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Featured Article: Amulet

Amulet, AM yuh liht, is a charm that is often worn around the neck. See more »

Amulet

Amulet, AM yuh liht, is a charm that is often worn around the neck.

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Bigfoot

Bigfoot is a humanlike creature said to live in the Pacific Northwest.

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Bomoh

Bomoh is a person who provides cures for illness in Malaysian and Indonesian villages.

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Evil eye

Evil eye is the supposed power to harm people or their possessions by merely looking at them.

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Exorcism

Exorcism, EHK sawr sihz uhm, is the act of driving away the Devil or other evil spirits that possess, influence, or control a person.

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Fetish

Fetish, FEE tihsh or FEHT ihsh, is an object that is believed to have magical powers or to embody or contain a powerful spirit.

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Gremlin

Gremlin, GREHM luhn, is a small imaginary creature that some people believe causes mechanical problems in airplanes.

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Magic

Magic is the supposed use of supernatural power by a person to control human actions or natural events.

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Sea serpent

Sea serpent is a large, probably imaginary marine creature.

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Superstition

Superstition is a traditional belief that a certain action or event can cause or foretell an apparently unrelated event.

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Taboo

Taboo is an action, object, person, or place forbidden by law or culture.

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Vampire

Vampire is a corpse that supposedly returns to life at night to suck people's blood.

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Werewolf

Werewolf, according to superstition, is a person who changes into a wolf.

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Will-o'-the-wisp

Will-o'-the-wisp is a ghostly, bluish light sometimes seen over marshes and graveyards.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft is commonly defined as the use of supposed magical powers to influence people and events.

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Yeti

Yeti, YEH tee, also called the Abominable Snowman, is a creature said to live on Mount Everest and other mountains of the Himalaya range of Asia.

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