It ascribes the extraordinary occurrences in nature to the influency of invisible beings, and supposes the thunder, the jurricane, and the earthquake, to be the immediate effect of their agency.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again--or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at a good long range!

I am not going into the subject of ampelography or viticulture, yet it is a part of common winelore to know that the kind of vine is the most important element in determining the quality of the wine.

Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12).