preternatural

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Switchback by Melissa F. Olseon In last year’s Nightshades, Melissa F. Olseon introduced readers to The Bureau of Preternatural Investigations, a federal agency tasked with confronting Shades, a type of vampire.

From The Verge • Oct. 1, 2017

Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Natural Actions in them produced Preternatural actions in the Afflicted, so that they are their own Image without any Poppits of Wax or otherwise.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

Now, God had been pleased so to leave this G. B. that he had ensnared himself by several Instances, which he had formerly given of a Preternatural Strength, and which were now produced against him.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

Preternatural we often called it; seemingly in the language of exaggeration: but listen to the cold deposition of witnesses.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas