Supernatural Elements Research Articles

Junkwraith by Ellinor Richey

Reviewed by: Junkwraith by Ellinor Richey April Spisak Richey, Ellinor Junkwraith; written and illus. by Ellinor Richey. Top Shelf, 2021 [288p] Paper ed. ISBN 9781603095006 $24.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 4-6 In a fit of pique and exhaustion, Florence throws away her ice skates. One would expect she could just come back for them once she calms down, but in this futuristic world, the act of throwing away something she used to love has dire consequences, and a ghost is now attacking her memories as punishment for the abandonment. The junkwraith is formidable, and Florence begins her quest into the Wastelands with almost no assistance or confidence, hardly a worthy opponent for a vengeful spirit. This Swedish graphic novel uses color in brilliant ways, with washed out, muted city scenes echoing the more vibrantly shaded panels when Florence begins to find herself on her quest. The dynamic, unexpected linework reenforces the setting, a futuristic world that is only hinted at in the illustrations and occasional comments. The concept that all the waste we make will haunt us is a compelling one, as is the premise that once-precious, discarded things have the most potential to torture us: this is Toy Story gone horribly wrong. Give this genre-fluid tale to [End Page 102] horror, science fiction, and fantasy buffs, or even realistic fiction readers who don’t mind their family explorations or coming of age stories souped up with some supernatural elements. Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Misyjne nauczanie Jana Pawła II podczas pielgrzymek do Polski

During his pilgrimages to his homeland, John Paul II was teaching his countrymen about the problems specifi c to the Church in Poland, but also to the whole Church. One of these themes was the missions ad gentes. The Pope noticed and pointed out on the example of the history of his nation that missions built Polish statehood and shaped Polish culture. He called for this process to be recognized in the history of Europe as a whole and to recognize in evangelization the factor that builds and defi nes its true identity. He showed that missions help imbue human culture with a supernatural element. He recalled the truth about the missionary nature of the Church and the missionary vocation of all its members. Responsibility and cooperation in the missionary work was for John Paul II one of the forms of the “imagination of mercy.” Appealing to his countrymen for missionary generosity and commitment, he also pointed to the fi gures who were involved in the animation of the missionary work in the Polish and universal Church. In his teaching in Poland, he recalled the missionary task of the Church community and of each and every faithful.

A Repentant Shadow of old Mariner in Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The present paper is an attempt of Coleridge's psychological, supernatural phenomenon, perspective and uncertainty in human life through the Old Mariner life. Somewhere somebody offence in life needed to recognizance sins and repentance. Before death, need to confession and repentance. Coleridge almost represents his love for creatures and nature in the poem and inscribe the marvellous nature imagery in this poem. Coleridge confluence natural with supernatural elements in Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He presents 'Death' into mariner lives. Coleridge proved that punishment of any sin is an opportunity for Repentant – the way of salvation. This is a mariner who killed albatross merciless and bagged to mercy with Jesus, pray to him. It is the form of mankind. The paper shows mankind's nature, his psychology every aspect of life.

Revisiting Official History in Evangel Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty

This article aims to analyze Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty to prove that the author reimagines and rewrites official history in his novel with combination and blurring of fact and fiction. It is studied from theoretical parameters of historiographic metafiction. Through an amalgamation of fact and fiction, the novel challenges the traditional version of the official history of Nepal and Germany. The subjectivity inherent in historiographic narratives is further explored through Athial’s representation of historical character Hitler in the novel. The presence of major characters creates confusion about the nature of the novel as a work of fiction or as historiographic account. Through the use of irony and supernatural elements, Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty becomes a parody of historiographic narratives which claim to be objective. The blurring of the boundaries between fiction and history and constructedness of history through discourse is the main idea in this paper. The writer imitates the genre of the historical novel but reveals its limitations and corresponds to what Linda Hutcheon calls historiographic metafiction. The novel mines the elements of the then history of Hitler, Germany, and Nepalese Shah Dynasty with the personal history of the author to revise and redefine the official version of history. This revisiting of mainstream history helps to establish the notion of plurality of historical accounts and a rejection of objectivity in historical writings. This novel has metafictional mode of writing, and the author represents metafictional parody in which historical incidents are repeated with a difference to show that history is discourse and is always open to interpretation.

Rabbis Versus Harmful Mice

This study discusses two stories in Jerusalem Talmud on R. Pinḥhas ben Yair who controls mice and forces them to gather in one place and to do his wishes. The two stories have in common their demonstration of the learned sage’s power to utilize miracles to deal with a harmful animal, thereby saving the people. The "decree" issued by R. Pinḥas ben Yair is permissible kind of ḥover ḥaver as it operates within the framework of Jewish rules and does not contain forbidden supernatural elements customary in the pagan world.

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s WarLiterary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary NationModernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s WarLiterary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary NationModernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Vibrasi Pikiran, Kerusakan Ozon dan Bencana Alam Satu Kesatuan Sistem Kesadaran Kosmos Perspektif Teo-Kosmologis Post Metafisika

<p><em>The Vedas have various concepts and theories about the creation of the universe. Vedic concepts are accepted by revelation, while Vedanta theories are created through contemplative research on macrocosms and microcosms. Creation theories in Vedanta, are: Manah theory or the theory of Virat, this theory states that the universe created from the mind of God. The second is the theory of Sabda, this theory states that the universe is created from the Voice of God, this theory is similar to the Big Bang theory. Other theory is the theory of Apah, this theory states that the universe came from water, and there are also many other theories. These theories seem to be compatible with modern scientific theories. This shows that the Vedic teachings have been an inspiration for scientists.</em><em></em></p><em>The Manah theory, sabda theory, Apah theory, and other theories are embedded by Hiranyagarbha theory. This theory states that the human mind, the mind of the cosmos, and the human mind, historically-theo-cosmologically, have a very close relationship. Hiranyagarbha theory that became the foundation of Hindu Cosmology describes that before the universe was created, there was an element of astaprakriti, the eight subtle elements without size (tan matra). The eight supernatural elements are buddhi (intellect), manas (mind), ahamkara (ego), akhasa (ether), vayu (air), teja (fire), apah (water), and pritivi (land), all within the warehouse. The universe is called Hiranyagarbha. Based on the Hiranyagarbha theory, the creation of the macrocosm begins with the consciousness of God, then moves the mind of God (Manas) connected to the manas that is on Hiranyagarbha. After the macrocosm, humans were created, then the mind of God, the mind of the cosmos, and the human mind have connectivity with each other. Therefore, do not ever think negative about anything.</em>

Literary analysis of “One Thousand Nights” by Ratan Nath Sarshar

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of folk tales compiled in Arabic language in Islamic golden age. Ratan Nath Sarshar (1846-1903) was an Urdu novelist, from British India who did the Urdu translation of One Thousand and One Nights from English version. This Urdu translation known as Alif Laila was influenced by Muslim civilization and culture of the subcontinent. Literary analysis explores writer’s perspective through the critical evaluation of the work. It is accomplished by examining the elements such as character, setting, tone, imagery and use of literary devices which are metaphor, similes and allusions, etc. Alif Laila’s literary analysis examines all the measures of these tales with the specific focus on literary features such as character, setting, tone, imagery, use of literary devices, humor and supernatural elements.

Matthew Tindal i redukcja chrześcijaństwa do religii naturalnej

In his Christianity as Old as the Creation Matthew Tindal has reduced Christian religion to the natural religion. His reduction was the last stage of purification of Protestant religion from its supernatural elements. This whole process was taking place in England between 1534 and 1730. The main conclusion of this English deist sounded: the revealed religion was the only repetition of the eternal natural religion, based on the law of nature and human reason. Simultaneously he claimed that any Christian proprium (specific Christian content) did not exist in relation to any other non Christian religion. In this article I put this problem through critical assesment, making analysis of Tindal’s argumentation and confronting it with (to some degree) Thomas Becconsall views, expressed in his The Grounds and Foundation of Natural Religion. In contrast to Becconsall Tindal understands the nature of man in another way. This latter rejects the opinion that human nature was burdened with certain moral ineffectuality. According to it human being is more prone to misdeeds than to good deeds. In Christian religion it was possible to explain by the original sin and its hereditary effects in the history of mankind. Matthew Tindal rejects this Christian dogma. In reality he understands man’s existence in the state of pure nature and with reason acting without limitations. It corresponds to the situation of man before the Fall into the original sin. But Tindal is not any atheist. He is convinced of God’s existence as the Creator of the world and people. The reason of human beings participates in the light of Divine Wisdom. Thus cognition of God and human moral duties are possible (in practice) by intellectual effort directed to the sensible creatures only. This kind of rational investigation is characteristic for methaphysical cognition. In fact, there is small step from deism to atheism. English Enlightenment, based on the enlightened reason, was initially deistic character, afterwards on the Continent (especially in France) it quickly assumed atheistic form. In considerable degree it was possible owing to English deists like Matthew Tindal. They draw the ultimate conclusion from the plurality of Protestant denominations.

An Exploration on Poetic and Supernatural Element in the Bride of Lammermoor By Walter Scott

This research article investigates the poetic and supernatural representation in the literature of Walter Scott. His teaching, and antiquarian skills into his investigation of the possibilities of the survival, of the supernatural elements. The ballads and an unlettered legends tradition that appear to confirm his position as a believer in superstitious and irrational practices. This article will argue that Hogg possesses a shrewd and sophisticated understanding of the authority of the supernatural. This is visible in his hard literary work to evidence and looks into various types of uncanny evidence when compared with those of Scott.

Dancing bears and talking toasters: A content analysis of supernatural elements in children’s media.

Dancing bears and talking toasters: A content analysis of supernatural elements in children’s media.

The Life and Times of Lilian Lee: An Analysis of Lee's Screenplays From Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives

Lilian Lee, a novelist and screenwriter, is a prominent figure in the Hong Kong film industry and literary circles. Her unique writing style has earned her wide acclaim. Most of her works feature romances, fantasies or mysteries, showing her creative imagination. However, she didn't let love stories and supernatural elements overshadow the full picture she depicted. Instead, she further explored themes such as gender identity, sexual orientation and feminism, and dug deeper into a broad range of topics including mortality, fatality, history and patriotism. She revealed the complexity of human nature and the inner conflicts her characters underwent through incisive remarks and heart-rending stories. Her best-known works include Farewell My Concubine, Green Snake, Rouge and Kawashima Yoshiko, all of which are considered masterpieces, representing a milestone in the history of Asian cinema. Farewell My Concubine remains the only Chinese-language film to win both the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was included in Time's list of "All-Time" 100 Movies in 2005. Rouge had 16 nominations and awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. It also earned Lee the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay. The critical and commercial success of these films is largely attributed to Lee's screenwriting, and the success of her screenwriting rests on her relatively fixed writing mindset. This article focuses on screenplays written by Lilian Lee and analyzes her construction of plot, narrative techniques and her writing mindset and style, by exploring the influence of her personal experience, aesthetic preference, writing habits, and her cultural, social and educational background on her works.

Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

Robert Ervin Howard’s Vision of the Supernatural in Beyond the Black River

The plot and the presented world of Robert Ervin Howard’s Beyond the Black River are representative of sword and sorcery, a subgenre of fantasy fiction that Howard is claimed to have pioneered. It has been proposed that the worlds in fantasy fiction are coherently organised, natural, and material. Nevertheless, supernatural elements that are not consis-tent with the structure of the universe are present. The struggle between the structured worlds and the chaotic supernatural that is resolved by an intervention of a barbarian hero constitute the essence of the sword and sorcery subgenre. These elements can also be found in Beyond the Black River by Howard, who employs contrastive images to present the super-natural.

Towards a Supernatural Propaganda. The DPRK Myth in the Movie The Big-Game Hunter

For a long time, the world thought that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 would lead to a similar outcome in North Korea. Although the Kim regime suffered harsh economic troubles, it was able to distance itself from communism without facing an ideological crisis and losing mass support. The same core political myths are still in use today. However, after the DPRK left the ideas of socialist realism behind, it has become clearer that the ideology of the country is a political religion. Now, its propaganda is using more supernatural elements than ever before. A good example is the movie The Big-Game Hunter (Maengsu sanyangkkun) in which the Japanese are trying to desacralize Paektu Mountain, but instead experience the fury of the holy mountain in the form of thunderbolts. The movie was produced in 2011 by P’yo Kwang, one of the most successful North Korean directors. It was filmed in the same year Kim Chŏng-ŭn came to power. The aim of the paper is to show the evolution of the DPRK political myth in North Korean cinema, in which The Big-Game Hunter seems to be another step in the process of mythologization. It is crucial to understand how the propaganda works, as it is still largely the cinema that shapes the attitudes and imagination of the people of the DPRK.

Ancient Medicine from Mesopotamia to Rome by Laura M. Zucconi

Reviewed by: Ancient Medicine from Mesopotamia to Rome by Laura M. Zucconi Jessica Wright Ancient Medicine from Mesopotamia to Rome. By Laura M. Zucconi. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. Pp. xxii + 432. Hardback, $110. ISBN 978-0-8028-6983-8. Ancient Medicine from Mesopotamia to Rome makes a significant intervention in the field of ancient medicine by decentering Greco-Roman sources and casting its geographical and cultural frame to focus on Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Levant. Through this approach, Zucconi is able to avoid the standard account of ancient medicine as naturalistic by definition, a perspective that is all but inevitable when taking the Hippocratic Corpus as a starting-point, as is usually the case. The book comprises nine richly documented chapters, each focusing on healing practices in specific regions or cultures of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Mesopotamia, pre-Ptolemaic Egypt, Canaan (including Phoenicians and Israelites), the Hittites, Classical and Hellenistic Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, Italy (Etruscan and Roman), Second Temple Judaism and Persia. Each chapter, with the exception of Chapter 7, on Hellenistic medicine, follows an identical structure that encompasses general context (e.g. geography, politics), healing practices (e.g. diagnostic tools) and technical knowledge (physiology, anatomy, nosology). This approach reflects Zucconi’s explicit incorporation of a medical anthropological paradigm, which treats medicine as a cultural practice that can therefore be best understood within its social and cultural contexts. It also enables Zucconi to successfully demonstrate a central argument of the book, which is that each of the chapters “represents a local manifestation of a wider ancient medical culture” (1). That is, healing practices vary across the cultures and regions of the ancient Mediterranean, but all of them share core principles and ideas. One important implication of this argument is that Hippocratic medicine is just one local manifestation of a widespread and varied medical culture, and should no longer be treated as a kind of unique or miraculous predecessor to modern biomedicine. A distinctive strength of Ancient Medicine is that Zucconi offers a guide to archaeological and textual evidence for medicine in each of the cultures that it examines. Zucconi provides useful bibliographical information (for example, the different series of tablets that provide the basis for our understanding of Mesopotamian healing practices) and also critiques historical and existing practices of organizing and interpreting these sources. This both opens up a set of scholarly resources and establishes a basis for Zucconi to critically examine how expectations about what counts as ancient medicine have influenced the [End Page 255] organization and interpretation of sources. The critique centers especially around scholarly projection of the modern categories “magical” and “scientific” onto ancient texts. As Zucconi demonstrates repeatedly, ancient healing practices incorporated natural and supernatural elements. A clear example that she provides is the analysis of the “scientific” prescription of drugs through the lens of healing ritual: an oral rite, a physical rite, a charged substance. As Zucconi shows, drugs may operate as charged substances within the ancient context, but be interpreted in scientific terms as pharmacological substances by modern scholars. Zucconi amply demonstrates that distinctions between science, magic and religion, are unhelpful for the study of medicine in the ancient Near East. Zucconi’s reframing of ancient medical cultures is in part a strategy of names and renaming: Chapter 4, for example, details in large part with ancient Israelites and the Hebrew scriptures, but is titled “Canaanite Medicine,” and therefore both includes the Phoenicians and points the reader’s attention to all of the other Canaanite communities for which we have little evidence. Chapter 9, titled “Etruscan and Roman Medicine,” inevitably focuses on Latin texts, since Etruscan material is limited. The chapter on Ptolemaic Egypt, following closely after chapters on Classical Greek and Hellenistic medicine, deals similarly with the legacy of the Greek medical tradition, albeit within the Egyptian context. This difficulty in actually dislodging the centrality of Greece, Rome and Israel reflects the imbalance of extant sources. Yet, Zucconi’s strategy is successful in drawing the reader’s attention to the many, varied medical cultures that are obscured by the traditional lens. It also establishes groundwork for broadening the study of ancient medicine to include...

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Reviewed by: Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Ellis, Kat Harrow Lake. Dial, 2020 [304p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781984814531 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781984814548 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 7-10 When her father ends up in the hospital, Lola is sent to Harrow Lake, the hometown of her estranged mother and the backdrop for her director father's most infamous horror movie, Nightjar. No one in Harrow Lake is particularly welcoming, and they're all obsessed with the same things: Nightjar, Lola's mom (the star of the movie), and the legend of Mister Jitters, a creature who stalks the town's abandoned mines. There's more here than just some folksy story meant to scare outsiders, though, and Lola's connection to the town might mean a connection to the monster. The book starts as a familiar horror setup, with a fair amount of contrivance landing seventeen-year-old Lola in Harrow Lake, but it soon happily goes off the rails as the town amps up for the annual festival celebrating Nightjar (which culminates with people feasting upon a life-size cake version of Lola's mother), Lola's childhood imaginary friend shows up to warn her about Mister Jitters, and her grandmother becomes increasingly agitated, accusing Lola of being just like her mother, "a rotten, lying little bitch." Ellis deftly keeps the pace moving, leaving little time for questions and sweeping readers along on a thrilling mindbender; the scare factors are executed with just the right amount of flair, indulging in a bit of campiness only to pull back for some true terror. Lola is intriguing as a distrustful, prickly girl who both hates and yearns for her distant father, and she's easy to root for even as her narration becomes unreliable. Some loose plot threads leave the supernatural element a bit muddled, but the ending points towards monsters of the more human type, and their fate is clear and particularly satisfying. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

گل خندان نا قصہ غا تیٹی غیر انسانی کردارآتا جاچ اس

Folktales are stories that grew out of the lives and imaginations of the people, or folk. They have always been children’s favorite type of folk literature. Their popularity springs from their imaginative characters, their supernatural elements, Folktales employ certain characteristics or conventions common to virtually all tales. Brahui literature is rich in folktales. Mr. Afzal Mengal has played very important role in collecting of these folktales. In this article we will discuss the imaginative characters which have been presented in his folktales collection book “Gul E Khindan”. This paper concluded with the kinds of folk characters, especially the animals, the reptiles and pets.

Glitch as the Representation of the Uncanny in Oxenfree (2016)

The Gothic engages its audiences in the constant play by evoking the same anxieties in its audience and its protagonists. Furthermore, it could be argued that transgressions are its immanent feature. The supernatural elements, with the strong emphasis on the ghosts, often create the feeling of the uncanny, which, defined by the mixing of the familiar with unfamiliar, is not unknown to the video game genre. In the paper I offer a close reading of Oxenfree (2016), demonstrating the Gothic elements featured in the game, concentrating on how the uncanny manifests through the use of the audiovisual glitch.

Representações renascentistas e góticas na tragédia moderna

Christopher Marlowe escreveu A História Trágica do Doutor Fausto para o teatro renascentista inglês, utilizando-se de noções próprias da tragédia moderna, além de adicionar elementos sobrenaturais à sua obra. A presença de componentes fantásticos na peça de Marlowe representa aflições da sociedade renascentista, sendo algo capaz de suscitar o medo em seus apreciadores, um sentimento intrínseco ao Gótico.