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Sentence Examples Those shades are sometimes nothing less than the ghosts of dead men and women, as collected here. The girl who lapsed into a fit, repeatedly called on a woman by name to come and appease the ghosts she said were strangling her. I didn't have to believe in ghosts, because there was no proof that they existed. Susan was terrified, she'd bellow songs to scare away ghosts before she ventured into a dark room. In previous experiments probing stress relaxation, red cells or resealed ghosts were aspirated into micropipettes. Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures. They also believe the spirits of the dead become ghosts that may haunt their families and animals, make them sick, or even kill them. Philip Franks's production is set on a deserted seaside pier haunted by the ghosts of circus clowns. Along the rocky paths Buddhist monks appear like ghosts and vanish mysteriously into the trees. The DC ordered the immediate arrest of the woman who vehemently denied keeping ghosts or bewitching the girl. The English version features bog-standard booming demons and echo-treated ghosts. After explaining that the house has a few ghosts, Violet gives Caroline a skeleton key that opens every door. I'm fascinated by the way that modern-day culture resonates with the whispers, sighs and echoes of ghosts. She successfully destroyed two dozen hostile ghosts with ultrasonic sound waves and laser grids. I believe in ghosts, and I get freaked out if there's a squeaky noise in house when I'm alone and all that. Spiteful witches, hungry ghosts, and angry spirits are thought to inflict illness and misfortune. His viewpoint can be illustrated by myths such as those of ancient Egypt, where the living believe that ghosts live the same lives as themselves. Supernatural creatures such as angels, genies, ghosts, and spirits, are believed to exist. They are often compared to ghosts, demons and spirits and are attributed appropriate powers. In this, we have taken a step closer towards a naturalistic world-view that is able to dispense with spirits, ghosts and gods. Show More Sentences Sum Sae-Ng, 47, the leader, told officers that the cult worshipped ghosts and land spirits. And I believed her when she spoke of magic, ghosts, spirits, and fairies that danced in the rain. The Japanese culture and arts have been strongly influenced by a wide-spread belief in ghosts, demons and supernatural spirits. Last week it was revealed that more people than in the 1950s now believe in ghosts. He prevails upon a fey young Australian girl, haunted by ghosts of the past, to drive him across the outback so he can claim the car. The lintel twists with numerals, the four walls buckling with crookbacked joists until ghosts hang homeless in the lurching levels. It is a land of ghosts and creepy discarded toys, if you're brave enough to look. It's a new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. Must we explain ghosts, poltergeists, reincarnation, and the healing power of crystals? This covers all manner of weirdness from frog falls, ghosts and poltergeists, levitation, UFOs, lost civilisations and displaced animals. Roll and Hamilton-Parker do not believe that poltergeists are ghosts or conscious entities. But those who do believe in the ghosts agree that the theater is not haunted by a poltergeist or mean spirit. Whatever ghosts and poltergeists may be, it is increasingly apparent that they are facets of the same phenomenon. We can only conjure up the ghosts of the past through our fragmented memories. It felt institutional and antiseptic and I kept sensing ghosts and shadows. One psychologist thinks that the odd sensations that people attribute to ghosts may be caused by infrasonic vibrations. Their imaginations are dominated by the ghosts of the past, in intimate communion with the shimmering world of the dead. I argued earlier that ghosts to a certain extent spell out incommensurable cultural differences. The ghosts are terrifyingly mean and fantastically cool by monster standards. This time out, the author collects some chilling accounts of coal mine ghosts, phantoms. Show More Sentences Their immunity from getting tricked of course was simply to put on a costume that would fool the ghosts away. The book is full of local flavour and includes stories of ghosts, witchcraft and mermaids, close encounters, poltergeists and alien big cats. It proposes a numberless succession of sons passively tormented by their fathers' ghosts. However, it is Ejiofor's film as he swaggers around in heels or confronts the ghosts of the past with equal aplomb. I do not believe in tarot cards, nor the I Ching, nor astrology, nor palmistry, nor ghosts. He picked up the pace of his horse, glanced around once more, making sure that only ghosts and not Federal soldiers surrounded him. What we saw were clearly ghosts from the static image we'd left on the screen. Certainly he is the guardian of ghosts, the lord of black ink, the prince of parchment and a summoner of souls. This book covers parapsychology, out-of-body experiences, ghosts, near-death experiences, UFOs, creationism, and astrology. Are Hansons' ghosts likely to give Howard another helping hand come the 2004 election? Players will encounter hellhounds, werewolves, vampires, hobbits, ghosts, barbarians and demigorgons. He then asked curiously why they always ended up having to go look for the ghosts and get chased while the other characters sat on their heinies. Tales of ghosts and spirits have been passed orally from generation to generation. Is it magic, ghosts, or a weird adhesive concocted from ancient wallpaper paste, tobacco smoke and grime? With rumors of hauntings and ghosts, Kingdom Hospital has a ghastly standing in the community. Kneale's thesis is that hauntings and ghosts are particularly intense phenomena that are literally recorded by matter, by the stone of the room. The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls. Let's meet our panel as we get into our discussion of the paranormal and the possibility of ghosts and haunted houses. Establishing that the terrain is haunted with ghosts from the past is an effective strategy for the eventual release of the spirits. This was a place of horror and hysteria, supposedly haunted by ghosts and witches. Show More Sentences But its dreamscape reminds me as much of Cocteau's ancient figures marooned in modernity, speaking like ghosts or halfrealized human beings. The auras of time, spirits, and even ghosts filled him, and his mind felt light and airy, as if in a dream. Sixth Avenue also had its parade of refugees, some of them covered head to foot with white dust, strange walking ghosts among the living. Some of these places include uninhabited sites, places where an array of spirit beings including jinn and ghosts are believed to reside. Four bored ghosts duplicitously call on our heroic paranormal exterminators to brush up on their scare tactics and have a little fun. The idea of an expanding U.S. commitment, however, is precisely what raises the specter of quagmire for critics, raising ghosts of Vietnam. These equations always seem to be out of whack, but it takes time to withdraw from the hungry ghosts within and give more to the right people. The Myrtles is now a bed and breakfast, so guests can stay in these rooms and see if the ghosts come out and play. A biting wind blew furiously, whistling against the peak and making the clouds swirl about like ghosts. Many folk beliefs involve methods for keeping ghosts, or duppies, from returning to haunt living people. Zhong Kui not only attacked evils but also caught ghosts and monsters of all kinds by performing white magic. The bell let out an ear-shattering, death-defying ring that sent out ghosts and wights and phantoms and other eerie, unfriendly shadowlings. In the nineteenth century, people thought ghosts came into a house through its keyholes, and these covers were designed to keep them out. I prefer the magic of ghosts I think, they at least hold out the promise of the escape from embodiment and hitting the singularity. She isn't locked into the past either, where she's haunted by ghosts of ex-lovers who did her wrong. Precious few ghosts survive from that which passes for medieval Berlin, and even those from Neoclassical Berlin are much diminished. Across the valley the mute, cloud-shrouded buttresses of Johannesburg Mountain wait like ghosts. The deadly force started knocking people off after the liner smashed into another vessel, apparently haunted by nasty ghosts. And what does it mean for a community, a people to be allegorized as ghosts? Thus all of the cultures of the world have stories of unknown beings such as ghosts, goblins, and alien life. Show More Sentences Home to a wacky wizard, it's a gothic mansion packed to the rafters with mischievous goblins and no-good ghosts. Valentukevicius, however, wants to lay the ghosts of the war to rest forever. Having eaten and rested it was time once again to lay the ghosts to rest and pay respects to the many Germans who had fallen in the desert. Laotian children may fear ghosts, but, growing up among Buddhist principles and culture, they don't even flinch at the sight of a mummy. So the last thing the manager needs looming large are encounters with ghosts of seasons past. And even though nowhere in Buddhist scripture is there any mention of any kind of ghosts or animism, a strong belief in magic still remains. Such are the dangers at a time when ghosts and goblins are not the only things scaring American voters. The landlord claims the pub, which dates back to 1706, is haunted by two ghosts. She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants. Sarah Monette is writing her doctoral thesis on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. There is a palpable sense of the ghosts of ancient wars looking down grimly on a humbled leviathan. Her studies focused on paranormal topics, such as auras, levitation and ghosts. I wanted to show people that Halloween can be a lot more than simply ghosts and goblins. In other words, they practise seances and use the occult to bamboozle people into believing in ghosts. Last month, the little white statues began turning up everywhere, like ghosts haunting the places where the kids had been. Other housemates evoke the ghosts of yesterday's popular culture, as the has-beens who populate reality TV tend to do. Britain seems unable to escape the ghosts of Victorian engineers and Victorian novelists who so gloomily overshadow our own productions. Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic. Further similar experiences follow and Tom realises that he now has the ability to see ghosts and predict the future. And while the ghosts, like the original, have spookiness and atmosphere to spare, they have nothing else. Show More Sentences They'd rescued over thirty cursed items between them, battling voodoo loas, Druids, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts in the process. The narrative is filled with ghosts, vaults, giants, living statues, mysterious appearances, and violent emotions of terror, anguish, and love. Many couples that park their cars near the graveyard to make out find themselves at the mercy of these ghoulish ghosts. Staff at a number of bars and hotels dressed for the occasion and ghosts, ghouls and goblins traipsed through the streets and shadows. Everything about this place suggested that it was not a place for the living, only the ghosts of the dead who had once lived there. The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater. Rumpology works the same way as astrology, cartomancy, metoposcopy, palmistry, and getting messages from ghosts. Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts. I admit I am a bit apprehensive, but I am not sure if I believe in ghosts, although the other girls are quite scared. The books are filled with talking dogs, angels, spirits, ghosts, demons and death. The castle itself was haunted, and not just be family ghosts like the Manor, but by terrifying blood drenched spectres, ghouls and a poltergeist. Characters somnambulistically move in and out of frames, ghosts of feeling and thinking human beings. Out of those of you who believe in ghosts, do any of you think you've ever seen a ghost? These ghosts are a breed apart from the usual homeless types who inhabit such dwellings. Anything having to do with ghosts, curses, eerie phenomena, and unexplained events in ballparks or associated with baseball teams is welcome. A parade of entities was reportedly observed by the medium at the 1978 seance, and she deduced that there were 17 ghosts occupying the inn. Several more ghosts materialized from the shadows and surrounded him, forming a tight circle of burning blue. There must be strange entities materializing from the ether, ghouls, ghosts, or spirits hanging out in the material world to warn or haunt us. The plotline is relatively thin, relying on the quantity of ghosts and potential gruesome deaths to keep the story going until its climatic end. Too often in the wider sphere they act like troubled ghosts of their true selves. Show More Sentences Just a few days ago, I sat down with a woman who is a medium, and we got to talking about spirits and ghosts. Reading this, you might not consider yourself spiritual, but you might believe in ghosts. Besides purification, the tilak also offers the wearer protection from ghosts, evil influences, bad dreams, accidents and many other things. For a Tony Blair tormented by the unquiet ghosts of the conflict, this threatens to be a war without end. During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures. The sensitives believed themselves capable of sensing ghosts, and that is what they attempted to do. People imagined that the ghosts or spirits of the dead were to be encountered in the fields, the boreens and graveyards, once darkness falls. Perhaps my scepticism closes my mind to the possibility of ghosts and that's why I am among the 20 per cent of the population who cannot use divining rods. They looked like ghosts with the wind whipping around their abayas. For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts. For whatever reason, summertime in New York is when all the ghosts of hip-hop past come out of the woodwork. They all convene at the Weston family home, and over the next several days, a series of ghosts come out of the closet. At Suurbraak, elderly descendants of the Khoikhoi will today regale for hours on end about men of great strength, ghosts and water spirits living in the river. Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried. This, from a country that lives with its own ghosts of dispossession and displacement. It took visits from the ghosts of Christmas for scrooge to embrace generosity. Thanks to lenticular lenses, the figures disappeared like ghosts when the photographs were viewed from certain angles, suggesting the mutability of memory. Our only feeling on that is that there are proven psycho-magnetic ley lines which criss-cross the country, and it is suggested that ghosts can use these as we use roads. So, basically, I spent every Saturday for about a year in the NY library researching ghosts, apparitions, synchronicity, paranormal and parapsychology. We have just passed through the witching hour that is Hallowe'en, relic of a medieval past when ghosts and spirits were thought to stalk the land on All Hallow's Eve. Show More Sentences If your opponent has already captured three of your yellow ghosts then he's in a bit of trouble as any capture he makes runs the risk of losing him the game. Yet most people outside that little circle still believe in witches and ghosts and goblins, and are very pagan-minded. It was weird, but not as weird as the goblins, ghosts, and other stock fiction figures mixing with the masses on the street. Romance can be found in a quiet spot in Rome, and in searching for ghosts in the Hampstead streets. Often an account of the supernatural folklore of a region is no more than a list of ghosts supposed to haunt the area, followed by a tellable tale or two. Rather than being an introduction to ghosts and spoon benders, it turned out to be a lesson for me in the value of testing ideas and critical thinking. A common manifestation of witchcraft attacks are witch familiars such as ghosts, demons, evil spirits and tokoloshes disturbing a house or attacking individuals. I don't believe in ghosts or God, Father Christmas or the tooth fairy. There are authors and ghosts, obsessive compulsives and shedloads of kids. Only it turns out some of those ghosts are powerful ancestor spirits. Likewise, her personal experiences of ghosts, spirits and fairies tell something about Berit Anne as an individual and the role her stories play in her understanding of life. This can be seen through the ages, from ancient folklore and myths such as vampires and ghosts, which still have great power even in modern, scientific times. Also I was told that wizards keep ghosts for their nefarious activities. The budding writers touched upon a wide spectrum of issues ranging from suspense, fantasy, ghosts, sporting rivalry to philosophy and science fiction. I am referring to the reports of miracles, faith healers, visitations by angelic or demonic beings, ghosts or goblins, or contact with dearly departed friends and relatives. I leaned against the damp stone of the buttress, tilting my head to follow the line of the sheer wall up to where the ghosts of clouds raced before the moon. At the end, these paintings-within-paintings float in mute isolation, like the ancestral ghosts of industry's first captains, or of art's old masters. He collected accounts of frogs and other strange objects raining from the sky, UFOs, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, the stigmata, psychic abilities, etc. In my younger days I was haunted by the ghosts of piglets, and the memory of those phantom piglets snuffling at my feet remains a source of trauma for me even today. In his childhood Martin was afraid of the dark, of ghosts and hobgoblins, and his fear of attack by the threatening unknown later came to surface in his art. Show More Sentences Four fearless women are preparing to spend the night in the company of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms to raise money for the Abbeyfield care home where they work. The artists responsible for the works and for dimming lights, Stanikas, conjure up the ghosts of Lithuanian and Soviet past and of the difficult transition. In the opening episode, Fred Mumford returns from the spirit world and opens the agency Rentaghost, which offers ghosts and poltergeists for hire on a daily or weekly rental. There were no reports of supernatural sounds, translucent ghosts, or mischievous poltergeists, let alone greenskinned reptoids in an undergraduate girls dorm! She must face the ghosts of her past, swallow her pride, and compete with a handful of less talented dancers for the opportunity to be just another pair of legs in the crowd. The book is full of ghosts for whom the poet feels duty-bound to speak, and for the most part his theme is what the ghosts long for, the lovely body of earth. But in our sleep there are ghosts of dead friends and relatives. I don't really believe in ghosts, or spirits or anything of that nature. Rumours of ghosts and strange apparitions in Windhouse are widespread. So far I have been assuming an understanding of ghosts and ghostliness, blithely employing these terms as if they were commonly understood, let alone accepted. The people dress up as ghouls, ghosts, mummies and skeletons. During the commercial, they showed ghosts and ghouls jump out of cornfields and scare the children that are being pulled around the haunted site by a tractor. Above them streamed a procession of ghosts, one of whom had trailed a foot through Draco's shoulder on the way past, as many as twenty or twenty-five of them. This being occult worship, they propitiate ghosts as part of their ritual. One by one the ghosts are released, all thirsting for some blood and gore. We avert our collective eyes as we pass by the gentlemen and ladies of the road and each time we do it we create ghosts to people the shadows of our world. Imagine double-dating with the ghosts of relationships past. In it are splendid Spanish Baroque buildings, some fading like the ghosts of grand dowagers, others newly primped models of the famed restoration of La Habana Vieja. The most deadly of all ghosts are wandering over Britain and medicine, apartheiding people into superiors and nonentities. To resist the surrender to and enmeshments of such, the speaker invites visitations of the ghosts of his progenitors. Show More Sentences Even more terrifying than ghosts for our clueless hero is the occasional loss of Wi-fi signal and any perceived threat to his hair or man-bag. In this novel, Valera addresses the themes of sin and repentance as well as the ghosts of the past. I call it the Scrooge syndrome where the ghosts of your past are most unwelcomely visited upon you. Last week's unfortunate shoppers were subjected to the aural torture of bad cover versions of the ghosts of Christmases past. You can believe in ghosts if you like, but I'm still a skeptic. The Frighteners has a ghosthunter, Frank, working with a trio of ghosts who infest premises that he then clears. In addition to werewolves, fairies, witches and vampires, players can expect to see many more ghosts amidst the supernaturals in their town. On that canvas sat the Yiddish-speaking alte cockers, the family tummlers, the smarty-pants cousins, all real then, all ghosts now. There are frequent tales and claimed sightings of ghosts, phantoms and other supernatural phenomena. Gather ghosts, goblins, family, friends and the kids in costumes for a spooktacular Halloween party this weekend. Hallucinate or think they sense ghosts, according to research from the University of Durham. Now, just a few years later, the ghosts are stocking the cabinet. I compare the author's main claims concerning ghosts and spirits with a variety of passages from the Mohist corpus and other relevant texts. I was scared stiff of deads and duppies and ghosts and the departed and I couldn't sleep at nights for fear of not waking up in the morning. I saw cassette tapes and pulled the ribbon out and thought about what ghosts could be hiding in the machine. Staffers who have slept in the bunkroom overnight during heavy snows insist they have heard the ghosts clattering in the night. By night, he hunts with ghosts with goggles and a K2 device. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house, when they talked of ghosts! The park is frequently associated with ghosts, particularly related to smugglers, with several tales of sightings around the park. Phillips has that elusiveness where he ghosts in and defenders look round and don't know where he is. Show More Sentences There are ghosts that may flutter above the stage at the Met. The pub has stood inside Caernarfon's Town Walls since the 16th century, and many people claim to have seen ghosts within the building. How the property's ghosts must shudder as dropped aitches and malapropisms crash to glass floors. This is also the case for some racing games that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance. As a reward for his blithesomeness, he was destined to be blown around the ether, miserable for 49 days and pursued by hungry ghosts. Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain where people wore costumes and lit bonfires to ward off roaming ghosts. Some of the younger gums and sheoaks, the small heath trees and banksias, browned and gave up their ghosts and stood there. Anancy the trickster spider figured in these stories, as did ghosts and rolling calves, rum, molasses and sugar. Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate. Others were just larval forms in the sense of Paracelsus, umbratiles, vampires, ghosts. He is as Lucifer would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of soulless, Tomlinsonian ghosts. White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan. The game's rolling demo flickered in front of her and she felt herself being drawn into the ghosts that it held in that LCD screen. In fictional television programming, ghosts have been explored in series such as Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, and Medium. The 1970s saw screen depictions of ghosts diverge into distinct genres of the romantic and horror. One of the key early appearances by ghosts was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole in 1764, considered to be the first gothic novel. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, leaving students and ghosts petrified by an unleashed monster. In English Renaissance theater, ghosts were often depicted in the garb of the living and even in armor, as with the ghost of Hamlet's father. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures around the world, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. A 2005 Gallup poll found that about 32 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. Show More Sentences Mexican literature and films include many stories of ghosts interacting with the living. On this day, ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. The ghosts take many forms, depending on how the person died, and are often harmful. Above all things, I liked to hear about horseless carriages and self-powered mechanicals, but I'd settle for ghosts at a pinch. In many Polynesian legends, ghosts were often actively involved in the affairs of the living. There was widespread belief in ghosts in Polynesian culture, some of which persists today. In Buddhism, there are a number of planes of existence into which a person can be reborn, one of which is the realm of hungry ghosts. Ramachandran have recently proposed neurological theories for why people hallucinate ghosts during sleep paralysis. People who experience sleep paralysis often report seeing ghosts during their experiences. These ghosts appeared to the living to ask for prayers to end their suffering. Most ghosts were souls assigned to Purgatory, condemned for a specific period to atone for their transgressions in life. He also showed in his writing some degree of fascination with ghosts and spirits. By the 5th century BC, classical Greek ghosts had become haunting, frightening creatures who could work to either good or evil purposes. In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts. Traditional healing practices ascribed a variety of illnesses to the action of ghosts, while others were caused by gods or demons. If they did not, the ghosts could inflict misfortune and illness on the living. Another widespread belief concerning ghosts is that they are composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. In many cultures malignant, restless ghosts are distinguished from the more benign spirits involved in ancestor worship. Lee Blessing's Fortinbras is a comical sequel to Hamlet in which all the deceased characters come back as ghosts. It was also unusual for ghosts of this period to produce such damaging effects. Show More Sentences A notion of the transcendent, supernatural, or numinous, usually involving entities like ghosts, demons, or deities, is a cultural universal. Descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike visions. But the 90s being the decade of guilty pleasures, it's not uncommon these days to encounter ghosts of proggers past in the least likely places. Other reported ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. The conquistadors found new animal species, but reports confused these with monsters such as giants, dragons, or ghosts. There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes. The area is said to be haunted by various ghosts and is a popular stop for ghost tourists. His struggle to outperform history, to outtalk the determinations of the past, including his own body, is undone by the arrival of the ghosts. Several books including The Ghosts of Knighton Gorges have been published especially covering the ghosts of the manor. Did you make of us, indeed, Figments overspecialized, brutal ghosts Who could have been real Men in a better sense? In addition, chomping super Power Pellets makes PAC-MAN bigger stronger, and faster, giving him a few seconds of imperviousness from those relentless ghosts. Ramis helped write the 1984 movie, in which he stars as Egon Spengler, the brainy, common-sense member of a group of parapsychologists who try to catch ghosts. Now, Parascience, a Wirral-based group, which investigates supernatural goings-on, is planning what it hopes will be the most comprehensive survey ever conducted into ghosts. Homer's ghosts had little interaction with the world of the living. In Scandinavian and Finnish tradition, ghosts appear in corporeal form, and their supernatural nature is given away by behavior rather than appearance. Maybe the family who trick-or-treats together stays together.Little ballerinas, ghosts and superheroes may find it a bit crowded on the trick-or-treat trail this year. One of the more recognizable ghosts in English literature is the shade of Hamlet's murdered father in Shakespeare's The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. His annexation of Crimea and proxy war in eastern Ukraine evoked all the ghosts of the Anschluss and the Sudetenland in the chancelleries of Europe. Existentially ghosts lie between fact and fiction, between the orbits of believer and nonbeliever, and provide bounteous fodder for storytelling, literature, and film. The overwhelming consensus of science is that ghosts do not exist. Show More Sentences The most powerful of all undead creatures, ghasts feed on ghosts, dead souls and, most especially, live ones. They want to take over Iltior and set up a ghast empire. There is extensive and varied belief in ghosts in Mexican culture. The idea of ghosts can be considered a tradition for certain cultures. And ships' games, the songs and shindys, the yarns of murder and ghosts. On the one hand, Fawzi indulges his story with fantastical, Felliniesque quips most evident in the posse of ghosts that never leave Youssef's side. The third theory says ghosts are simply natural phenomenon such as electro magnetic fields or infrasounds that affect our minds and make us see these things. But apart from the story of the havildar, my own syce, a hillman who attends my pony, has actually seen two ghosts, with one of whom he held a long conversation. Other topics include Lycians in the Cares of Aeschylus, ghosts, filicide, ancient philosophers and the fragmented self, and Aristophanes on how to write tragedy. American Horror Story has had its fair share of ghosts, aliens and murderers, but it looks like the cult TV series is adding a hocus pocus element to the upcoming series. Various other television shows have depicted ghosts as well. Examples from Classical Literature She points to phantoms which the Chorus cannot see, the ghosts of the children of Thyestes. It appears to me that these affable familiar ghosts, practically serviceable, had cast the otiose Atahocan into the background. He is seeing ghosts, cried Daniel, he is tangling up the threads of my life. Good thing we don't believe in ghosts, Peter, or we would swear it was a loup-garou smelling us through the wall! We should all be ghosts, of course, but the more easily could the sun warm us through in spite of the tramontana. Terrors and ghosts of unlaid accountants haunt the houses of their children from generation to generation. How gorgeous to belong to a highfaluting family that's got legends and ghosts. Beyond all else, she was interested in the procession of ghosts on Lammas Eve. The last sort of sacrifices to ghosts at saa which we need notice is the sacrifice of first-fruits. They were thematically consistent with the existing Mansion ghosts, more funny than scary, and their faces were familiar. Sky, water, grass scampered like merry ghosts through the carnival of the shopping center. The bola de fuego, or the light of Aguirre, the Tyrant, is one of these ghosts. The spirit of monachism is as distinguishable as if the cowled ghosts of the victims were actually seen flitting along the aisles. A scowling horde of ghosts draws near, and scurries furiously through the wind, bellowing drearily to the stars. Natives of the Bismarck Archipelago are cannibals and greatly fear the ghosts of those they devour. But if Zelda and these other catatonics are teaching ghosts, these ghosts are the dumbest jerks anywhere. The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse. I think kiss-giving and kissable ghosts over thirteen ought not to be allowed. While we sat, evoking the ghosts of the past, our hearts were drawn together. A fear was upon Setne because of Se-Osiris, who answered not, and then he pronounced words that exorcize the ghosts of the dead. Show More Sentences Dim ghosts of men and women, most of them, who loitered at this hour in these streets. Now this is some puzzlin' ter Unc' fletch, an' he hez some more o' them funny feelin's erbout ghosts, an' them things. However, while the ghosts survive they can return from the islands to saa and revisit their village and friends. Bodies of men, and men singly or in twos and threes, wandered like ghosts in Hades. With all its luxuriance of color, with all its violence of light, this tropical day has its ghostliness and its ghosts. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story. Mariel's eyes shifted momentarily to Prex's stoney face, then back to Shandor, ghosts of fear creeping across his face. I was never the victim of fear of goblins and ghosts because I was never taught them. She satirizes human foibles and weaknesses, showing ghosts that gossip and gormandize, simper and swear as they did in life. There can be little doubt that many of the pixy stories, as well as those of ghosts, have their origin in practical jokes. Find more words! 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