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By certain mysterious signs, known only to the family Brahman, it had been decided ten years ago that the soul of our host's elder brother had incarnated in this blood-thirsty vampire-bat.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

And it is haunted by such affrighting shapes, as though my iniquities had incarnated themselves in ugly and repulsive forms.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

Which had incarnated in a simple mortal, to benefit men and destroy the evil spirit in them; 4.

From The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery by Notovitch, Nicolas