Sentence examples for various spirits from inspiring English sources

At the bar, a fashionable young woman debated the relative highs of various spirits.

Various spirits and garnishes can be ordered to craft the drinks.

Many of the groups practice local religions that involve interaction with various spirits and deities of nature.

Among the most-important components of the Luba religion, three important figures constitute the supernatural world: Leza (Supreme God), mikishi or bavidye (various spirits), and bankambo (ancestors).

In general, peyotist doctrine consists of belief in one supreme God (the Great Spirit), who deals with men through various spirits, which include the traditional waterbird or thunderbird spirits that carry prayers to God.

Among the topics divined were sacrifices, campaigns, hunts, the good fortune of the 10-day week or of the night or day, weather, harvests, sickness, childbearing, dreams, settlement building, the issuing of orders, tribute, divine assistance, and prayers to various spirits.

The mask, therefore, most often functions as a means of contact with various spirit powers, thereby protecting against the unknown forces of the universe by prevailing upon their potential beneficence in all matters relative to life.

Grieving Gob picks up some bits and pieces of occult, necromantic knowledge from the aforementioned Urféist, and then trains as a doctor in postbellum New York, where he befriends Will Fie, a fellow student who has also lost his brother, and who is tormented by various spirit beings.

Entering into a trance, these "transformational" shamans let themselves be possessed by various animal spirits and sought the help of these spirits for purposes like healing or exorcism.

He was a personified form of the various forest spirits important to hunters dependent on the forest for their livelihood.

Many have fled.Togo, though tiny, is ethnically and religiously diverse, so Mr Eyadéma has to pretend to be blessed both by the Christian God and by various pagan spirits.