And in one of Verdi's many dubious tales, at 5 months old he was spirited by his mother to a church tower to avoid Russian troops.
Arar, 34, a computer engineer who was born in Lebanon, says he was spirited by U.S. authorities to Syria in 2002 and underwent repeated torture while held there for nearly a year.
Some even believe that, on doomsday, they will be spirited away by a group of aliens who live under the mountain.
He was afraid they would be spirited away by Tibetan officials in Lhasa, said Gombu Tsering, 70, the museum's caretaker.
He then went on the run, fuelling countless tales in the press as to what had happened to him, from abduction by the mafia to being spirited away by MI6.
Then, inevitably, some catastrophe occurs, and the hero is spirited away, by either a grave bodily injury or being kidnapped by a Buddhist monk.
He was arrested April 9 after flying into the country, but was spirited away by the authorities.
Had one arrived, the first team, hiding in their dormitory, would have been spirited away by some other method.
Hawi, meaning "unable to breathe," was where the child, being spirited away by a servant, required resuscitation and nursing.
A veiled woman wanders this vacant paradise, presumably after everyone else has been spirited away by the apocalypse.
