Sentence examples for wicked spirits from inspiring English sources

"White" shamans, for example, apply to a benevolent deity and the good spirits, while "black" shamans call on a wicked deity and the wicked spirits.

The northeast wind skimmed the waves along the beach like pinwheel blades, the giant wind turbine above the harbor rotated, the para-surfers' chutes twisted this way and that, the ropes on the masts of the catamarans in drydock beside the dunes snaked back and forth and banged their metal parts on the hollow aluminum with a racket that could frighten off wicked spirits.

Because at midnight, Kintie, for that was the old woman's name, sat together with wicked spirits and plotted to murder people she hated.

On the first day of his flight Gonsales encounters "illusions of 'Devils and Wicked Spirits in the shape of men and women, some of whom he is able to converse with.

In 1604, the year following James's accession to the English throne, a new witchcraft law was enacted, "An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits", imposing the death penalty for causing harm by the use of magic or the exhumation of corpses for magical purposes.

Gino's mission is to blow a doped-up gangster off the face of this material realm and into the Third Bardo, and in doing so help those who are suffering under the malign force of this wicked spirit.

And luckily, the series has a wicked spirit coursing beneath its amiable do-good surface, with enough bite to entice viewers and maybe even to bring NBC back from the brink.

It was Mrs Pusey who inflicted the Old Testament judgment: "Mary has been whipped four times today, and tied to the bed post all day, and seems as proud as the wicked spirit could wish... .. However deeply rooted in personal conviction, the Tracts were also part of a battle within the early Victorian church between evangelicals and high-church clerics.

Fox wrote, "there was now a wicked spirit risen amongst Friends".

Her fame soon got to the land of the spirits and the most wicked spirit of them all, Tongo, heard about her and said he was going to marry her.

Its deviations in terms of content and writing are intriguing in terms of adaptation, as it manages to capture the wicked spirit of the books while making departures that expand on the canon.