Western European, including English, Scandinavian and Celtic, traditions claimed that fairy rings are the result of elves or fairies dancing.

Thus the elves were both the cause and the result of a time paradox, because the legends the High Ones had seen were about their own time-shifted descendants.

As a result of the popularity of Drow ( Dark elves ), in both the game and the supporting novels, it continues to be one of the best known layers by both players and authors, and was featured as the setting of the grand conclusion of a series of adventure modules in the early years of the game ( see below ).

The Essenes chose not to possess slaves, but served each other and, as a result of communal ownership, did not engage in trading.

Thus, although Buddhas possess no limitation from their side on their ability to help others, sentient beings continue to experience suffering as a result of the limitations of their own former negative actions.

Hempel himself accepted the paradoxical conclusion, arguing that the reason the result appears paradoxical is because we possess prior information without which the observation of a non-black non-raven would indeed provide evidence that all ravens are black.

According to essentialism, a member of a specific group may possess other characteristics that are neither needed to establish its membership nor preclude its membership, but that essences do not simply reflect ways of grouping objects ; they also result in properties of the object, as the object can be subjugated to smaller contexts.

As a result, the vast majority of species in the Milky Way is humanoid, and possess a secret code imbedded in their DNA.

Without a valid license from the Hong Kong Police Force, it is a crime to possess and can result in a fine of $ 100, 000 and to imprisonment for 14 years.

As a result, the city possess several large research institutions such as the Institute of Biology and Agriculture, the Pacific Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry, the Institute of Marine Biology, the Pacific Institute of Geography, the Pacific Oceanological Institute, as well as several Institutes affiliated with the Far Eastern Division of the Russian Academy of Science.

The plot is foiled by a middle-aged tailor from the Twentieth Century, who possess powerful psychic abilities as a result of experiments performed upon him when he arrived in the future.

In some monarchies, those of the Middle East for example, in which primogeniture is not the decisive factor in dynastic succession, a person may not possess the title or status of crown prince by right of birth, but may obtain ( and lose ) it as a result of an official designation made on some other legal or traditional basis, e. g., former Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.

It has been noted that a large number of bites attributed to the brown recluse spider may actually be the result of yellow sac spider bites, which possess a cytotoxic venom known to contain several proteolytic enzymes including alkaline phosphatase, deoxyribonuclease, esterase, hyaluronidase, lipase, and ribonuclease.

Psychologist Karen Horney, M. D., in her article " The Problem of the Monogamous Ideal ," indicates that the overestimation of love leads to disillusionment ; the desire to possess the partner results in the partner wanting to escape ; and the taboos against sex result in non-fulfillment.

However, other studies show that women do not possess greater empathic abilities than men, and perceived gender differences are the result of motivational differences.

Species that possess an elevated risk of extinction are given the highest priority and as a result of conserving their habitat, other species in that community are protected thus serving as an element of gap analysis.

In positive psychology, apathy is described as a result of the individual feeling they do not possess the level of skill required to confront a challenge ( i. e. " Flow ").

As a result, his depravity is accelerated and magnified from the minor character foibles that are congenital to him to the egregious evils that possess him by the end of the novel.

As a result, because of demand from course customers who possess this enhanced equipment, and also out of an expressed concern for safety, golf course architects have had to lengthen and widen golf courses.

In mathematics, more specifically in the area of modern algebra known as field theory, the primitive element theorem or Artin's theorem on primitive elements is a result characterizing the finite degree field extensions that possess a primitive element.

Though not yet known to Cyborg or Red Tornado, his insanity is revealed to be the result of Alan Scott's Starheart power, which is able to possess metahumans with magical or elemental abilities.

Both Euarchontoglires and Diprotodont Marsupials are documented to possess a vermiform appendix, although this evolved as a result of convergence.

The Shapers and the world of Geneforge were the result of Vogel imagining how would a being possess such power and how would they use it.

The central concept of the series is the existence of arrogant beings who possess awesome powers ( as a result of technology ) and use these powers to play the role of gods.

As a result of this strategy, it is possible to create a number of default form layouts which possess complete database functionality yet contain no programmer-written code at all.

The most common scenarios are: persons caught above the tree line in bad weather with insufficient clothing and / or food then suffer from hypothermia ; persons attempt a climb that requires knowledge or equipment they do not possess and often become stuck on a ledge or cliff, unable to climb back or continue on due to the steepness of the terrain, often then facing the problems of bad weather / hypothermia ; persons attempt a climb that requires knowledge or equipment they do not possess and attempt a manoeuvre that result in a serious or fatal fall ; persons become lost or disoriented, often due to change of weather, lose the trail or attempt to take a shortcut and suffer a serious or fatal fall.

Moiraine theorized that this was the result of the Old Blood that many in the Two Rivers are said to possess.

The end result, however, is the explained supernatural, rather than terrors familiar to women, such as rape, incest, ghosts or haunted castles.

As a result, morbid, supernatural, and occult themes became more noticeably serious in the subculture.

Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, the casting of spells or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature.

A crime ( as opposed to a civil wrong or tort ) is an infraction of a law, and will not always have an identifiable individual or group of individuals as its victims, but may also, for example, consist of the preparations that did not result in any damage ( mens rea in the absence of actus reus ), such as attempted murder, offenses against legal persons as opposed to individuals or natural persons, or directed against communal goods such as social order or a social contract or the state itself, as in tax avoidance and tax evasion, treason, or, in non-secular systems, the supernatural ( infractions of religious law ).

Throughout history, there have been many who have claimed having secret knowledge was result of great often supernatural powers, insofar as certain platitudes alluding to an ability and knowledge of the occult ( literally, " hidden ") techniques oft felt could be of great import.

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force a god or supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result.

As a result Glanvill attempted to investigate supposed supernatural incidents through interviews and examination of the scene of the events.

Johnny perceives the layout of the house as constantly changing, though he does not state if this shifting is the result of the supernatural forces at work within the house or his own psychosis.

To quote Gudeman: " Gaining a livelihood might be modelled as a causal and instrumental act, as a natural and inevitable sequence, as a result of supernatural dispositions or as a combination of all these.

Supernatural forces control many human media, law enforcement, and government agencies ; any attempt to reveal the existence of these forces would result in the supernatural manipulators using those connections to paint the Imbued as crazy and dangerous, and to dispose of Imbued who snoop in their affairs and try to impede their control.

The unfortunate side effect of Hermit's powers result in debilitating social anxiety around any form of the supernatural.

It also reveals that all the supernatural groups in the World of Darkness are reincarnations of different Exalted groups, and it hints that the major conflicts in the Exalted world were a result of someone looking into the future and seeing what the World of Darkness had become.

Kakeru, the title character, possesses supernatural powers as a result of a near death experience and consequently must use them to protect those close to him.

As a result of this incident, he gains the supernatural ability to access the " Void Record " when his emotions begin to run high.

One of the book's primary arguments is that many ostensible " manifestations of the Spirit " in charismatic, Pentecostal, and third wave affiliated churches are caused by psychological manipulation of parishioners, and that many of the " signs and wonders " claimed by these churches are fraudulent or result from manipulation, peer pressure, subtle suggestions, altered states of consciousness from repetitive chanting or singing, and expectations of supernatural events.

S. T. Joshi describes several subdivisions of the weird tale: supernatural horror ( or fantastique ), the ghost story, quasi science fiction, fantasy, and ambiguous horror fiction and argues that " the weird tale " is primarily the result of the philosophical and aesthetic predispositions of the authors associated with this type of fiction.

The spiritualists and religious communities tend to interpret mystical levitation as the result of supernatural action of tuning in to the Holy Spirit, spiritual energy, a deity, or sometimes from the influence of a poltergeist.

Sha Wujing is the end result of embellishing a supernatural figure mentioned in Monk Hui Li's ( 慧立 ) 7th century account of the historical Xuanzang called Daciensi Sanzang Fashi Zhuan ( 大慈恩寺三藏法師傳, A Biography of the Tripitaka-master of the Great Ci ' en Monastery ).

But these rivalries rarely result in open combat, since most supernatural beings in the World of Darkness prefer to be hidden.

For instance, Boyer suggests culturally-widespread beliefs in " supernatural agents " ( e. g., gods, ancestors, spirits, and witches ) result from agent detection: the intuitive modular process of assuming intervention by conscious agents, regardless of whether they are present.

As a result of his studies of the supernatural, he was best known as Dr. Ghost or Dr. Yōkai.

It is a supernatural thriller, with the main character Annie ( Cate Blanchett ) becoming involved in a murder mystery as a result of her witnessing the crime with her second sight.

For Merrill, the poetic result was a 560-page apocalyptic epic called The Changing Light at Sandover ( 1982 ), which is in large measure transcribed from supernatural voices.

The result is that the supernatural is only one possible explanation for what has been described.

Auguste Comte, known as father of sociology, formulated the law of three stages: human development progresses from the theological stage, in which nature was mythically conceived and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from supernatural beings, through metaphysical stage in which nature was conceived of as a result of obscure forces and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from them until the final positive stage in which all abstract and obscure forces are discarded, and natural phenomena are explained by their constant relationship.