Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

The Old English cognate was dréag (" apparition, ghost ").

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

This recognition of a religious apparition from likeness to an image was also a characteristic of pagan pious accounts of appearances of gods to humans, and was a regular topos in hagiography.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

In October 1817, a tubular, glowing apparition was claimed to have been seen in the Jewel House by the Keeper of the Crown Jewels, Edmund Lenthal Swifte.

When Sister Lúcia was asked in an interview why the Blessed Virgin appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in her last apparition, she replied: " Because Our Lady wants all to wear the Scapular ...

For example, " 1P / 1982 U1, 1986 III, 1982i " indicates that for the perihelion in 1986, Halley's Comet was the first period comet known ( designated 1P ) and this apparition was the first seen in " half-month " U ( the first half of November ) in 1982 ( giving 1P / 1982 U1 ); it was the third comet past perihelion in 1986 ( 1986 III ); and it was the ninth comet spotted in 1982 ( provisional designation 1982i ).

The apparition of 87 BCE was recorded in Babylonian tablets which state that the comet was seen " day beyond day " for a month.

The apparition of 12 BCE was recorded in the Book of Han by Chinese astronomers of the Han Dynasty who tracked it from August through October.

The 141 CE apparition was recorded in Chinese chronicles.

The 684 CE apparition was recorded in Europe in one of the sources used by the compiler of the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicles.

The 1145 apparition was recorded by the monk Eadwine.

Some claim that Genghis Khan was inspired to turn his conquests toward Europe by the 1222 apparition.

Halley's apparition of 1456 was also witnessed in Kashmir and depicted in great detail by Śrīvara, a Sanskrit poet and biographer to the Sultans of Kashmir.

Halley's 1910 apparition is distinct from the Great Daylight Comet of 1910, which surpassed Halley in brilliance and was actually visible in broad daylight for a short period, approximately four months before Halley made its appearance.

This apparition is also deeply unsettling to Macbeth, who not only wants the throne for himself, but also desires to father a line of kings.

The only surviving record of the 164 BCE apparition is found on two fragmentary Babylonian tablets, now owned by the British Museum.

It is expected to have an apparent magnitude of − 0. 3, compared with only + 2. 1 for the 1986 apparition.

The only things that show up are a hungry stray dog named Prince that starts feeding on Gerald's body and a terrifying, deformed apparition that may or may not be real, whom Jessie first mistakes for the ghost of her long dead father but dismisses it later.

In the majority of Marian apparitions only a few people report having witnessed the apparition.

In the episode, Jessica appears as an apparition whom only Benson can see or hear and reveals to him that she is not dead, but in a coma somewhere in South America.

* During the octave of Corpus Christi, 1675, probably on June 16, the vision known as the " great apparition " reportedly took place, where Jesus said, " Behold the Heart that has so loved men ... instead of gratitude I receive from the greater part ( of mankind ) only ingratitude ...", and asked Margaret Mary for a feast of reparation of the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, bidding her consult her confessor Father Claude de la Colombière, then superior of the small Jesuit house at Paray.

The only apparition that is potentially heaven-sent is that of Elvira ’ s ghost.

Sloane subsequently is haunted by an apparition of Nadia, who states she is only appearing because Sloane wants her to be there.

While not physically disabled, he very rarely moves from his throne, and can transform into a mist / apparition in order to leave Viltheed in which he only did in two episodes, ' The Knitted Balloon ' and ' Spildit.

That night, Glen sees his bedroom wall stretching, and Terry embraces a heavenly apparition of his dead mother, only to have it turn out to be the body of Angus, Glen's recently-deceased dog.

Ginger ( Katharine Isabelle ), her late sister, appears to her as an apparition, saying that she is healing faster and the monkshood is not a cure, it only slows the transformation.

According to Rendalen, the " story " claimed not only that the cursed well was real, but that a bat-like apparition had risen out of it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky.

The apparition is also deeply unsettling to Macbeth, who not only wants the throne for himself, but also desires to father a line of kings.

The locked boathouse door repeatedly is found open, blood seeps from the walls, George momentarily sees an apparition of Jodie behind Kathy as the digital clock from the basement, now by their bed, flicks from 3: 14 to 3: 15 am and the family dog incessantly barks at things only he can see.

However, to date only one single example of a combined weeping statue and apparition ( namely Our Lady of Akita ) has been approved by the Vatican and the rest have usually been dismissed as hoaxes.

To put it in its historical context, this apparition took place only nine years after the declaration of papal infallibility, and shortly before the death of Archbishop MacHale.

This is the only reported apparition of Mary to have occurred before her supposed Assumption.

On the first night, she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish, but harmless sea captain named Daniel Gregg ( Rex Harrison ), who reluctantly promises to make himself known only to her ; Anna is too young for ghosts.

In the 20th century, in the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, Sister Lúcia, one of the most famous visionaries of Our Lady, said that the Virgin appeared to her as Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( holding the Brown Scapular ).

It is said that Felix appeared as an apparition to one of his descendants, his great-granddaughter Trasilla ( an aunt of Pope Gregory I ), and asked her to enter Heaven through death, and on the eve of Christmas Trasilla died, seeing Jesus Christ beckoning.

* Daffy ( Mister Duck )-A Scottish traveller and one of the three original founders of the beach ; appears as a mental apparition in Richard's consciousness in the later parts of the novel after his suicide.

* Tiresias ' impressive apparition in Odyssey xi kept his image a lively one, and the figure of Tiresias has been much-invoked by fiction writers and poets.

A Marian apparition is an event in which someone believes the Blessed Virgin Mary has supernaturally appeared to one or more people.

Architecturally designed after the tiny country church at Knock, Ireland ( which became famous when the miraculous apparition of Our Lady of Knock appeared there in 1878 ), St. Kieran's was rumored to be one of Bishop Neumann's favored parishes.

When one of the girls threw holy water at the niche and another threw a rock from above that shattered on the ground, the apparition disappeared.

Here are a few: Linga Sarira, Sanskrit, meaning design body, and the best one of all ; ethereal double ; phantom ; wraith ; apparition ; doppelganger ; personal man ; perispirit ; irrational soul ; animal soul ; Bhuta ; elementary ; spook ; devil ; demon.

The Nadia apparition makes one final appearance before vanishing.

An apparition of Edward the Seventh also recites a line from one of the unused stanzas (" My methods are new and are causing surprise.

Three versions of the apparition are shown intermittently to confuse the viewer-one with the figure, one where it is slightly faded out, and one where it is not seen at all.

Summerwind is known as one of the most haunted places in America, with Lamont himself firing a pistol at an apparition.

), for echoes, and a special class of bubbles for one single floating apparition.

Doomgiver prevails over Soulcutter in that same book, turning its despair back at the Gods, and it is also hinted at Doomgiver's power would prove superior to the other Swords, including being able to turn Farslayer back at the one who threw it, that Sightblinder's holder would see a terrible apparition while remaining vulnerable, that the Mindsword holder should worship Doomgiver's holder, and Coinspinner's master would suffer excruciating bad luck.

Babe appears one last time on September 21, 2011 as an apparition to JR. She tries to help JR get through the rough time in his life as he has lost his house, his company, and his son.

If people saw an apparition warning them of their death then one would think this phenomenon would be more widely known and believed.

The pilot of the Nestor, Paul Stein, suddenly sees an apparition of his older brother Kevin ( one of the crew of the ill-fated Slayton ), who explains that they are all dead and disappears.

According to the book Our Lady of Fátima by William Thomas Walsh ( Macmillan, 1947 ), in an interview with the author Sr. Lucia states that, “ The correct form is the one I have written in my account of the apparition of July 13: ‘ O my Jesus, pardon us, and save us from the fire of hell ; draw all souls to heaven, especially those most in need .’” Note that this version does not have the commonly-added phrase “ of thy mercy ” to the end of it.

Puyupuyan ( Known for its groto and the apparition in the late 80s and early 90s, Puyupuyan is one of the best Summer destinations in the town.

* Puyupuyan-Known for its grotto and the apparition in the late 80s and early 90s, Puyupuyan is one of the best Summer destinations in the town.