This is done for the blessing of her worshippers, to spread blessings, and to repel evil for them.

It is also combined with Indian chillies to make a protective charm to repel the evil eye.

The Chinese use pomelo leaves in a ritual bath, which they believe helps to cleanse a person and repel evil.

Some examples include the Bard ( a cross between the Thief and Mage with an emphasis on interpersonal skills, mental and visual spells, and supportive magical abilities ), or the Paladin ( a cross between the Fighter and Cleric with slightly decreased combat skills but various innate abilities that are used to heal or protect allies and repel and / or smite evil opponents ).

A number of practices, such as shutters painted blue are also used to repel evil spirits.

Saint Teresa of Avila, a Doctor of the Church who reported visions of Jesus and Mary, was a strong believer in the power of holy water and wrote that she used it with success to repel evil and temptations.

Saint Teresa of Avila, a Doctor of the Church who reported visions of Jesus and Mary, was a strong believer in the power of Holy water and wrote that she used it with success to repel evil and temptations.

This comes out in `` When The Bells Ring '', which describes the rallying of the peasants in southern Sweden to repel an invasion by the Danes.

and, now and in the future unlike in the past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of it will, by human action, render this planet less habitable by the human race.

In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

The crusaders ' second attack proved too strong to repel, and Alexios V fled into Thrace on the night of 12 April 1204, accompanied by Eudokia Angelina and her mother Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.

As alternating or direct current flows through the coil and induces a magnetic field in both vanes, the vanes repel each other and the moving vane deflects against the restoring force provided by fine helical springs.

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

The coyote's instinctive fear of cougars has led to the development of sound systems which repel coyotes from public places by replicating the sounds of a cougar.

If a similar ball is charged by the same glass rod, it is found to repel the first: the charge acts to force the two balls apart.

They attract or repel each other by exchanging bosons.

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

In simple terms, the electrons, which repel one another, can move " further apart " by aligning their spins, so the spins of these electrons tend to line up.

The planet is protected from physical attack by the impenetrable barrier called the quantum force field, named presumably after the Eye of Harmony, and from teleportation incursions by the transduction barrier-which can be reinforced to repel most levels of this type of technological attack.

* The Australian Army defines the role of the infantry thus: " The role of the Infantry is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize or hold ground and repel attack, by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain.

* The United States Army describes the mission of infantry: " The Infantry closes with the enemy by means of fire and maneuver in order to destroy or capture him or to repel his assault by fire, close combat, and counterattack.

* 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.

Pods of female sperm whales sometimes protect themselves by forming a protective circle around their calves with their flukes facing outwards, using them to repel the attackers.

After the success of the uprising on 7 – 8 November, Trotsky led the efforts to repel a counter-attack by Cossacks under General Pyotr Krasnov and other troops still loyal to the overthrown Provisional Government at Gatchina.

Mao rose to power by commanding the Long March, forming a united front with Kuomintang ( KMT ) during the Second Sino-Japanese War to repel a Japanese invasion, and leading the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) to victory against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang ( KMT ) in the Chinese Civil War.

The North Korean government invested heavily in its military, hoping to develop the capability to reunify Korea by force if possible and also preparing to repel any attack by South Korea or the United States.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet.

The Texians took cover in a horseshoe-shaped gully ; their good defensive position, longer firing range, and better ammunition helped them to repel several Mexican attacks, and the Mexican soldiers retreated just 30 minutes before the remainder of the Texian Army arrived.

Pantry moth spray and insecticides made with essential oils and natural ingreidents are a good alternative to chemical pesticides when using around food and pets, and can repel the moths from coming back.

Dung offers the same advantage and is also added to repel insects.

Chervil is sometimes used to repel slugs.

The cathode supplies electrons to the positively charged cations which flow to it from the electrolyte ( even if the cell is galvanic, i. e., when the cathode is positive and therefore would be expected to repel the positively charged cations ; this is due to electrode potential relative to the electrolyte solution being different for the anode and cathode metal / electrolyte systems in a galvanic cell ).

DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitoes.

# Magnetic poles ( or states of polarization at individual points ) attract or repel one another in a similar way and always come in pairs: every north pole is yoked to a south pole.

Lenin begins from the premise that guerrilla warfare must be linked to struggle of the masses of the working class, or else it is against the interests of revolution: ' the acts of individuals isolated from the masses, which demoralise the workers, repel wide strata of the population, disorganise the movement and injure the revolution '".

Its complex structure slides as the hair swells and is covered with a single molecular layer of lipid that makes the hair repel water.

To print an image lithographically, the flat surface of the stone plate is roughened slightly — etched — and divided into hydrophilic regions that accept a film of water, and thereby repel the greasy ink ; and hydrophobic regions that repel water and accept ink because the surface tension is greater on the greasy image area, which remains dry.

The origin of the energy released in fusion of light elements is due to an interplay of two opposing forces, the nuclear force which draws together protons and neutrons, and the Coulomb force which causes protons to repel each other.

* June 25 – June 27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro: Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino / Liberal ( supporters of Queen Isabella II ) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.

According to Article I, Section 8 ; Clause 14, the United States Congress is given the power to pass laws for " calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

The next day Powell, disagreed with the Labour Party leader Michael Foot's claim that the British government was acting under the authority of the United Nations: " The right of self-defence —- to repel aggression and to expel an invader from one's territory and one's people whom he has occupied and taken captive -— is, as the Government have said, an inherent right.

* In the Harry Potter series, the Patronus Charm that Harry Potter conjures to repel Dementors is a silver stag.

When the electrode is charged by induction or by contact, the leaves acquire similar electric charges and repel each other due to the Coulomb force.