How to use "occult" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "occult" in popular movie and book plots

David Norliss, a occult investigator, vanishes from his home in San Francisco, California, leaving behind a series of tapes explaining his absence and recent investigations. - The Norliss Tapes
The story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. - Occultic;Nine
In 1955, NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. - The Rizen
When the landowner refuses to sell the museum along with the rest of his property, JB stabs him, then prepares an occult ritual with a Book of the Dead, and blood samples taken from the displays in the Death Factory. - The Butchers (2014 film)
defeats and killsJ, Kessler, and Annette flee via rowboat to the village of Wulfburg, where Helga is conducting an archeological excavation attempting to find a hidden underground vault containing occult knowledge previously possessed by King Otto After meeting up withSA. - Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
The next day, Ruby's topless body shows occult tattoos as she waters flowers outside and washes Jesse's blood off the pool. - The Neon Demon
They soon become suspicious when they discover the inn has not had a customer since 1978, Felipe has a decades-old photograph of Ana Marie, and the box is carved with occult symbols. - The Damned (2013 film)
At the cathedral, they find an SS occult general summoning zombies. - Zombie Army Trilogy
Soon afterwards, the narrator mails letters to various libraries, universities, and occult practitioners, hoping to secure the desired volumes. - The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story)
The show was criticized for occult themes, and was reported to the Swedish Broadcasting Commission. - Mysteriet på Greveholm: Grevens återkomst
On Halloween night 1966, a priest named Zachary Malius murdered seven fraternity members from Winfield College who had broken into his family's crypt and recreated an occult ritual. - Happy Hell Night
Carstairs apparently wishes his enormous library of occult works cataloged. - Lord of the Worms
Eventually he is invited to look at the file of one Wilfred Larner, who became insane due to his occult researches, particularly the Black Book (Larner's amateur translation of the Cthäat Aquadingen). - The Horror at Oakdeene
Bala searches for Solomon (JD Chakravarthy), who has the supernatural ability to speak with ghosts and is an occult specialist and explains the situation to him. - Zero (2016 film)
When his friend Willie Higgins phones in a complaint of occult activity in the area of his gun store, the police chief sends Garou to investigate. - WolfCop
Judge Dredd encounters Devlin Waugh again, when the vampire is kidnapped by a sect of the Holy Inquisition and taken to Vatican City to be the subject of an occult ritual to resurrect Grud. - Judge Dredd: Grud is Dead
Bender exhumes Calculon's body on live television, and Farnsworth organizes an occult ritual to return Calculon's soul to his body. - Calculon 2.0
While Jingles is skimming through an occult book, Angela escapes her bonds, and stabs him in the mouth, causing him to fall on and crush the doll that was keeping him alive. - Jingles the Clown
The lead investigator, dr Brooke Powell, decides to call occult specialist and television personality Carrigan Burke (revealed, much later, to be Powell's ex). - Poltergeist (2015 film)
Lafayette also spends his time poring over a volume about the history of the occult in the Hudson Valley written byG. - Sailor Twain
Karl warns him off of trying the ritual for a man's obsession with the occult could lead to danger. - Baron Blood (film)
Trapped follows the character of Atticus O'Sullivan, a druid and proprietor of an occult shop he runs in an alternate version of Earth. - Trapped (Hearne novel)
Now with a whole host of deities hunting him, Atticus O'Sullivan, along with his faithful dog Oberon, and initiate Granuaile, decide to leave his Third Eye Books and Herbs occult shop in Tempe and go into hiding, with the help of Coyote, the Navajo trickster god, who asks a favor in return. - Tricked (novel)
O'Sullivan, the last Druid and proprieter of Third Eye Books and Herbs occult shop, comes into contact with many of the supernatural characters of his home city of Tempe, Arizona. - Hounded (novel)
While Zhuge Liuyun is incompetent in occult skills, he insists on labeling himself as Sima Hongye's senior. - Eternity: A Chinese Ghost Story
As such, Gyubid decides to train Chiyoko to become a black witch herself, learning various magic spells whilst facing off against various occult mysteries. - Kuromajo-san ga Toru!!
The Chief's middle child, Osceola, becomes obsessed with ghosts and with occult knowledge she's gleaned from an old book, The Spiritist's Telegraph. - Swamplandia!
Considered the mother to the Succubi, ruler of shadows, slaughterer of children, and consort to the devil himself, she had been re-awakened by, and drawn to the location of, the occult power inherent in the mirror carried by Jacob. - Umbrage (film)
In it, the show's host Lance Preston, along with occult specialist Sasha Parker, surveillance operator Matt White, cameramanC. - Grave Encounters
When he follows the sound of the woman's screams up to a room covered in occult symbols, he discovers that the woman is his dead wife, Helena (Gina Varela). - The Devil's Rock
Assisted by the powerful group known as The Thirteen, who subscribe to an occult form of freemasonry, General Montriveau finds the duchess in a Spanish monastery of Discalced Carmelites under the name of Sister Theresa. - La Duchesse de Langeais
He finds occult imagery on the walls, including the symbol from the girls' room, which had been concealed behind paintings. - Paranormal Activity 3
He speculates about Barbara's deep involvement in the occult with the accusation that she is a witch. - Witch Hunt (1999 film)
This is a story set in the picturesque locales of Manali and Rajasthan and unfolds with unique twists and turns which along with Tashi takes the viewers into a maze where reality and the occult converge into a thrilling and riveting journey of discovering the truth. - Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Naata Koi
Partly at Kallikrates' bidding, Men-Hari wrests the leadership of the Magi away from Za-Tor, and leads the rest of the Magi in a forbidden occult ritual to overpower and destroy Kassim. - The Vengeance of She
The strippers discover the former owner had a collection of occult books and a strange, sealed-off well called the Well of Spirits. - Big Tits Zombie
By using the phone, Maya and Fumiaki investigate occult occurrences. - Occult Academy
The series details the secret history of an occult organization called the Brotherhood of the Shield, with a history extending back to ancient Egypt. - S.H.I.E.L.D. (2010 series)
Using the entranced Doreena to summon the physical manifestation of the hideous fish-faced creature out of the depths of a nearby lake, the tuxedo and top hat-clad Basso commands the savage she-beast to commit brutal murders, partially for revenge on a world which scoffed at his strange occult theories and unshakable belief that mindlessly destructive primeval monsters still lurk hidden deep within all of us, but mostly for the notoriety they bring his performances when he predicts the killings before they happen. - Creature of Destruction
He returns to the Sweetzer farmhouse, where they find numerous occult and countercultural symbols on the walls, and Nell and Louis missing. - The Last Exorcism
Bud is a traditional Chinese ghostbuster while Zidane is well-versed in Western occult arts, and they become friends after joining forces to subdue Christin. - Troublesome Night 14
Jealous invalid husband (Ferrer) tries to kill sexy blond wife (Lyon), who uses occult powers and devices to try to kill him. - Crash!
Boyle joins his new subordinate, Garda Aidan McBride (Rory Keenan), to investigate a murder in their jurisdiction, with evidence apparently pointing to an occult serial killer. - The Guard (2011 film)
Some narratives include the mythological characters of Diana and Actaeon, Knights of the Templar playing chess, a scandal among Parisian nobility, and an occult ceremony involving a sacrifice similar to that of St Sebastian. - The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Helena begins a friendship with Jonathan (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), the keeper of an occult bookshop, which develops into romance. - You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
She also meets Charlie Gorman (Ben Foster), who is considered the school geek because he also doesn't quite fit in and works in a family owned occult bookstore. - I've Been Waiting for You (film)
Ivan (Nebojša Glogovac), a promising judoist in his teenage years, has since had a history of neurosis, psychotic episodes, hospitalization, being heavily medicated, involvement in various occult groups and practices, prior to having been baptized in the Orthodox Church. - Hadersfild
Inside the church, Burt finds various occult drawings, a larger version of the trinket in Joseph's suitcase and a book listing the birthdays of the town's inhabitants. - Children of the Corn (2009 film)
Mathias is adept in the occult arts, which he practises with his friend dr Hermann (Antoine Balpêtré). - The Burning Court (film)
A few days before fellow Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) investigates a murder in a suburban home, in which occult paraphernalia has been laid out in a disorganized manner. - Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions
Dee is further shocked when Kelley tells him and the court that all their alchemical practices were all derived from Kelley's own intuition, and not occult means. - Dæmonomania
She uses the blood to draw occult symbols on Samantha's stomach and forehead, and forces Samantha to drink her blood from the skull. - The House of the Devil
Following an attack, ruthless businessman Russel Bayne transforms into a werewolf and seeks help from Alex Layton, an occult shop owner. - Wolvesbayne
Shalini approaches their neighbor, the old lady while mr Sharma takes the help of a psychiatrist (Ananth Nag) nonsensing the occult thoughts that his wife believes is the reason for their daughter's horror-stricken behavior. - Raat (film)
It cuts to a radio recording of two men discussing the nature of evil while close-ups of insects and occult writings play. - Credo (2008 film)
Eventually, Formalyn brings an occult weight-loss recipe of his Hindustani great-grandmother, and Pyecraft tries it for some time. - The Truth About Pyecraft
One of the more prominent works of Italy's premier horror stylist Mario Bava, this occult murder mystery interweaves elements of the traditional giallo thriller formula with an unusual Gothic ghost story. - Kill, Baby, Kill
However, because Calugarul believed in vampires and engaged in occult practices to combat them, she cannot be canonized. - Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon
Although a Hellblazer spin-off, there is no hint of magic or the occult in Heartland. - Heartland (comics)
Julia Fiveash, another English Nazi collaborator, is involved in the Ahnenerbe, an SS occult warfare division. - Weaver (Baxter novel)
The police force classify the case as special crime #568, and begin to seek investigators from occult sources. - Shikigami no Shiro
For centuries, a mysterious order of priests has jealously guarded the secret of the Bond of Saint Marcel: an occult ritual that enabled priests of the Order to enslave vampires and use them as unwilling soldiers against their own kind. - The Bond of Saint Marcel
She eventually goes to Jin's school, where she meets Kanoto Okubo, another of Jin's school friends, and occult club member Sachi Usui, who brings Izume-Chan, a weasel-girl who is Kogane's friend, to the human world. - Foxy Lady (manga)
A contrast between both former members is seen, as Trevor rejects the occult as "teenage curiosity" and moves on to music as business, while Jones embraces it, even having grotesque statues in his lawn, naming a large black fish in his pond after Satan, and giving the interview while wearing pagan-inspired regalia. - Murder Music: A History of Black Metal
During these events the scene cuts to a strange woman who carries a white cat and is surrounded by occult figurines and symbols, and has a framed portrait of Coffin Joe behind her on the wall. - The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
A young reporter interviews a gravedigger, Vivian Frederick, who tells her about the recently deceased mobster Robert Downing and the attempt to steal an ancient relic with occult powers that ends in a bloodbath. - Beyond the Limits (film)
He goes on to spend time in high school with the occult research society as shown before. - Rewrite (visual novel)
But unknown to them, a friend of Corazon was into the occult and sensed that the child was cursed. - Ikaw Na Sana
The 6-episode television comedy series closely follows the plot of the novel, which features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs, who owns the most evil cat in the world, (Greebo); and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewellery, even though none of it works. - Wyrd Sisters (TV series)
Needy goes to the school library's occult section and surmises that Jennifer is a succubus; she is weakest when she is hungry, and must feed on flesh in order to sustain her life and appearance. - Jennifer's Body
Resurrected 50 years after his death, Crowley begins his occult practices anew, seeking a new "scarlet bride" whom he can marry in an occult ceremony which will increase his power. - Chemical Wedding (film)
Searching for a copy of this book, he meets Shiela, a supposedly helpful clerk with a photographic memory, and has another run in with two mysterious, cloaked figures outside of an occult book store. - Dead Beat (The Dresden Files)
The story features heavy reference to the occult and tarot readings, and the stories of Léonie and Meredith are brought together by a series of visions that are related to the tarot and a small church, known as a Sepulchre, in the grounds of the Domaine de la Cade. - Sepulchre (Mosse novel)
During his investigation, Angel finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing occult milieu. - Falling Angel
When the player completes the main story with a certain number of different endings, two additional stories (the occult chapter and spy chapter) are unlocked. - Banshee's Last Cry
As Duncan's physical body nears its end, father and daughter perform an occult ritual that transfers Duncan's consciousness into Myles' body. - The Mephisto Waltz
Ward has become obsessed with the occult practices of raising the dead once used by his ancestor Joseph Curwen (Sarandon in a dual role). - The Resurrected
Suspects in Elizabeth's death are soon murdered one by one, and evidence of occult ritual begins to surface, leading to a confrontation with a cult leader who may be possessed by Satan himself. - The Pyx
The film begins with the description of an obscure occult practice in which people feed aborted fetuses blood to raise 'young ghosts'. - The Heirloom
), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 & 2, Nightwing), the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining) and spoofs (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th). - Terror in the Aisles
Blair comes to suspect that Morse wants to bring the Nazgûl together to perform an occult ritual that will unleash a dark supernatural power upon the world, an act of revenge against a world that has spurned the idealism of the late 1960s counter-culture. - The Armageddon Rag
After the witches gather and prepare for an occult ritual in their lair, he calls on his mighty giant vassals to help him wipe out the evil women. - János Vitéz
The stranger (who reveals he was once employed at the penitentiary where Jingles was placed and witnessed the tortures inflicted on Jingles that drove him mad) presents occult objects that he found in Jingles's prison cell as evidence, prompting Guinness to remember that Jingles did chant something in a strange language as he lay dying. - Mr. Jingles
Jon Hansen offers Decker a position as his assistant at the United Nations, where Christopher encounters Robert Milner, a retired Secretary General who is heavily involved in occult practices, and recognizes Christopher as one who has been prophesied in New Age Councils to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity and enhanced consciousness for mankind. - In His Image (novel)
The book deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and a sinister arms dealer, and their obsession with and through the occult with resurrecting Heinrich Himmler. - The Spear
Also in the picture is Vicki's assistant Coreen, who was hired because of her knowledge of the occult and to keep her quiet about Henry. - Blood Ties (TV series)
Long Island housewife Lucy Chadman in the midst of a tarot card reading by her occult sister, Zelda. - Hello Again (1987 film)
Her typewriter, which is demonically possessed, involves her in a series of occult experiences, including with her dead husband, among other things. - Who Made Stevie Crye?
In New Orleans, paranormal detective Harry D'Amour travels to the home of a recently deceased magician who hired him via medium Norma Paine in order to destroy evidence of his occult activities before his family can discover them. - The Scarlet Gospels
There to stop him is the researcher of the occult and Seward's teacher dr Enrico Valenzi the one who believes that Dracula can be defeated when he faces a strong will empowered by faith. - Dracula (miniseries)
He contacts an occult group called the Brotherhood, which is being led by a man named Singleton. - Dracula (2006 film)
The writing is part of an occult invocation intended to summon the devil. - The Devil in Amber
Using the reflective properties of a hermaphrodite symbol on the Loculus they reveal a hexagram built into the floor, an occult symbol. - Revelation (2001 film)
When Alan starts a school-wide quarrel over his claim to Martian ancestry, both are suspended from school for one week; during which, they meet Samuel Klugarsh, the owner of an occult bookstore, who sells them a kit meant to enable telepathy and psychokinesis. - Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
The shopkeeper believes the shop to be haunted, as occult worship once took place there, and tells Jarod that the engraving on the wall is evidence of this. - The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Frank Marrity (a widower) and his loving twelve-year-old daughter, Daphne, are drawn into a dangerous occult world when his grandmother (affectionately called "Grammar") dies in bizarre circumstances. - Three Days to Never
As is usually the case with 7th grade girls, Meirin is not immune to developing infatuation for boys her age; in Meirin's case, the boy of choice is her childhood friend Asuka who has a difficult time placing occult phenomenon such as feng-shui in perspective. - Ask Dr. Rin!
The album, which is meant to be read as an "operetta in three acts", is set in Bohemia, in the year of 1913, and tells the story of Atrament, a young wandering occultist who just arrives in the village of Jilemnice with the intent of furthering his studies on the occult arts there (since at the time the village was a major venue for occultists and Spiritist mediums). - Jilemnický okultista
They investigate, and witness an occult ceremony using the corpse of Sparks' father. - The List of Seven
After becoming a part of the group, he comes to realize that the group has a deeper occult agenda and use extreme, sometimes supernatural, tactics to "help" new members remain clean and sober. - Coven (film)
Back-tracking to where it all began, Red Hook is described in detail, with its gangs and crime, and hinting at an occult underbelly. - The Horror at Red Hook
He goes to her home so she can tell his fortune, and she impresses him with her occult knowledge. - Carmen (novella)
Nearly out of gas, they stop in at the diner only to discover it is the target of zombie attacks, hauntings, and occult activity. - Gil's All Fright Diner
Kurou used to attend the Miskatonic University, majoring in Archaeology while secretly studying sorcery, but dropped out after an unspecified incident that has caused him to become averse to dealing with occult matters. - Demonbane
All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker". - Shrieker (film)
They need an occult expert to identify important artefacts on the ship, and for some reason Hitler himself claims to trust "Major Schmidt" implicitly. - The Shadow in the Glass
More and more, she wanted to believe that he had occult powers and could do anything. - The Killing Doll
James visits an English university where a professor, known for his knowledge of occult studies, is lecturing about Sadhus. - The Sadhu
Mark suddenly realizes that the key ingredient in the antacids is deadly nightshade, also called "the Hand of Glory" as outlined in his occult book. - The Mangler (film)
American expatriate occult writer John Verney (Widmark) is asked by Henry Beddows (Elliot) to pick up his daughter Catherine (Kinski) from London airport. - To the Devil a Daughter
The main viewpoint character, Roger Jourgensen, is a CIA analyst who writes up a report on the state of both the US and Soviet governments' occult research for incoming president Reagan. - A Colder War
Bec and Kawl are art students who dabble in the occult and this leads them into a whole range of adventures from meeting the tooth fairies and defending the Earth from alien traffic cones. - Bec & Kawl
Enlisting the help of Travis Jordan, he seeks to prove that the so-called Brandon Nichols is not in fact a "better" Christian Messiah, but a puffed-up egomaniac using occult powers. - The Visitation (novel)
They all deduce that the Stone may be in the local museum, as the museum's founder, Nathaniel Payne, was obsessed with occult artifacts and delighted in collecting them. - Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
When a former colleague, Adrian O'Flaherty, arrives in town and invites him to a secret auction of rare occult books, Wes immediately agrees. - Book of the Dead (Angel novel)
But this was only a facade to occult his main objective. - Digimon Data Squad
She offers to share her occult knowledge with David and his younger siblings Janie, Tesser, and Blair. - The Headless Cupid
An English gentleman named Glyndon loves Viola as well, but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love to pursue occult study. - Zanoni
She's discovered that her brother Lok is delving into the occult in order to learn more about their great grandfather's death in Sunnydale many years ago. - Revenant (Buffy novel)
Meanwhile, Fitz appears before a group of disenchanted, young Time Lords who are holding rituals based on the occult texts of Faction Paradox and finds himself unable to escape. - The Ancestor Cell
While Hayes distracts Yorga with enthusiastic questions about Yorga's occult experiments, Brudah rebuffs Michael's attempts to explore the mansion. - Count Yorga, Vampire
The moonchild rituals are carried out in southern Italy, but the occult organizations are based in Paris and England. - Moonchild (novel)
In that incarnation (as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the Theo-Christic Adepts) he travelled to Venus/Hysperia in a subtle body while his physical form remained at the temple inside Mt Shasta. - A Dweller on Two Planets
The loosely documentary-style film is centered on the experiences of a New York model, who travels from San Diego, California, to an occult center on the island of Maui, Hawaii. - Rainbow Bridge (film)
William Sebastian (Robert Culp) is a former criminologist who now studies the occult to explain the problem of human evil. - Spectre (1977 film)
Hanussen knows the Nazis dabble in the occult and hopes to become a part of Hitler's future government. - Invincible (2001 drama film)
His life is entangled with the obsessions of those around him with greed, power, and debauchery against a background of occult symbolism. - Eureka (1983 film)
The Satanists perform occult rites on the newborn. - End of Days (film)
The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible (Angulo), a death metal salesman from Carabanchel (Segura), and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult (De Razza). - The Day of the Beast
Murray (who had appeared in the preceding Dracula film) suggests consulting noted occult expert Professor Lorrimar Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Corso visits Baroness Ungern, whose charitable institution possesses the largest occult collection in Europe, including the third copy of The Nine Doors. - The Club Dumas
The story involves a kindly small-town physician Doctor Lloyd Clayton (George Zucco), who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn's deep involvement in satanic occult practices. - Dead Men Walk
The protagonist, Robert Blake - a young man with an interest in the occult (he is a writer of weird stories and a painter of fantastic paintings) - becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on Federal Hill in Providence's west - the Italian and migrant quarter - which he can see from his lodgings in Providence's Upper East side. - The Haunter of the Dark
This takes Pollack first of all to an occult bookshop called "The Oath of Incannabulata" where he steals a copy of a book about the mysterious "Order of Bonniface". - Black Kiss
In 2004 Department Q, a Ministry of Defence department originally created in the 1940s to combat nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government. - Caballistics, Inc.
Karin has a cheerful and energetic personality, and has an odd affection towards the occult and objects such as egg sandwiches. - To Heart 2
The film makes use of several phenomena that can be described as occult portents that meeting a love match is imminent or occult tools to help strengthen, seal or bring about love, luck and happiness. - The Butcher's Wife
' They came to Salem fleeing the Thief, an occult being and they brought an artifact called the Pillar of Smoke with them. - Spellbinders
A book is dropped off at the home of Ignatius Blackward, a priest and occult expert. - Nightmare Creatures
Under the iron fist ofCON, nearly all religion in the world has been wiped out, except for small occult and mystic sects. - !Hero
Variations of his story are (1) he was on his way to elope against the wishes of family; (2) he was visiting a wealthy, aged aunt to secure an inheritance from her; (3) he was seeking a cure for impotence; (4) he was pursuing some scientific or occult knowledge, possibly concerning knowledge of the future. - A Maggot
He does and then he convinces her to give up investigating the occult to save her family, whom the spirit world threatened because of its anger at Fi's intrusions. - So Weird
Meanwhile, all the school lockers are searched for witch-related material, and Giles's occult books are seized by police. - Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Covenant, well aware of Galloway's reputation for dealing with occult matters, is in failing health and raves about a curse that has destroyed his entire family. - Clive Barker's Undying
At the beginning of the story, Kouhei travels to a castle in Germany to take photographs of paranormal phenomena for his friend Hiromi, who is the editor of an occult magazine. - Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
At this time, Silenus becomes convinced that it is the Shrike who is his muse, who, in some occult way, his poem had brought into existence. - Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Louis walks to his house, discovers a strange occult symbol painted on his mailbox, and finds that Anne is not there. - Fade (video game)
Forty years after an unfinished occult ritual resulted in the disappearance of six young children, an American family has moved into a never-before inhabited house in Spain. - Darkness (2002 film)
When these conditions are right, men and women with occult knowledge may gather at a specific ritual site to hold the doors closed, or to help fling them open. - A Night in the Lonesome October
On his first evening in Paris, Burdon meets Oliver Haddo, who claims to be a magician and is an acquaintance of Burdon's mentor, the retired doctor and occult scholar dr Porhoët. - The Magician (Maugham novel)
When Tess Hunter and her mother arrive in Century Falls, they gradually find it to be a strange village, haunted by a disaster that befell it during the performance of an occult ceremony forty years earlier. - Century Falls
As such, he is called upon to solve various occult mysteries, or stumbles himself on people whom his kind nature compels him to help. - Tokyo Babylon
Edward Carnby (Slater) is a detective who specializes in the occult & other paranormal subjects. - Alone in the Dark (2005 film)
The interior is empty, and a symbol of five intersecting circles, which Roney identifies as the occult pentacle, is etched on a wall that appears to conceal an inner chamber. - Quatermass and the Pit
Ray owns an occult bookstore and works as an unpopular children's entertainer with Winston, Egon works in a laboratory conducting experiments into human emotion, and Peter hosts a pseudo-psychic television show. - Ghostbusters II
Caleb is a resurrected Wild West gunslinger or similar pulp fiction anti-hero, but the various levels contain elements from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, in addition to futuristic and retro-futuristic technologies (reference to Tesla) and a faint occult weird West theme. - Blood (video game)
D wanders through a far-future post-nuclear Earth that combines elements of pulp genres: western, science fiction, horror, high fantasy, Lovecraftian mythos, folklore and occult science. - Vampire Hunter D
Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world; and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two. - Wyrd Sisters
After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. - Foucault's Pendulum
He devises some "curses" for them in the pages of the book, using occult symbols and Greek letters, and placing the book where they will find it. - The Go-Between
After breaking into the facility, which has been overrun by the twisted creatures he encountered in Kugelstadt (dubbed 'Lopers'), Blazkowicz retrieves Deathshead's journal, its content directly linking Deathshead's research to the rest of the SS Paranormal's occult activity. - Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. - Carmilla

Example sentences for "occult" in interesting articles

: ) Bean Machine Posted 26 May 2006 at 10:14 am Just build a huge temple on it chock-full of fiendishly cruel and lethal traps, decorate the walls with arcane & occult warnings and cap the the final seal with a solid gold ‘Ark of the Covenant’ . - Warning signs for the year 10,000

Meaning of "occult" in English

having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
Examples
- the mystical style of Blake
- occult lore
- the secret learning of the ancients
hidden and difficult to see
Example
- occult blood in the stool
supernatural practices and techniques
supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
hide from view
become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
Example
- Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies

Meaning of "occult" in Hindi

तंत्र-मंत्र ( Tantr-mantr)
गुप्त ( Gupt)
छिपा हुआ ( Chhipa hu, chhipaa huaa)

Synonyms of "occult"

mystical
orphic
mystic
mysterious
secret
occult arts
supernatural
eclipse

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