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An independent bookshop which specialises in horror, fantasy, folklore and the occult is trying to raise £20,000 to save it from closing.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Almost all exorcists, at the urging of the Vatican, keep their identities secret, their role in battling the occult known only to the other priests in their diocese.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

But a smaller, third group believed that Nazi showmanship was occult wizardry and that they were in on the secret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

The museum sells occult essentials, cursed antiques and movie merchandise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

It either went underground, becoming esoteric or occult, or it was mislaid and would eventually turn up after centuries of lying neglected in some monastery library.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

This is very strikingly shown when the Moon, in its monthly progress among the stars, passes before one of them and occults it.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

The sun, of course, occults planets and stars in exactly the same manner as the moon does, but we cannot see these occultations on account of the blaze of sunlight.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

The movie’s details and themes remain theoretical, a blurred thesis about crime and punishment, about incarceration and isolation, about the occulted oppressions and subjections on which society depends.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2019

Stern and his colleagues chased 2014 MU69 on land and through the air last summer as it occulted, or passed in front of, three background stars.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2017

Extended Data Fig. 2The occulted star spectrum and model.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014

Astronomers discovered the atmosphere in 1988, when Pluto occulted another star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2013

And though the solution to this mystery was, to my young mind, occulted, yet did 1 know where it lay: behind the forbidden door.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This occurs when its orbit passes on the line of sight between the Earth and the star, partially occulting the star -- causing a decrease in its brightness that can be observed and quantified.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

In her blind rage she forgot to cast the occulting veil.

From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt

He was well acquainted with these waters, and he held on stoutly until the occulting light of Maceio showed low over the sea straight ahead.

From The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

And Grantline had recognized the Planetara, and had released his occulting screens surrounding the ore.

From Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings

Perhaps a dark ring of absorptive or occulting matter encircles the nebula in nearly the same plane with the luminous whorls.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd