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An independent bookshop which specialises in horror, fantasy, folklore and the occult is trying to raise £20,000 to save it from closing.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Almost all exorcists, at the urging of the Vatican, keep their identities secret, their role in battling the occult known only to the other priests in their diocese.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

Watching women fight off the arms of the occult has a clock on it.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

The museum sells occult essentials, cursed antiques and movie merchandise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

Age and experience had sharpened Clara’s ability to divine the occult and to move objects from afar.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Moon passes in front of the Pleiades, and occults them successively, it is hard to believe one's eyes.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby

This is very strikingly shown when the Moon, in its monthly progress among the stars, passes before one of them and occults it.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

We note the stars it occults, or passes by, and leaves behind as it broadens its disk, till it rises full-orbed in the east when the sun sinks in the west.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

The movie’s details and themes remain theoretical, a blurred thesis about crime and punishment, about incarceration and isolation, about the occulted oppressions and subjections on which society depends.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2019

Stern and his colleagues chased 2014 MU69 on land and through the air last summer as it occulted, or passed in front of, three background stars.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2017

Extended Data Fig. 2The occulted star spectrum and model.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014

Astronomers discovered the atmosphere in 1988, when Pluto occulted another star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2013

And though the solution to this mystery was, to my young mind, occulted, yet did 1 know where it lay: behind the forbidden door.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This occurs when its orbit passes on the line of sight between the Earth and the star, partially occulting the star -- causing a decrease in its brightness that can be observed and quantified.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

Although in actual and deliberate transit on rollers across the backyard and still occulting a part of the view, it remained, after the reckless fashion of the period, inhabited.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte

In her blind rage she forgot to cast the occulting veil.

From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt

Shafts of brighter light swept across and across the water from occulting beacons set at long intervals among buoys.

From Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham

Perhaps a dark ring of absorptive or occulting matter encircles the nebula in nearly the same plane with the luminous whorls.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd