supernormal

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The first installment of this fantasy trilogy imagines a Royal Coven established by Queen Elizabeth I to handle supernormal incidences and preserve witchcraft’s legacy.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2022

In The Haunting of Hill House, a novel of 1959, Shirley Jackson explores the possibility that a disturbed individual can trigger supernormal events.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2020

“The streets were overflowing with people adoring our great leader, who is driving complex international politics with supernormal political acumen.”

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018

"Apocalyptic storylines are undoubtedly gripping—they are a supernormal stimulus for our morbid obsessions."

From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 2018

Those other functions are concerned in some unknown way with the spiritual world; and the indication of their exercise is given by the sporadic occurrence, in the sleeping phase, of supernormal phenomena.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)