SUPERNATURAL
ADJECTIVES
► GOUSTY desolate, dreary, gloomy; ghastly, supernatural, unearthly → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PRETERNATURAL supernatural → 1696
► SPOOKY eerie and supernatural; frightening → 1854 sl., orig. US
► UNCANNY partaking of a supernatural character; mysterious, weird, uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar → 1843 orig. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BANSHEE a supernatural being, in the form of a woman, who is supposed to wail outside a house to announce the approaching death of a member of the family → 1769 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CAN supernatural power, witchcraft → 1852 Sc. obs.
► GANFER a ghost, apparition; any supernatural phenomenon → 1774 Sc.
► POLYDAEMONISM ► POLYDEMONISM belief in many divinities or supernatural beings → 1699
► SCAR-BUG a supernatural appearance → 1895 Eng. dial.
► SPRIGGAN a supernatural being, typically characterized as small, ugly, and malicious, and often considered to be associated with ancient earthworks and remote places; a malevolent fairy or sprite → 1754 orig. & chiefly Eng. dial.
► VIRTUE a charm; a supernatural quality → 1898 Eng. dial.
► WAFT a wraith; a supernatural appearance of one whose death is imminent → 1891 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► SPRIGHT to be haunted or plagued, as if by a sprite or supernatural being → 1616 obs.
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