The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

Walter Sickert, an English artist, was initially a follower of Whistler, and later an important disciple of Degas ; he did not exhibit with the Impressionists.

Orage met P. D. Ouspensky, a follower of Gurdjieff, in 1914 and began correspondence with Harry Houdini ; he became less interested in literature and art with an increased focus on mysticism and other spiritual topics ; the magazine was sold in 1921.

The Council then set aside Antipope John XXIII ( 1410 – 15 ), the successor of Alexander V. After the former follower of Benedict XIII appeared, the council declared him deposed ; and the Great Schism was ended.

Lina was already a Nazi Party follower ; she had attended her first rally in 1929.

A Sikh ( or ;, ) is a follower of Sikhism, a religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia or a member of the Sikh people.

William granted some lands to his continental followers from the holding or holdings of one or more specific Englishmen ; at other times, William granted a compact grouping of lands previously held by many different Englishmen to one Norman follower, often to allow for the consolidation of lands around a strategically placed castle.

It was found at Laverstock, Wiltshire, in 1780 ; it is believed to have been a gift from Æthelwulf to a loyal follower.

Shortly before the Báb's execution, a follower of the Báb, Abd al-Karim, brought to the Báb's attention the necessity to appoint a successor ; thus the Báb wrote a certain number of tablets which he gave to Abd al-Karim to deliver to Subh-i-Azal and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique ; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical technique later known as total serialism.

The most notable victim, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who had opposed Caesar and excoriated Antony in his Philippics, came as no surprise ; nor did the proscription of Marcus Favonius, a follower of Cato and a constant opponent of both triumvirates ; but the proscription of Caesar's legate Quintus Tullius Cicero ( Marcus Tullius Cicero's younger brother ) seems to be motivated by pure spite.

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.

In cases where driver and follower are in close proximity gears also have an advantage over other drives in the reduced number of parts required ; the downside is that gears are more expensive to manufacture and their lubrication requirements may impose a higher operating cost.

" Now this professor had been a revolutionary during the revolution, a follower of Napoleon during the Empire and a royalist during the restauration ; Villemain answered quickly to him: " I found one too: << Quantae infidelitates!

Monturiol also became an enthusiastic follower of the utopian thinker and socialist Étienne Cabet ; he popularised Cabet's ideas through La Fraternidad and produced a Spanish translation of his novel Voyage en Icarie.

The syllable-po or-pa is appended to a noun in Tibetan to designate a person who is from that place or performs that action ; " Bonpo " thus means a follower of the Bon tradition, " Nyingmapa " a follower of the Nyingma tradition, and so on.

* Slang " Pretzelphyte " meaning a follower loyal to soft pretzels ; or a soft pretzel aficionado.

* Gaius Claudius, a follower of Marcus Junius Brutus, who ordered him to put Gaius Antonius to death ; afterwards he was sent to Rhodes in command of a squadron, and after his patron's death, he joined Cassius Parmensis.

Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha ( or Johann Schischka ; ) ( c. 1360 – 1424 ), Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus, was born at small village Trocnov ( now a part of Borovany ) in Bohemia, into a gentried family.

Hewitt joined the Labour Party in the 1970s, and was initially a follower of Tony Benn ; she publicly condemned those left-wing MPs who abstained in the deputy leadership election of 1981, giving Denis Healey a narrow victory.

In a basic step, the running steps are done in open position ( follower on the right side of the leader ) and the turning steps are done in closed position ; but many variations exists to play with those positions ( including parting during the running steps to slip around a slower couple, or the leader genuflecting during the turning step and letting the follower circle around ).

The 2002 edition of The World Book Dictionary does not note a negative connotation, defining it simply as: " a follower of Sun Myung Moon "; nor does the 1999 edition of the Webster's II New College Dictionary, which defines it as " a member of the Unification Church established and headed by Sun Myung Moon.

Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin and secret follower of Jesus, who had not consented to his condemnation, goes to Pilate to request the body of Jesus ().

Another secret follower of Jesus and member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus brought about a hundred pound weight mixture of spices and helped wrap the body of Christ ().

Garnier was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford in 1996 and is a keen follower of cricket, being a member of Leicestershire CCC.

Other notable minor factions of the Latter Day Saint movement include: the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ), which owns the Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri ; the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutlerite ), founded by a member of Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty ; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ), founded by James J. Strang in 1844 ; the Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ), founded by a follower of Sidney Rigdon in the early 1860's ( and now the third-largest Latter Day Saint denomination ); the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, founded in the 1940's by a man who claimed to be receiving revelations from John the Baptist ; and the Restoration Branches, which broke with the Community of Christ in 1984 when that church began ordaining women.

Wright served as Comptroller of the State of New York from 1829 to 1833, in which post he became a prominent follower of Martin Van Buren and a member of the Albany Regency that ran the state for the Democratic Party in this period.

A passionate follower of cricket, Neil is a member of Marylebone Cricket Club.

* Slade-a follower of Seth and crew member of the Surprise.

He is mostly a follower to Jojo and is also a key member of their band.

Although he is a member of the clergy in Salem, he appears to be a follower of the devil.

Deniehy was a follower of the radical leader John Dunmore Lang ( despite Lang's violent dislike of the Irish and of Roman Catholicism ), and a member of Lang's organisation, the Australian League.

He is a follower of the Pashtun spiritual leader Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, and a member of Gailani's National Islamic Front party.

Philippe de Chérisey was a follower of the surrealist movement and a member of the College of Pataphysics, with a desire to subvert the norms of culture, or in other words, create an alternate reality that became more real than reality itself.

Some proponents claim that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a follower of this school of thought ; however, Thomas is more widely considered a member of the strict constructionist school.

She was once a small female ape, transformed by Grodd, whereupon she becomes Grodd's devoted follower and has become a returning member of his Secret Society ( based on the Legion of Doom ). In " Secret Society ," Giganta recruits The Shade into Grodd's Secret Society. The Shade, when revealed Gigantas background as a gorilla, glances at her eating a banana and simply shrugs and smiles at her, showing that he doesn't mind overall.

Other poets from this period include: Paul Valéry, Max Jacob ( a key member of the group around Apollinaire ), Pierre Jean Jouve ( a follower of Romain Rolland's " Unanism "), Valery Larbaud ( a translator of Whitman and friend to Joyce ), Victor Segalen ( friend to Huysmans and Claudel ), Léon-Paul Fargue ( who studied with Stéphane Mallarmé and was close to Valéry and Larbaud ).

Emil Pauker's newspapers were by then also being targeted by the new fascist movement known as the Iron Guard, led by former LANC member Codreanu: in 1930, one of its editors was shot by a follower of Codreanu, but escaped with his life.

Corps Hannovera is also a founding member and stringent follower of the " blaues Prinzip " or blue principle ( along with fellow cartel Corps Teutonia Marburg and Lusatia Leipzig ).

He took a leading part in the formation of the party of the Center in 1870 – 1871, but he did not become a member of it, for he feared that his reputation as a follower of the king of Hanover would injure the party ; that is, until the leaders formally requested that he join them.

Other poets from this period include: Paul Valéry, Max Jacob ( a key member of the group around Apollinaire ), Pierre Jean Jouve ( a follower of Romain Rolland's " Unanism "), Valery Larbaud ( a translator of Whitman and friend to Joyce ), Victor Segalen ( friend to Huysmans and Claudel ), Léon-Paul Fargue ( who studied with Stéphane Mallarmé and was close to Valéry and Larbaud ).