Sentence examples for angry spirits from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, red ribbons, offerings of steamed buns and a feng shui master were on hand to ward off angry spirits.

The traditionalists clung to the notion that angry spirits were responsible for natural disasters, and resisted Western science.

Inside the tiny village, straw effigies holding wood replicas of swords, rifles and even a rocket launcher guard flimsy huts against angry spirits.

"Strange Messengers," a relentlessly pounding incantation, conjures up nightmare visions of the slave trade and its consequences in strong, almost calligraphic images of slave auctions and lynchings and the angry spirits of the tyrannized slaughtered who will not be stilled.

Various magical practices developed in the 9th 10th centuries to ward off the consequences of evil spirits, such as the Buddhist recitation of nembutsu (invoking the name of the Buddha Amida) to send off angry spirits to Amida's paradise; the exorcising of spirits by Shugen-dō (mountain ascetic) rites; and the use of in-yo magic, derived from Shintō and Daoism.

Men say that Laco, p69 without Galba's knowledge, considered killing Titus Vinius, either to appease the angry spirits of the soldiers by his punishment or because he believed him privy to Otho's plans, or finally simply because he hated him.

Then, step by symbolic step, he came to terms with the angry spirit of Patti, a Guilty Remnant leader, who killed herself in front of him.

The sharp, strobing moves of Dickson Mbi create the image of some angry spirit being liberated from one of Rodin's monumental bronzes.

"My father was a violent alcoholic and a pedophile," Paula says to her daughter, "in a voice so harsh and strange she sounded like a medium channeling an angry spirit".

Then, as children rejoice when their dear father begins to get better after having for a long time borne sore affliction sent him by some angry spirit, but the gods deliver him from evil, so was Ulysses thankful when he again saw land and trees, and swam on with all his strength that he might once more set foot upon dry ground.

The tale includes the destruction unleashed by his angry spirit (floods, fire, shattered buildings, some of it delivered by a magnificent black-clad thunder god) and the dangerous journey to hell and back by Nichizo, an intrepid acolyte sent to divine how to placate Michizane.