Draugar possess superhuman strength, can increase their size at will, and carry the unmistakable stench of decay.

Draugar are noted for having numerous magical abilities ( referred to as trollskap ) resembling those of living witches and wizards, such as shape-shifting, controlling the weather, and seeing into the future.

Draugar have the ability to enter into the dreams of the living.

Draugar also have the ability to curse a victim, as shown in the Grettis Saga where Grettir is cursed to be unable to become any stronger.

Draugar also brought disease to a village and could create temporary darkness in daylight hours.

Draugar are able to leave this dwelling place and visit the living during the night.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.

He believed that each culture has to be studied in its particularity, and argued that cross-cultural generalizations, like those made in the natural sciences, were not possible.

Pythagoras believed that behind the appearance of things, there was the permanent principle of mathematics, and that the forms were based on a transcendental mathematical relation.

In 2006 there were believed to be 4, 035 species of amphibians that depended on water at some stage during their life cycle.

The Sadducees were an ancient Jewish sect that generally believed that there was a God but no afterlife.

They believed the continuities of the deepest structures were central to history, beside which upheavals in institutions or the superstructure of social life were of little significance, for history lies beyond the reach of conscious actors, especially the will of revolutionaries.

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.

Pagi, usually pairs of pagi combined, formed kingdoms ( regna ) which, it is generally believed, were permanent and hereditary.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

He believed that animals were able to infer the relation between cause and effect in the same way that humans do: through learned expectations.

Its name means " no feet " in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise ( which were once believed to lack feet ).

Spencer believed that just as there were many varieties of beetles, respectively modified to existence in a particular place in nature, so too had human society “ spontaneously fallen into division of labour ”.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

* Manpower: Abu Sayyaf forces in Basilan and in Zamboanga Peninsula were, by June 2003, believed to number less than 500, down from more than 1, 000 a year earlier.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

There were several on the Council who tried to live like Christians.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

It might be that certain people were born with a compulsion to complicate their lives, while others could live blissfully motionless almost indefinitely, like lizards in the sun, too indolent to blink their eyes.

One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;

The most important aims of the Jewish students were as follows: to make the world a better place to live in -- 30 per cent ; ;

As long as her development within her shell lived up to expectations, and there were no side-effects from the pituitary tinkering, Helva would live a rewarding, rich and unusual life, a far cry from what she would have faced as an ordinary, `` normal '' being.

In a study of older adults, those who volunteered were significantly higher on life satisfaction and will to live, and significantly lower in depression, anxiety, and somatization.

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

After the arrest of Keizo in 1967, Tamara and her son Alexei Nakamura were expelled from Kamchatka Krai and sent to the island of Sakhalin, to live in the city of Tomari.

It was intended to hold about three million people, and only those with either with connections or those who were chosen by lottery are allowed to live there.

However, a few families were permitted to live in two villages, Endingen and Lengnau, in Aargau which became the Jewish ghetto in Switzerland.

During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

Though the marriage was annulled, Nin and Pole continued to live together as if they were married, up until her death in 1977.

The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.

Aircrew and maintenance training with live missiles were completed in June.

Some scenes, like Evil Ash walking along the graveyard while his skeleton minions come to life, blended stop-motion animation with live skeletons that were mechanically rigged, with prosthetics and visual effects.

He took his old nurse with him as a servant and they settled down to live in Enfide, near a church to St Peter, in some kind of association with " a company of virtuous men " who were in sympathy with his feelings and his views of life.

All the members of the upper classes and many of the ordinary people were taken captive and carried off to live as prisoners of war.

While his finances were always precarious, he did not live and die in poverty as was the common myth.

Parts of the community were an official crime-scene and therefore residents were unable to return to live or even collect property.

Many of the displaced residents were not allowed to return to the area for months and none were given government guidance of where to live temporarily on the already crowded island of Manhattan.