Sentence examples for visiting spirits from inspiring English sources

Instead, she recalled, she had to wait until Nov. 2, when families feast with the visiting spirits of their loved ones.

At the Haleiwa Jodo Mission, 66-279A Haleiwa Road, Haleiwa, (808) 637-4382, on the North Shore of Oahu on July 13, celebrants will launch more than 1,000 floating lanterns on the receding tide to show the visiting spirits the way home.

In some homes, children wake in the morning to find cakes and sweets left for them overnight by visiting spirits.

Marigolds festoon the altars and the graves where relatives gather to share a meal and news of the past year with the visiting spirits.

I haven't yet made the trek back down to Gowanus to visit this new set of visiting spirits, but I'm excited to do so.

On Tom Buderwitz's adorably Dickensian set, the likable ensemble launches into a sarcastic retelling of "A Christmas Carol," focusing on questions that have puzzled generations such as why doesn't Marley's ghost (Joe Liss) count himself among the three visiting spirits he announces.

Her crime, punishable by lashes, is for venturing into the daylight without her chador – a flowing veil the visiting spirit also seems to wear.

"Without a doubt, visiting spirit mediums is becoming amazingly popular," said Cathy Cash Spellman, whose novel "Bless the Child," about a spiritually gifted little girl, was made into a film with Kim Basinger that was released over the summer.

The visiting spirit must ask permission to stay by asking the one inside the house, usually the house keeper or family ancestors who have are part of the household.

The BBC visited Spirit on Lake, a housing development in Minneapolis that caters to the elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

In fact, Mormons believe that Christ Himself went to visit Spirit Paradise (D&C 76 73) during the three days after He was crucified and before he was resurrected, in order to organize missionaries to travel to Spirit Prison to convert those who had never had a chance to know of Christ.