Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
spiritine . Not to be confounded with ‘wood-spirit’ or methyl alcohol.
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Examples
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Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay, and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay, and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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Night, with torches and lanterns, and make a great noise with horns, bells, whips, &c., in order to | 342 | frighten away two wood-spirits.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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On the whole, then, as Mannhardt argues, the Pans, Satyrs, and Fauns perhaps belong to a widely diffused class of wood-spirits conceived in goat-form.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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The fondness of goats for straying in woods and nibbling the bark of trees, to which indeed they are most destructive, is an obvious and perhaps sufficient reason why wood-spirits should so often be supposed to take the form of goats.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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Thus, the Russian wood-spirits, called Ljeschie (from ljes, wood), are believed to appear partly in human shape, but with the horns, ears, and legs of goats.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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In order to propitiate the wood-spirits people bring offerings of food, fowls, goats, and so forth to the places which they are supposed to haunt.
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Thus the representation of wood-spirits in the form of goats appears to be both widespread and, to the primitive mind, natural.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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Similarly the Fauns, though wood-spirits, were believed to foster the growth of the crops.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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