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…could scarcely explain; but said it did not sound like an audible human voice; but rather as if the tones were whispered or impressed inside his ear. When Home awoke…

…of them didn’t.Which ties in extraordinarily well with the modern alien abduction phenomenon. You’ve got your bog-standard abductees. Then you’ve got your star-children, who are in every biological sense human…

…humans – and to some extent every living creature – contained tiny bright specks of the actual substance of God, the entire point of their religion being to render themselves…

…There are tales from the Gettysburg battlefield (many from soon after the battle) about human-shaped, luminous apparitions. It has been suggested that these were the methane of decomposition rising from…

…it. Never has eating human flesh been made to seem so civilised. Think Hannibal Lecter in tails and a top hat: ‘There exist, so they said, certain human beings who…

…of the mother and the ‘cheekiness’ (an entirely inadequate word) of the boy are archetypal. They call parts of the human condition to mind in the same way that when…

…simply a ghost. They may have been given ‘demonic’ ability to function as a spirit much in the same way a poltergeist – a human spirit given demonic powers –…

…should be taken of the skeleton recently disinterred at Leixlip. This extraordinary monument of gigantic human stature was found by two laborers in Leixlip churchyard on Friday, the 10th [?difficult…

…of an ancient Cornish prophecy, that no human power should ever succeed in overturning the Loggan Stone. No sooner was the prediction communicated to him, than he conceived a mischievous…

As those who favour the death penalty have found, killing a human being is surprisingly difficult. How much more difficult if you have a hundred, or a thousand or a…

…ant sees another ant. It sees a bird. It sees a fox or dog. But does it really see the human bearing towards its nest, something many times bigger than…

…ambiguity in the mouth: at least to the historian. For example, the animals at Hierakonpolis were buried, about five thousand years ago, alongside humans presumably to follow them into the…

…if he had, in failure is found the only matter of cavil. Had he assumed an elaborate female attire as a sacrifice to save a country, the heart of which…

…crossed the girl with a sword. It was like the sacrifice of Abraham performed by sensuous schoolchildren [!wth!]. The King placed a dagger between her breasts, kissed her body intensely…

…that with our daily offering of a fish brought from the market and fried for her like a burnt sacrifice. Basta had a most unearthly voice, and when she was…