In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

His Der Freischütz ( 1821 ) shows his genius for creating a supernatural atmosphere.

First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.

The English word reiki derives from the Japanese loanword reiki ( 霊気, meaning " mysterious atmosphere "), which derives from the Chinese loanword língqì ( 靈氣, " supernatural influence ").

" Standard Chinese língqì is translated by Chinese-English dictionaries as: "( of beautiful mountains ) spiritual influence or atmosphere "; " 1. intelligence ; power of understanding ; 2. supernatural power or force in fairy tales ; miraculous power or force "; and " 1. spiritual influence ( of mountains / etc.

was the start of an annual tradition of episodes with stories that bordered on the fantasy, with supernatural elements and a surreal atmosphere.

Papered mosaics, the nave creates a tinted supernatural atmosphere of orientalism.

In the abandoned city the initial atmosphere of the supernatural gives way to intrigue over the oracle.

At the same time that religion binds the individual helpfully to the supernatural and gives him cosmic peace and a sense of supreme fulfillment, it also has great therapeutic value for him.

Whereas Annie's adventures up to the point of Punjab's appearance were realistic and believable, her adventures following his introduction touched upon the supernatural, the cosmic, and the fantastic.

Eupraxsophies, like religions, are cosmic in their outlook, but eschew the supernatural component of religion, avoiding the " transcendental temptation ," as Kurtz puts it.

James, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen, all fin de siécle horror authors known for their subtlety and implications of the cosmic and supernatural in their stories.

He possesses vast supernatural powers, and is essentially invincible to anything but the most powerful magic or the greatest cosmic entities.

However, instead of destroying the planet, the impact of the meteor and its resultant shock wave gives off supernatural cosmic energies that give some inhabitants superpowers while incapacitating others.

" Vaclav Nelhybel crafts a supernatural world, describing nebulae, meteors, star clusters and craters on Mars with sounds natural and manipulated to tell the story of cosmic space.

The pagoda was rebuilt in 1223 and had a list inscribed on it of the recently successful examination candidates, in hopes that it would reverse the trend and win the county supernatural, cosmic favor.

However, unlike most neighboring societies, they reject government, a non-laboring caste, expansion of population or territory, disbelief in what we consider supernatural, and human domination of the natural environment.

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.

Additionally, there is much technology specifically geared towards the supernatural, used by the government organization known as " The Initiative " and the demonic law firm Wolfram and Hart.

They claim that people who have made a deal with the Devil to gain wealth and power have become pawns in a supernatural chess game to move humanity into accepting a utopian world government, which rests on the spiritual foundations of a syncretic-messianic world religion, that will later reveal itself to be a dystopian world empire, which imposes the imperial cult of an “ Unholy Trinity ” — Satan, the Antichrist and the False Prophet.

* In the manga and anime, Hellsing, modern day descendant Integra Hellsing leads a British government strike force against supernatural menaces.

Under her direction, military commandos captured vampires, demons and other supernatural creatures to be studied by scientists for the covert U. S. government operation.

He is supported in his quest by Mina Hakuba, the daughter of the priest of the Hakuba shrine ; Genya Arikado, a mysterious government agent dealing primarily with the supernatural ; Julius Belmont, the latest member of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters featured in the series ; Yoko Belnades, a witch in the service of the Roman Catholic Church ; and Hammer, a vendor of military material who retains a large information network.

In his first letter On the happy increase of the Society ( 25 July 1581 ), he treats of the necessary qualifications for superiors, and points out that government should be directed not by the maxims of human wisdom but by those of supernatural prudence.

Bureau 13 is a fictional top-secret government agency featured in the role-playing game ( RPG ) Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic which investigates and combats supernatural events.

* AEGIS, a fictional government organisation in the role-playing game Conspiracy X that monitors extraterrestrial and supernatural activity

and, since the historian should only be interested in strictly terrestrial activity, his research should eliminate the supernatural.

Carnegie instead preferred to see things through naturalistic and scientific terms stating, " Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

For Deists, human beings can only know God via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or supernatural manifestations ( such as miracles ) – phenomena which Deists regard with caution if not skepticism.

Conditions of stage production in 1817 are illustrated by Rossini's acceptance of the subject of Cinderella for a libretto only on the condition that the supernatural element should be omitted.

Child sacrifice to supernatural figures or forces, such as the one practiced in ancient Carthage, may be only the most notorious example in the ancient world.

The corresponding Modern English verb to ken survives only in highly remote English dialects, and also in the language Scots in the form ( slight differences between dialects ) of tae ken, other than the derivative existing in the standard language in the set expression beyond one ’ s ken, “ beyond the scope of one ’ s knowledge ” and in the phonologically altered form uncanny, “ surreal ” or “ supernatural ”.

This includes the methodological naturalism of natural science, which makes the methodological assumption that observable events in nature are explained only by natural causes, without assuming either the existence or non-existence of the supernatural.

The demonic monkey in " Green Tea " could be a delusion of the story's protagonist, who is the only person to see it ; in " The Familiar ", Captain Barton's death seems to be supernatural, but is not actually witnessed, and the ghostly owl may be a real bird.

Stoker's use of the term refers only to vampires, and the extension to other types of supernatural beings arose later.

In the beginning, Buffy often had to protect her friends from monsters, but over the course of the series most of them gained superpowers and fighting skills of their own, with Xander the only notable member with no mystical abilities or connection to the supernatural, though he does acquire extensive military knowledge thanks to a spell.

It is also the only one of Wagner's mature operas in which there are no supernatural or magical powers or events.

Jones claims that he has no belief in the supernatural, only to have his skepticism challenged when he discovers the Ark.

The Boxers were only lightly armed with rifles and swords, claiming supernatural invulnerability towards blows of cannon, rifle gunshots, and knife attacks.

Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.

The only true supernatural event in the story occurs as described during one of Jessie's flashbacks, when, during a particularly stressful incident at the time of childhood, she has a waking dream.

This mysteriousness attached with the supernatural not only captures the audience and Antony, but also, draws all other characters ’ focus.

Roman Catholic sources claim many miraculous and supernatural properties for the image such as that the tilma has maintained its structural integrity over nearly 500 years, while replicas normally last only about 15 years before suffering degradation ; that it repaired itself with no external help after a 1791 ammonia spill that did considerable damage, and that on 14 November 1921 a bomb damaged the altar, but left the icon unharmed.

Lovecraft borrowed Chambers ' method of only vaguely referring to supernatural events, entities, and places, thereby allowing his readers to imagine the horror for themselves.

Ọdịnala therefore, anchored its belief on the existence of only but one Supreme Being: Chukwu ( God ) and many lower supernatural beings or deities ( Arushi ).

Samson was granted supernatural strength by God in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats such as wrestling a lion, slaying an entire army with only the jawbone of an ass, and destroying a pagan temple.

Rather, they present him " as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past ".

In Catholic theology, a supernatural merit can only be a salutary act to which God in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward.

Finally, a supernatural motive is required because good works must be supernatural, not only as regards their object and circumstances, but also as regards the end for which they are performed ( ex fine ).