occultism

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Recent Examples of occultism Mysticism and occultism spread rapidly in the dying days of the Russian empire. Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025 That is to say that occultism is less concerned with faith or facts, but rather with fancy. Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024 But Winthrop wasn’t the only figure in American history to see in occultism the possibility of imagining different ways of being, of human improvement. Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024 The politics of the left and right both had their accompanying musical currents, from the stern worker folksingers of the Italian Communist Party to far-right bands inspired by occultism and the organic rural fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien. Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for occultism
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Noun
  • Contemporary accounts describe Antoine as a pious person, initially committed to Catholicism, then to spiritualism.
    Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
  • By the time Alexander expired, in a fog of lunatic spiritualism, in 1825, his empire was the largest the world had ever known, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the far side of the Pacific Ocean, from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
    James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this wild 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf in a deeply religious Livonian community’s midst.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Rotoscope animation sets the stage for this wild 17th century look at a woman accused of witchcraft whose trial reveals the presence of a werewolf in a deeply religious Livonian community’s midst.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wakanda Forever, the series brings Riri back home to Chicago, where the lines between science and sorcery start to blur.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Generating sophisticated charts or extracting hidden insights was a form of sorcery few dared to question.
    Florian Douetteau, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s Page’s step-by-step guide on how to go about medieval necromancy in a productive, yet safe, manner.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The end of an era Happily for sacrificial bats and young cousins all over Europe, necromancy was waning by the end of the 18th century.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Occultism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultism. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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