Stories
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Electric marvels in the age of enlightenment
How our understanding of electricity has grown, from novelty to the pulse of modern life – and the inner fire that powers the human machine.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
Catalogue
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Supernatural entertainments : Victorian spiritualism and the rise of modern media culture / Simone Natale.
Natale, Simone, 1981-Date: [2016]- Books
Supernatural and secular power in early modern England / edited by Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen.
Date: [2015]- Books
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Supernatural revelation the only sure hope of sinners. A sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, Monday January 12. 1741. upon occasion of the anniversary meeting of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge. By Mr. Webster, ...
Webster, Alexander, 1707-1784.Date: 1741- Books
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Supernatural influences necessary to salvation: being a vindication of the fourth proposition of Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian divinity. In answer to Thomas Chubb's treatise, entituled, An examination of Mr. Barclay's principles, with Regard to Man's Natural Ability since the Fall. By Thomas Beaven.
Beaven, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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Supernaturall sights and apparitions seen in London, June 30. 1644. interpreted : With a mathematicall discourse of the now imminent conjunction of Iupiter and Mars, 26 July, 1644. the effects which either here or in some neere countries from thence may be expected. By Will. Lilly. Imprimatur John Booker.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681Date: 1644