People around the world are asking the same question to each other, "Do ghosts and spirits really haunt houses and locations in our world today?" ... There are many people think ghosts do haunt houses, places, and personal experiences. ... After I did some of the research, I have learned that ghosts and spirits truly can haunt houses, but many experts believe ghosts and spirits only appears when they have some special meaning to them whether it is their death place or an old place they used to live in. ... The claims are worthy of being believed in ghosts and spirits because many people have f...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. Things such as Esteban's sexual need, the number of people kept in the book, the genealogical order and how Clara's innocent appearance continues and...

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The House of the Spirits Although throughout most of his time in the novel "The House of the Spirits", written by Isabel Allende, Esteban Trueba acts as selfish person who for the most part has no respect for people's lives. ...

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Sherri Higgins is a researcher on ghosts and spirits. ... The house was built in the 1790's. One ghost was seen when a guest of the house was walking to breakfast and asked the house owner's if the "other guest" was coming down to eat. ... The story goes that Sara Winchester, the wife of the inventor of Winchester guns, had to build a house big enough to house every person killed by this gun. The house had stairs and doorways that led to no where. ...

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On the journey home, the men sing the song of the paddle to protect them from the forest's spirits. ... The palms (like the arms of the human) are used in the construction of houses and the core (inner flesh) provides more than 90% of the Asmat diet. ... There is pressure for the men to drive the spirits from the village during their final dance. ... Furthermore in 1963 they burned festival houses and other significant cultural and religious items and dancing and drumming were forbidden. ... Their trees are cut down with chainsaws and as the trees fall, so fall the tree spirits. ...

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As each person who was prosecuted of witchery, the girls defended themselves by testifying that they (the one accused) would come into each of the girl's rooms at night and send spirits from the devil to touch them at night. ... On the first day, Abigail mentioned Elizabeth Proctor as having unusual things in her house such as, "poppets." ... Elizabeth goes with the police in the precaution that she might be convicted with the findings of the poppet in the house. ... Then, Abigail decides to make it seem as if Mary Warren talks to the devil by putting spirits on Abigail. ... Mary Warren u...

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I want my family and friends to learn and understand that nobody should have the power to bring their spirits down by making them feel like they are worthless, like my half-sister did to me. ... She became extremely depressed, and felt she could no longer remain in her house. ... I also took it upon myself to start looking for a new house for her to move to. It just so happened that the house across the street from me was for rent, so I called the owner of the house and obtained all of the information for her. They ended up moving in, and needed someone to help them move and transport their ...

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In both films the setting takes place in a large, dark, gloomy, and secluded house that gives the viewers a sense of foreboding and mystery. ... We are not quite sure whether we should fear these new tenants or the dead spirits. ... Typical to horror film genre on injustice has been committed causing the unrest of dead spirits. ...

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Through out this act Abby continues to tell her uncle how there were not conjuring spirits in the woods they were simply dancing. ... Also in Act 1 Parris is questioning Abby about why she was dismissed from the proctors house (I think he knows about the affair at this point) and Abigail explains that Elizabeth hates her and is a liar but I think this is all a front to get her uncle to believe the lies she is telling him. ... In Act three in the courtrooms at every point when things are going wrong for her she turns to the spirits. ... I cannot sleep for dreaming"'"; I cannot dream but...

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The women were in charge of the land, house and they would also weave baskets. ... Kachinas are powerful spirits to the native Hopi's and other Native Americans that are called upon to bring rain and help crops grow. ... Kachina dolls were carved out of wood by the Zuni and the Hopi and were detailed to the point that they were clothed in masks and costumes to mirror the adult men who dressed up as Kachina spirits. ...

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The spirits told the Zuni to find the "idiwana or the middle place" (Terry, 2002), so they could build their village. ... They took this as a message from the spirits and started to build their village (Bonvillain, 1995, pp.14). The Zuni people worship spirits called the Raw People. ... Membership for this cult is hereditary in the matrilineal family residing in the house (Terry, 2002). ... Kachinas are spirits, there are many spirits, like spirits of the dead, spirits of animals, and spirits of the stars to name a few (Terry, 2002). ...

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The Cloud Street library is not seen as part of the house, everyone, except Fish, neglects it. It took the love between Rose and Quick as well as the birth of Wax Harry in the library to exorcise the spirits of the Aboriginal girl and the White woman and make the library inhabitable again. ... She did not feel right being in the house and she "wasn't the type to argue with a living, breathing house". Oriel does not move back into the house until the end of the book when she packs up the tent with the help of Dolly, only when Fish is complete does she feels that she can move back into ...

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The gothic genre is a type of movie and novel that includes lots of darkness, haunting, evil spirits, death, and other scary factors. ... The movie also lacked audio effects such as eerie melodic music and howling wind or spirits that other gothic genre movies have. ... The movie did include some elements of the gothic genre, such as a haunted house, mass murders, darkness, black cats, women in distress, and undead beings. Also, there was a repeating occurrence of a black cat and a young boy that appeared before each killing in the haunted house. ...

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"Solomon had never let Livvie go any farther than the chicken house and the well. (515). ... The bottle trees were suppose to keep evil spirits Watt 3 way. In this case the bottle trees were supposed to protect Livvie from the evil spirits. ... Now I lay eyes on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). ...

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Therefore, why would she have commanded one of her evil spirits to kill some horses and cows? ... Say of Molmesworth to steal victuals for him out of her master's house" (pg.308). ... Finally, if he had two spirits to do whatever mischief he desired, then why did he not use them for his benefit? ... Secondly, there were always two spirits given to the people. ... These spirits were said to have been used to perform mischievous deeds as well as to have sucked from the person's body. ...

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The house is personified in the novel and is very much apart of the family. ... The house is alive and Fish hears it talking. Also the spirits that haunt the library give the house a numinous feel. Later the evil spirits are dispelled when Quick and Rose cut a hole in the library. In the end the house's " door stood open, pressed back by the breeze they made in passing, the doors remained open almost as if welcoming "the little boxy woman and the big blowsy woman- Tim Winton's Cloudstreet tells us, families though not always loving and supporting, will be there in times of need. ...

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The Omaha Indians believe that all things were in the mind of Wakonda, all creatures, including man, were spirits. ... In the Omaha Indians myth of Wakonda all things are in the mind of Wakonda, and all creatures, including man, were spirits. ... The spirits searched for a place to become bodily existent. ... The spirits became flesh and blood and expressed their joy and gratitude to Wakonda, maker of all things. ... The shell, Rumia, which he opened first, became his house and the dome of the gods" sky. ...

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Although Mark never openly states his feelings toward beliefs in spirits he seems apprehensive. ... Mark travels with his "Uncle" to stay with Moriyama's house and while this goes against an elder to protect a Japanese women who works in the house. ...

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He gave some to the mother infomation on how to get rid of the spirits in the house at his stage the mom started to become a lil more open minded. ... He finally becomes a true beliver when he starts to really find out what happened to that girl that he sees in hs visions, so he rips apart the house to try to end whatsgoing on with him. ...

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Aborigines were never anything more than slaves to Australians "Most European households employed at least a gardener and a house-girl". Once war broke out many Australians believed that the aborigines would turn against them, due to the fact that Aborigines were greatly mistreated by Australians " He"ll guide the Japs through the bush in exchange for grog and tobacco it's the black with a chip on his shoulder- Before the war Mitsy and Hart had a strange sort of relationship, they would fight and have their times where they would not talk "I knew only that I had lost Mitsy's frien...

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When that failed to boost the people's spirits a prison party was held to celebrate of Flint's new jail. ... Money that was thrown away on trying to keep spirits high could have been used to create jobs or invest in some type of program that would help the citizens of Flint. ... Despite the efforts to maintain high spirits in Flint, whether they were naive or in denial, the citizens could not ignore the continuing deterioration of their city. ... Those upper class citizens who made such ignorant comments obviously were in no fear of losing their job or house, unlike many others. ...

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The idea of having to call upon the "spirits" and gods, the most divine of beings also can be interpreted to suggest multiple meanings. ... In this line, Lady Macbeth uses the word "spirits" to represent the substance of her evilness that she wishes to pass on to Macbeth. ... This is achieved through the importance of the word "spirits", a representation of ones body and soul. The fact that Lady Macbeth is willing to sacrifice her "spirits" reflects on the extreme levels of her will and hunger. ... (1.5.71-72), basically ordering Macbeth to murder him in their own house. ...

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Another important part of a woman's life was her house. Women were responsible for keeping the household shrine as well as the rest of the house clean. ... The woman's destiny was to be married and take care of her house. ... After the birth, the father had to fast and stay with his wife and newborn child to frighten away evil spirits. ...

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For example, when a spouse dies and the children have all moved from the house, the older person can sometimes feel as if they have nothing to live for. ... I'm, not saying that they cure these people, rather they lift their spirits and help heal them emotionally. ... He's always a happy dog that always seems to be able to lift my spirits. ...

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Building strong personal alliances, mending bruised spirits, and taking unfamiliar people by surprise are just a few of the benefits of kindness. ... I went over to her house: listened as she vented her frustrations, and reassured her all would be well. ... Kindness can build strong personal alliances, mend bruised spirits, and take people by surprise....

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