Supernatural
- Apparitional experience, an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience
- Vision (spirituality), inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being
- Marian apparition, in which the Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared
- Ghost, the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person
- Doppelgänger, the ghostly double of a living person
- Bilocation, the ability/instances in which an individual or object appears to be located in two distinct places at the same instant in time
- Apparition (Harry Potter), a form of teleportation used in the Harry Potter novels
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Famous quotes containing the word supernatural:
“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiar gift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)