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The first installment of this fantasy trilogy imagines a Royal Coven established by Queen Elizabeth I to handle supernormal incidences and preserve witchcraft’s legacy.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
The novelist Robert Stone was a student of paranoia, another sort of supernormal perception.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
In The Haunting of Hill House, a novel of 1959, Shirley Jackson explores the possibility that a disturbed individual can trigger supernormal events.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
“The streets were overflowing with people adoring our great leader, who is driving complex international politics with supernormal political acumen.”
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
Telekinesis.—Used of alleged supernormal movements of objects, not due to any known force.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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