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relating to magic

he is a student of the occult

She claims that millions of Americans dabble in the occult.
in Thailand occult beliefs are common
The admission costs her historian a pang, but Henrietta, despairing of more occult things, was now paying much attention to the outer life.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
The near-occult feeling: The fact of being witness to the end of the world gives way to tangible things.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The history of shamans and the occult garnered our intense intellectual scrutiny.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in some wonderous way.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Some kind of occult geometry or symbolic festoon of obsessions.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
He did not share Francisco's taste for the occult.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
There was something occult in all this, no doubt; for what is the strength of ropes and of men's arms?
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
His wisdom is not the wisdom of an old man, but rather a knowledge of how to do things, especially occult things.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Seems to be something occult.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Chaldeans had noses like that, too, and they were damn sharp people, and not just when it came to occult sciences.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
She seemed an occult figure, more spirit than human.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
He was the only one who'd followed the Old Man's interest in the occult.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
I mean, it seems so hard to reconcile the Overlords' science with an interest in the occult.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
The admission costs her historian a pang, but Henrietta, despairing of more occult things, was now paying much attention to the outer life.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
I can do this miracle; I shall do this miracle; yet I do not try to conceal from you that it is a miracle to tax the occult powers to the last strain.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I wouldn't precisely call it cozy, but it's certainly not what you'd expect from the country's leading author of horror and occult fiction.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.
Jack London -- White Fang

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