psychopomps

It's about onieromancy, and psychopomps and the last dream between life and death, and in-between people and places.

Well, that was unexpected Kat Howard 2009

It's about onieromancy, and psychopomps and the last dream between life and death, and in-between people and places.

Archive 2009-10-01 Kat Howard 2009

Angels, Valkyries, certain birds (such as vultures) and animals (such as dogs) could also act as psychopomps.

Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009

The ghouls, which are also changelings, are psychopomps.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003

Like phagocytes in the bloodstream of the living, they are not just psychopomps, protectors of souls during the transition voyage, but scavengers, seeking out and returning souls who have crossed that boundary in the wrong direction and who do not belong on the east bank of the living, no matter how terrible the imperative of the torment that has brought them back there.

A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

In their character of cows, also, the clouds were regarded as psychopomps; and hence it is still a popular superstition that a cow breaking into the yard foretokens a death in the family.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

Things as simple as the sounds of whippoorwills build a nameless dread, as their role as psychopomps is revealed, and through the entire production, sound alone builds a convincing world under assault by forces it can't understand.

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

I did learn that, as in opera, tenors are good, baritones are psychopomps, basses are evil.

Mania News Feed 2009