occult
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Occult pyrotechnics and bloody business of all kinds are not allowed to obscure the interior shifts of the shifty Macbeths.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
The "innovative" MA in Magic and Occult Science has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic", the course leader said.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023
Shortly after the first archeologist death a few months following the tomb’s discovery, newspaper headlines blared about the “Curse of the Pharaohs” and claimed, “Famous Spiritualist Sees Occult Reason for Fatality.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
On a recent visit, it displayed titles like “Mussolini Boys” and “The Occult Origins of Nazism.”
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
I nodded silently, too scared of this Apostle of the Occult to call forth my voice, and headed for the door.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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