Sentence examples for nefarious spirits from inspiring English sources

Today, many people loosely subscribe to the ancient belief that firecrackers scare off nefarious spirits and attract the gods of good luck and fortune.

The eggs came from chickens that had laid for the first time; pysanky, which had the power to ward off nefarious spirits, had to be protected from the evil eye — and, according to the exhibition text, from any wayward thoughts the women might have, "since these too might offset the magic quality of the egg".

He described modern art as a "melancholy dictatorship," said that "the nefarious spirit of modernism has succeeded in penetrating even England.

There is a plot thread — about a couple (Ms. Tisdale and Simon Rex) who adopt children haunted by a nefarious mother-spirit — but forget it.

It will look nefarious.

When Enoch O'Reilly, the main character in my second novel Shall We Gather at the River, is deemed too weird even for the clergy, he recasts himself as a radiovangelist in the small Irish town of Murn, channelling the proselytising spirit of rock'n'roll for his own nefarious ends.

La Rocque's organization, originally a war veterans' movement, prided itself on the martial "spirit of the Cross of Fire," and its spokesmen made nefarious comparisons between "virile" combat soldiers and "decadent" civilian politicians.

It's apparent that the boogieman, bogeyman and (in the U.S. South) boogerman or buggabear is a monster, evil spirit, hobgoblin or chimera racing through our language, used by nefarious alarmists to frighten small children and innocent voters.

Befriending her fellow patient Roy Walker Lee Pacee), a movie stuntman with busted legs and a cracked spirit, Alexandra sits enthralled as Roy relates an epic tale of colorful heroes seeking revenge on the nefarious Governor Odious (Daniel Caltagirone).

"Nothing nefarious.

Hardly a nefarious plot.