, ruled by evil sorcerers and supernatural entities.
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The book compiled his extensive esoteric knowledge of the occult, magic, alchemy, and other topics, as well as his views on these subjects' historical influence on art.
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Related: Evocative Illustrations Show What Women Do When No One's Watching Unbelievable Realist Paintings of Women Underwater Look Like Photos Witches as Women Empowered by the Occult
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Police officers said that evidence in the assailant's apartment suggested that he had an interest in the occult, but that the motive for the shootings was unclear.
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Consider the room-size tile mural that comes alive with grotesque erotica and violence, presenting enough porno-occult imagery to make Anne Rice eat her heart out.
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But as an occult researcher, he knew about those who claimed responsibility for Trump's upset election victory: an online group that spreads images of a cartoon frog.
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Not even the period's craze for the occult — the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" had also come out in 1968 — helped, and Haack remained in obscurity.
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It's just that that conversation needs to be much more inclusive—something that the various strains of paganism and occult belief around the world have going for them.
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Practitioners of witchcraft and the occult have the ability to take a sense of disillusionment and use it to create an intimate bond or community of empowered individuals.
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Here, we've rounded up some of the most famous witches from popular culture to see how their behavior measures up to real-life Wiccan, Pagan, and occult practices.
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Learn about some histories of "the future," think about taking buildings down, explore the relationship between the occult and art, visit the Black Comic Book Festival, and more.
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It all sounds pretty harmless, but there's a long tradition of people believing that Ouija boards are dangerous occult gateways that can lead to demon possession or worse.
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Dee was not only a believer in the occult, he was also the queen's adviser, and he received insight by "talking to angels" through the mirror and mediums.
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Many evangelicals, in their own description, see the holiday as a celebration of the occult, often viewed in their religious worldview as connected to a very literal Satan.
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Sand captures Mandy with the help of an occult biker gang called the Black Skulls, but even drugged and confused, she laughs at his attempts to awe her.
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It's doom in the classic sense, not hippie occult witchy hocus pocus, but more cast in the blueprint of dark metal like Cirith Ungol, Candlemass or Celtic Frost.
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And what could be more perfectly symbolic of that resistance than the sun — a symbol of male power in many occult traditions— being blockaded by the feminine moon?
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Roman Catholic society decried it as a demon that demanded human sacrifice — but it would take a few more centuries before the goat became a truly occult symbol.
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In this remake, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) and director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) collaborate for a titillating thriller about the occult.
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Building on the vaguely occult dark ambiance that characterized the trio's 3000 EP last fall, "PRAY" finds the ensemble of collaborators evoking an opiatic atmosphere infected by dread.
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I came here because beautiful women called me on a Tuesday night and asked me to use my herbalist and occult knowledge to assist them in this hut.
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The purpose is to intimidate and unsettle, to unmoor their listeners from anything familiar or reassuring and set them adrift into a pulsating void of occult mechanical energy.
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Considered the seminal teen occult film of the 1990s, True, the only Black character in the ensemble, played a Catholic school girl who conjured up spells against enemies.
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Yuppie Psycho just goes one step further, with posters that spell out just how disposable you are, and, right, ok, mutants and mummies and occult symbols in blood.
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Eventually, she's "rescued" and ends up at Yale with a full ride, but for a price: She must monitor the unsavory occult activities of the school's secret societies.
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In the magazine's March 1970 issue, an article called "Evil Lurks in California" linked the counterculture's interest in the occult to Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders.
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Page would even compose an unused score for Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising using a theremin to handily combine two of his own interests: the occult and electronic music.
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Memento mori skulls and sometimes real skeletons reflected a Victorian influence, while the "as above so below" idea that gives the book its title comes from occult Hermeticism.
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The tattoo artist from Portland, Maine, was inked from head to toe in occult patterns, Iron Maiden insignia, and a neck piece that read: Not afraid to ride.
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A visiting psychiatrist tries to make the case that Grace is a hysteric, not a criminal — but Grace herself suggests that something more occult may be going on.
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Like Pierce, Lincoln lived through the deaths of her sons (one before Abe's term, one during, and one after), and her occult process of choice was also seances.
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"Being someone of Latin American descent, being able to sing about your heritage or the occult in the tongue of your parents is a visceral experience," she says.
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Unlike many other Eastern European bands, Root and the Czech black metal community in general tends to steer clear of politics, preferring instead to focus on the occult.
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It is not just their much-admired spirituality that distinguishes them — their blend of theosophy, Buddhism, astrology and the occult was not unusual among artists of the moment.
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He read about the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the 19th-century occult group that counted Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle as members.
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He says that his many iridescent, hypercolored faces, tableaus and objects—wherein the occult and advertising's subliminal messaging collide—can be traced back to his elementary school days.
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Read: The writing in Ariana Reines's new poetry collection, "A Sand Book," is raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities, our reviewer writes.
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These elite clubs exist in real life, minus the occult nicknames, and their self-mythologizing exoticism is profoundly satisfying to their members and profoundly irritating to everyone else.
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Rather than an occult secret, alchemy is revealed in The Art of Alchemy at the Getty Center to be a prominent force in everything from medicine to color.
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Dabble in the occult: Emphasis on "dabble"—If you're going to dutifully perform an actual magic ritual, you need to be sober, practiced, and ready with the sage.
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Characters investigate the disappearance of lost relatives by searching opium dens and dealing with unfriendly Scotland Yard investigators, but they also experience supernatural visions and use occult tomes.
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Péladan was a writer whose novel, Le Vice Suprême, which advocated the benefits of the occult religions of the Ancient Near East, was the publishing phenomenon of 1884.
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One thing I like about this renewed interest in witchcraft and the occult is that we're coming to recognize more broadly that women aren't always inherently good or nice.
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There were indications that the man had taken an interest in occult sciences, Lentjes Meili said, adding it was not clear at this stage whether he was mentally ill.
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The show features ten new works alongside pieces from his private collections, together exploring occult imagery, traditional cholo iconography, and religious symbols via paintings, sculptures, and limited-edition prints.
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Bland's use of snakes, phallic-like geometric forms, and triangles, some of which are bisected, conveys an interest in occult and mystical imagery without ever becoming blatant about it.
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But I feel like with this, it's not really personal it's all political, or rooted in the occult or weird, wacky drug trips so what do you grasp on?
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By far the most notorious criminal trial that stemmed from the belief that ritualistic occult child abuse was a pervasive reality were the trials of the West Memphis Three.
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All this LARPer had to do was add in a little bit of truth, a dash of the occult, a few villains, and a hero—and we have QAnon.
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Conspiracist theorists have hooked onto its alleged occult origins, but really, the piece about "aphrodisiac recipes" is as much influenced by, say, Alastair Crowley as it is Bruce Nauman.
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Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) is into some bloody, murderous, way-far-out-occult stuff — and for her crimes against nature she is mummified and sealed into one creepy-ass casket.
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I do not think the time-machine thing happened, but some of the Nazi leadership was into the occult, a factoid that weirdly delights many current lovers of witchcraft.
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A couple of weeks ago, in fact, a few websites gleefully reported the discovery of a "rare library of books on witches and the occult" in a Czech library.
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The guy who I think wrote probably the best scholarly biography of Himmler [Peter Longerich] devoted a whole chapter in the biography to trying to understand Himmler's occult interests.
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Plenty of modern people know what they mean from their presence in occult practices (like casting runes to predict the future) and on medieval stones that still stand today.
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These tales of Satanic child abuse and sacrifices in secret tunnels marked by occult symbols, while pegged clearly to that era's culture and fears, harkened back to older panics.
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We spoke to Tony Locke, a writer and current-day Druid, to unpack the murky past of apple-bobbing and to better understand the occult significance of the apple.
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There is a Euron-focused chapter of the forthcoming book, Winds of Winter, that George R.R. Martin has read at various fan conventions and that features many occult themes.
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The artist's well-earned early success is due to his singularly spooky vision, and it's evident that a good deal of Connelly' inspiration is somehow rooted in the occult.
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But without at least a drive-by of this rather occult framework, one can't even begin to understand the contours, tone, and current state of the debate Wolfe covers.
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Pressingly, some of these Trump supporters had started to dabble in the occult on their own, and claimed that doing so had helped the current president rise to power.
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There is a rich tradition in China, going back to the advent of written narrative and predating fiction, called zhiguai: accounts of the inexplicable and occult, often featuring ghosts.
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Mindless Sinner (lyrical themes "Occult, Women, Love, Metal"), Swedish also-rans from the early 80s, proved from their electrifying first US performance that they sincerely merited a second look.
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Or "sex magick," to be precise, an occult art of potions and spells and strip teases practiced by other women (and maybe a few men) who share Elaine's beliefs.
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" She suggested he had fallen through the cracks of occult history, but added: "I don't want to pass judgment, but this was a time people were interested in spiritualism.
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The twins, who have the occult powers of the ever-vague DOOMs like the rest of the characters I have mentioned, share all of their experiences with one another.
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She read an occult book on yoga — Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism — by William Walker Atkinson, a white American author writing under the pseudonym Yogi Ramacharaka.
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For some, the rise of "witch culture" — a blending of political resistance and occult spirituality — has been an empowering development (as well as a means of hexing President Trump).
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The feeling that the books thus promoted the occult proved to be the basis for constant challenges to the series' presence in school libraries and bookstores by concerned conservative parents.
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And it makes its way into legitimate critiques of financial elites, which can slip into the world's oldest conspiracy theory of malign Jewish influence exerted through money and occult powers.
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That show drove its audience wild with artful links to the occult, hinting at something far darker, more sinister, and more compelling than anything that came to pass on-screen.
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The bestselling brand draws a lot of its aesthetic from witchcraft and the occult, so it isn't hard to see where Kat Von D and the TV show's paths cross.
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Both Miss Cleo and Auntie Poulet are said to be trained in Voodoo, have a strong link to the occult, are of Afro Caribbean origin, and reside in South Florida.
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We've rounded up seven of our favorite magical podcasts to bring your ears the sounds of the occult, including urban and high fantasies, a touch of the Weird, and more.
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There's an "expert in the occult" who keeps trying to get people to commit acts of evil (Michael Emerson) and who is also pursuing a romantic relationship with Kristen's mom.
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The highest-ranked community making that list for the first time is the 11th-place "witchblr" — a growing group of people who blog mostly about witchcraft and adjacent occult fascinations.
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I think that one thing I'm taking away from this is how metal bands explore themes in their music like that kind of fantasy, mythology, and occult kind of stuff.
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But the genre's deep, dark electro-wave sound, and the occult imagery in its lyrics, fashion, and music videos have continued to draw fans in well past the genre's prime.
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As such, the show is not only astounding, not only informative, not only amusing; but it also returns art aesthetics to an intellectual intermediate zone of the anomalous and occult.
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The internet has had a field day poking around the pop stars' videos and stage visuals looking for occult symbolism and the famous "eye-in-the-triangle," spawning memes aplenty.
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In 1980, a since-discredited memoir called Michelle Remembers became a scandalous bestseller based on its purported detailing of a childhood spent undergoing a wealth of shocking occult sexual abuse.
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What began as a personal interest evolved into a serious occult practice with art that continues to reflect Madara's experimentation with ways to combine the digital world with the supernatural.
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We broke up shortly after these revelations as it occurred to me that Brandon's interest in the occult had a more to do with psychiatric compulsion than a spiritual one.
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Related: [Premiere] CGI Music Video Is 'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater' Meets the Occult Watch 29 Days of Weirdo CGI in 71 Seconds Time Loops Through Trippy Portals in 360° Video
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Related: Exclusive: Inside Rashaad Newsome's Miami Art Parade The Trippy Art (and Trippier Life) of Occult Artist Marjorie Cameron The Live Virtual Reality Game Show Is Not Your Parents' TV
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A good, interesting set of clues, all with a consistent level of difficulty for a given day of the week doesn't just appear as if written by some occult hand.
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By 1994, he'd returned to the ways of the kayfabe occult as the mastermind behind the Dungeon of Doom, one of the most inexplicably prominent bad angles of the 1990s.
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Nor is the fact that unlike earlier occult panics, which depended on the (dubious) testimonies of "actual" child victims as anchors, these theories just make claims without identifying clear victims.
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His musical output has now delved into topics of occult spirituality, and let there be no doubt, he believes in magic's pervasive and almost banal existence in our daily lives.
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Michelle Goldberg On a Wednesday evening last week, I sat in on a class called "Witchcraft 101: Curses, Hexes and Jinxes," at Catland, a fashionable occult boutique in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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A former Khomeini follower said in his public confession in 1987 that he had resorted to black magic and the occult to spread cancerous cells among clerical leaders he opposed.
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Leigh Bardugo, the author of best-selling books like "Shadow and Bone" and "Six of Crows," has written "Ninth House," which features occult versions of the secret societies at Yale.
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Martin is an abstraction, the embodiment of an occult principle of cosmic vengeance, and Mr. Keoghan makes him appropriately menacing and also pitiable, since he's also a grieving, needy child.
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So while the books on view were never "lost," Dee's connection, and especially the inclusion of his occult objects, is something being emphasized in this exhibition for the first time.
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The party room will be filled with artwork by Marnie Weber, Mario Ybarra Jr., DogKnitSweater, Ofelia Marquez, and others, while the theater will host performances celebrating the bizarre and occult.
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After WikiLeaks released email correspondence from Clinton's campaign chief John Podesta, an exchange between Podesta and Abramović led to a viral rumor that the two were colluding in dark occult rites.
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At different points in her life, you could call her an illustrator, a children's book author, a storyteller, a set designer, and an active member of the 20th-century occult movement.
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"You just got a big heart," Fred promises his battered child before finding a bizarre occult object — the "Kill the Red Paladin" Gryphons & Gargoyles card from months ago — in their kitchen.
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Priests from a Catholic parish in Koszalin, Poland set fire to books — including those of the beloved Harry Potter series — because they believe that objects associated with the occult are evil.
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Then, the writer Tara Isabella Burton joins Ross and Michelle for a Halloween-inspired discussion of astrology, witchcraft, the decline of religious observance and American millennials' growing interest in the occult.
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The Untitled Sabrina Project imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult, and, of course, witchcraft.
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At Yale, the ghosts are called Grays, and they're everywhere — especially around the secret societies where the rich and powerful perform dark occult rituals to become even richer and more powerful.
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The Telegraph reports that the Catholic Church in Italy and the US has seen a rise in people practicing Satanism and the occult—and there aren't enough exorcists to handle it.
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While viewers might question whether a Riverdale curveball can be blamed on the occult (see: the Gargoyle King), regular old boring humans are almost always the cause of Riverdale's bloodiest tragedies.
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The center's most arresting artwork is a one-ton, 7-foot (2.13-m) bronze statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed winged deity that has been associated with Satanism and the occult.
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Even though the religious right may have been right that occult-leaning pop culture is capable of ushering in a new generation of witches, their fear mongering is (of course) misguided.
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Its dark occult fantasies helped to spark the rash of wildly dramatic, highly unfounded accusations of satanic ritual abuse that were attached to a string of daycare centers throughout the 1980s.
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The occult corners of Reddit are full of stories of black magick gone wrong or, even worse, tales of malevolent forces attaching themselves to people as a result of black magick.
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It sounds like the script of an old occult movie, and the cinematic shots that director Tine Guns brought to the table would be really serene if they weren't so bleak.
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Madara's interest in arts and the occult first manifested about 20 years ago, and for the last decade, he's been working on his distinct hybrid of arcana-infused art and technology.
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Related Illuminati Art: Inside the Aesthetics of a Modern Conspiracy Artists Address the Women at the Heart of JFK's Assassination The Trippy Art (and Trippier Life) of Occult Artist Marjorie Cameron
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"In occult and metaphysical fields, many people like to call themselves experts without any credentials or qualifications, so unfortunately it can be difficult to sort out what is bullshit," she said.
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The next decades brought high-profile court cases culminating in the 1960s, when "claimed or pretended use of occult powers" to "influence or affect evil spirits or curses" was outlawed outright.
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He formed an important part of our individual and collective experiences as Latinx people with deep spiritual foundations rooted in Catholicism, Christianity, and the fascination with or fear of the occult.
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No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction; notwithstanding that [Gottfried] Leibnitz formerly accused [Isaac] Newton of introducing 'occult qualities & miracles into philosophy.
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If occult doom as a genre is going to progress, or evolve, it's going to need to start embracing this kind of forward-thinking experimentation, and Messa are leading the way.
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By 1952, Valiente had amassed two husbands (the first died during the war when his ship was torpedoed) and a great deal of occult knowledge through researching at her local libraries.
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He's got a lot to holler about in Panos Cosmatos's Mandy, a psychedelic occult horror vengeance film involving apocalyptic bikers, niche religious zealots, a giant crossbow, and a homemade battle ax.
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The nomadic Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult rotates its supposedly cursed and haunted curios on its live feed, where viewers around the world can monitor them for unusual activity.
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Aquatic Occult was mastered by Brad Boatright and produced by T. Roy's longtime friend, Mike Dean, (who most of us know better as the bassist and vocalist for Corrosion of Conformity).
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But I liked that the Palais de Tokyo's curator-at-large of the urban art Lasco Project, Hugo Vitrani, used this opportunity to go deep, generally taking a dark occult route.
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Sure, in the middle of the series, he kind of falls off the rails and becomes a dark lord, but what ostracized gremlin teenager rebelling by experimenting with the occult hasn't?
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Being occult is a way to announce that you stand on the fringe of society, that you stand against the patriarchy, against the heteronormative culture and against the structures of oppression.
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Related: Tender Portraits of a Photographer's Muse Challenge Ideas of Gender Identity See All the Seasons of Norway in Panoramic 8K Splendor [NSFW] Nude Occult Rituals Staged Against Norway's Stark Landscape
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The exploration into the occult properties of writing is one of the most fascinating threads of enquiry in the exhibition which investigates how writing functioned as a kind of dark magic.
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They do so through a series of sideshow acts and wacky scenarios — an occult fitness studio, a cyborg bullfight — drawing on, among other things, Holzinger's fascination with Coney Island's colorful past.
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His understanding of the allure for a digital generation of the mystical, the symbolic, the analog and even the occult turned Gucci into the single biggest-selling fashion label in Italy.
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It's almost occult, an insane gesticulator of objects and symbols, a metaphor or an homage to the clandestine, a parody of the ability to beat the system and not pay taxes.
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In contrast to the more solemn approaches of the other films, "The Mesh and the Circles" is a heady mixture, a fevered elixir of anthropological study, quotidian handiwork, and the occult.
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These are rare artifacts of an occult culture, each a labor of love for their ritual purpose, not originally intended as art, but as a tool of connection through shared rites.
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Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly: The Defenders is blessed by a dynamite actress and geek pop royalty: Sigourney Weaver plays Alexandra, death-defying leader of an occult underworld organization known as The Hand.
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Related: We're Having a Very NSFW Art Show at the Museum of Sex [NSFW] Gritty, Glittery Nudes Relish the Grotesque Glamour of the Female Form Witches as Women Empowered by the Occult
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When a villainous landowner steps in and threatens everything, though, he sets off a series of events which culminate in a reckoning, revealing a history of violence, oppression, survival, and the occult.
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It's especially difficult because the worst-case scenario is treated by the very few people who understand it as a kind of forbidden occult knowledge to which ordinary people cannot survive exposure.
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For example, a pro-Pizzagate YouTube video published the same day Roberta's workers began receiving threats claims the restaurant's Instagram account provides clues into the pizzeria's interests in the Satanic and occult.
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Filmed in lush locations around Colombia, Siempre Bruja reframes Hollywood's often limited takes on the occult in which the heroines are white, magic is alienating, and witchcraft clashes with other faith traditions.
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Ultimately, they paved the way for a more recent obsession with occult-ridden images—everything from representations of ghosts and auras to the "unnatural" world of spiritual symbolism and the mystical unknown.
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult, and — of course — witchcraft.
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Many of the first and second wave death metal bands either pushed more gore based imagery – Repulsion, Autopsy, Death or anti-religious/occult type art from bands like Morbid Angel and Deicide.
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Through a merging of fashion and art, Hood explores the iconography of the occult and its relationship to pop culture, as well as ideas surrounding voyeurism, female empowerment, and the male gaze.
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Nine of Stars: A Wildlands Novel, Laura Bickle Petra Dee is the daughter of an alchemist who has come up against occult horrors over the course of Laura Bickle's Dark Alchemy series.
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There's a seance room, an occult room, a main museum area filled with shelves of haunted objects, and a tea room/gift shop that sells instant coffee and dreamcatchers and unicorn knickknacks.
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Via This Is Colossal Related: [NSFW] Nude Occult Rituals Staged Against Norway's Stark Landscape GIF Collage Artist Juxtaposes Images of Movement & World Culture This Artist Will Color-Blast Your City with Rainbows
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Related: 'Mood Ring' Group Show Paints an Honest Portrait of Mental Illness [NSFW] Nude Occult Rituals Staged Against Norway's Stark Landscape A Narcoleptic Artist Draws His Apocalyptic Sleep Paralysis Visions in Ink
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Another strike: As the first live-action attempt at Doctor Strange proved back in 1978, translating an occult superhero from comic book to screen can result in everyone looking a little goofy.
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"They're Watching," a mildly amusing horror movie released on Friday, is about a reality TV crew that goes to Moldova to film an expatriate's fixer-upper story and stumbles into the occult.
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Previous Anaal Nathrakh songs have dealt with the perils of corrupt politicians and other hardships that affect real people, as opposed to the occult fantasies that many of their peers engage with.
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Batle's fascination with human remains isn't rooted in the occult or Halloween festiveness, but his BA in biology at UC Santa Barbara, and he honed his inventive approach to materials at CalArts.
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And this ultimate belief system is part of an occult system, because a lot of the future they want to build incorporates these ideas of worshipping pagan deities and ceremonial ritual magic.
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Related: Artist Uses 150-Year-Old Photography Technique to Create These Chilling Images Death and the Daguerreotype: The Strange and Unsettling World of Victorian Photography Witches as Women Empowered by the Occult
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Below, we've gathered five unique tarot decks that you can give to loved ones anxious about the future, intrigued by the occult, interested in historical mysticism, or who simply admire beautiful objects.
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" Its "enigmatic character qualifies it both for occult significance and as a sign of the constant threat of an insignificant social world threatened at all moments with the omnipresence of guaranteed oblivion.
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But those kinds of records were useless for figuring out whether a particular voter was, say, a neurotic introvert, a religious extrovert, a fair-minded liberal or a fan of the occult.
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It's also arguably part of a larger recurring wave of concern over any pop culture that's been perceived as morally deviant, from rock 'n' roll to the occult, depending on the era.
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The moral panic over video games is part of a larger recurring wave of hysteria aimed at what's seen as subversive culture, from rock 'n' roll to the occult, that spans decades.
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The exhibition is in conjunction with the Occult Humanities Conference (February 803–7) at New York University and features over 60 modern and contemporary artists who have instilled their work with magic.
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As idiosyncratic as Wilkinson was, the Friend emerged from a long tradition of Christian experiments in mysticism, communal living and occult theories about controlling sexual energy to connect with a bigendered God.
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Russell's contrast knobs don't twitch the way that Angela Carter's and Donald Barthelme's did, to name two writers who reimagined fairy tales and whose work could touch on the occult and surreal.
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This makes it nearly impossible for occult book publishers to let authors recommend using weed as a method to achieve trance states and soul flight, even if that is their preferred method.
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The idea of an artistic destination shrouded by a royal and manufacturing city was in accord with one of Turin's other notable features: its weird association with magic, madness and the occult.
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My questioner, the small museum's eccentric caretaker, Fulvio Ferrari — wearing an extraordinary dark vest patterned with giraffe motifs — had been showing me around the apartment, demonstrating its myriad varieties of occult significance.
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As Susie learns to dance the lead in Blanc's signature piece, there's whispers of terrorism, flashbacks to her religious upbringing and, behind closed doors, exposition of the occult practices underpinning the company.
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Occult symbols left at some of the crime scenes delight Bryant, who is enchanted by all things weird and has all manner of strange friends and associates he consults on such matters.
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Downhearted and scared, Tairo takes to the road in search of Mr. Robin while Wendy, the circus's contortionist, seeks a variety of mild occult solutions to Tairo's seeming streak of bad luck.
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Remember that old episode of Sabrina where Sabrina's two aunts threw her a surprise birthday by holding some kind of terrifying séance and summoning Baphomet to join them for an occult ritual?
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I've only encountered a handful of other artists capable of evoking that kind of visceral reaction, and generally, those who do tend to ascribe to intense personal philosophies (occult, Satanic, or otherwise).
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" Before the Occult LA film series took over the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, a venue named Cinemateque 16 presented a program called "Black Magick Sex & Witchcraft in the Underground Cinema.
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Women found freedom through Victorian spiritualism, which included practicing séances with the dead; mesmerism, the belief that "animal magnetism" was used to move energy through bodies; and a general interest in the occult.
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Both Waite and Smith (along with a cast of curious characters, from Aleister Crowley to Bram Stoker) were members of the Order of the Golden Dawn, which influenced contemporary interpretations of the occult.
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Witchfinder, written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, tells the story of Sir Edward Grey, a 19th century occult investigator currently on the trail of a nasty vampire trying to destroy 1882 London.
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You love studying the occult, healing, poetry, and history—you want to know about anything that teaches you not just about yourself, but about the rest of the world and its mystical magic.
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In Killjoy's followup novella, Danielle is part of a demon-hunting crew that discovers a secret occult library in a small town where the residents claim to have come back from the dead.
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Gorbut is the brains behind Cosmobandits, a space opera/Thelma and Louise combination; Vicious Circle, an occult horror comic; and Maha, a comic about a dysfunctional relationship in which a dinosaur suddenly appears.
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A place that has remained secret for the best part of 20 years, only revealing itself to those with a taste for the occult and arcane (and a confirmation email in their inbox).
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Late last month, a lusty Redditor using the handle Tacodirtshield1 posed a simple question to Reddit's r/occult community: What's the best way to conjure a hot, sexy demon to have sex with?
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All of these events feel lifted straight from this darker era of American culture, when fear of demons and strangers practicing dark occult things seemed to lurk in the heart of every neighborhood.
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Seeing as I'm neither a priest or the main character in an occult thriller series like True Detective, the thought of perusing a dark church at night isn't really among my top priorities.
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Coffee Reading, available on Society6, $16.99Perfect for the avid coffee drinker or casual fan of the occult, this ceramic mug made by the independent artists of Society6 is a fun — and useful — gift.
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The film's themes, ephemeral and inexact, broadly align with each holiday's concerns: death (the terrorism trial, vaguely occult chanting), sex (observers circling a naked woman), and labor (dancers, models, stage setters at work).
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I don't like dressing up all that much anymore, or being goofy in general—crucial components to a holiday built upon an occult tradition and soundtracked by "The Monster Mash" and werewolf noises.
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Tarot reader and Witchbody author Sabrina Scott has been doing tarot for 20 years, and was most recently commissioned to write the spreads for the Ignota Diary, an occult planner from Ignota Books.
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Make time for reflection or meditation on Sunday, when optimistic Jupiter harmonizes with transcendental Neptune to connect across the most occult sectors of your chart and create an extremely spiritual day for you.
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But as a teenager — bored, lonely, with a vague taste for the occult — I read tarot cards and messed around with Ouija boards, mortified when the planchette would glide toward some crush's name.
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Conjurers of all kinds would hang out near Astor Place at Weiser Antiquarian, the oldest occult bookstore in America, and they shopped for ingredients for spells at Alberto Rendon's botanica on 116th Street.
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This came just weeks after she'd had to apologize for a 2012 tweet in which she said that Israel had "hypnotized" the world, phrasing that also recalled old canards about occult Jewish power.
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He popularized the capital-T version of Traditionalism as an occult phenomenon: an attempt to recapture what he believed to be a primordial spiritual truth that all world religions had somehow fallen away from.
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Although not all of these high-profile crimes were directly related to occult practices, they enflamed a very specific fear of devil-worship in the United States, which was then fed by popular culture.
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Born to American parents in Stuttgart, Germany, Pelton (1881-1961) could be filed under visionaries: Her abstract paintings, many created in the California desert, tried to fuse color, sound and vision with occult shadings.
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And Kusama takes setups that have been explored in countless occult films before, but explores them through to their logical, human conclusion, asking how a mother would actually react when faced with such horrors.
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Jackson's biographer, Ruth Franklin, says the famous horror writer boasted "a vast library of historical volumes related to witchcraft and to the occult," and she was known to read Tarot cards for her friends.
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Last month, I bought a bushel of sage for $10 at a semi-sketchy shop in the West Village, which I found ranked on a list of the best occult shops in New York.
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At his trial, prosecutors insisted that the long-haired teen, who wore black clothing, loved heavy metal music and was fascinated with the occult, murdered three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark.
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Ultimately, Na's superb direction, sleek cinematography, and sense of visuals only make the occult aspects of this film feel more raw — but they also leave us with no firm grasp on what to believe.
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"Spot hidden," for example, reveals new clues that wouldn't otherwise be there, "medicine" allows Pierce to make more informed judgments about crime scenes, and the "occult" stat increases his grasp of the Lovecraftian mythos.
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Director Michele Soavi finds the sweet spot between Mario Bava's occult curiosity and Lamberto Bava's gory excess for this film set in a gothic cathedral that was built over the mass grave of Satanists.
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Once the priests have left the building, Mihaela—who doesn't exactly care if the priests don't approve of her witchcraft—begins her occult ceremony asking the spirits to grant Beatrice happiness, power, and love.
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So, after making his way through an exhaustive list of new-age books, Mr. Person started holding "occult consulting" sessions with friends and friends of friends, eventually expanding to dozens and dozens of clients.
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By then, the three activists were in police custody, including Lena Greenberg, 23, a teacher, and Sarah Lyons, 26, a writer and witch who reads Tarot cards at Catland, an occult bookstore in Brooklyn.
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For more than 20 years since the first book was published, the boy wizard who faces off against the evil dark wizard Lord Voldemort has faced criticism that it gloried witchcraft and the occult.
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After working at Time magazine and Science Digest, Mr. Cohen began writing books — nearly all for children and teenagers — about ghosts, U.F.O.s, the occult, ESP, vampires, werewolves, conspiracies, cloning, weather and the human genome.
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Strange isn't nearly as known as Marvel favorites like Iron Man, Captain America, and Hulk, but strong casting and an open embrace of the comic inspiration's occult underpinnings made his first movie a winner.
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Berlin's Necros Christos—while obvious poster children for the concept of "occult death metal" as a whole—always stood a head and shoulders above the chattering hordes of pretenders to the throne of skulls.
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One of my fondest memories as a father and a film critic is of an impromptu post-screening seminar with two 11-year-olds about occult meanings and hidden clues in the director's cut.
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Along with his books, that focus on math, philosophy, and history, as well as more mystical texts on astrology, cryptography, and alchemy, Dee's objects represent his fervent search for knowledge both scientific and occult.
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