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Many events have two explanations. This type maps the paranormal one. Its for a natural event claimed to have a religious, paranormal or miraculous cause. (2006 Mumbai "sweet" seawater incident)Scientific criticism is reserved for other argument-mapping types. see : Event of disputed occurancethe...
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71 Event(s) interpreted as miraculous or paranormal topics matching:
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| x Monkey tree phenomenon | Religious pareidolia |
The monkey tree phenomenon is a social phenomenon in Singapore, which began in September 2007. It arose from the discovery of a callus on a tree in Hong Kah, which appears monkey-like. Some believe the image to be of divine origin, while others have...
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| x New England's Dark Day |
New England's Dark Day refers to an event that occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of...
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| x 2006 Mumbai "sweet" seawater incident | Miracle |
The 2006 Mumbai "sweet" seawater incident was a strange phenomenon during which residents of Mumbai claimed that the water at Mahim Creek, one of the most polluted creeks in India that receives thousands of tonnes of raw sewage and industrial waste...
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| x Dancing Plague of 1518 |
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Dancing mania |
The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about...
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| x Kennedy Curse | Curse |
The Kennedy tragedies, colloquially called the Kennedy Curse, is a term sometimes used to describe a series of events involving members of the Kennedy family. The notion of a curse is superstitious and was created and is fostered by the news media....
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| x Stentoften Runestone |
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Curse |
The Stentoften Runestone, listed in the Rundata catalog as DR 357, is a runestone which contains a curse in Proto-Norse that was discovered in Stentoften, Blekinge, Sweden.
This is the English translation provided by Rundata:
In lines AP and AQ, in...
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| x Usog | Curse |
"Usog" or balis is a topic in psycho-medicine in Filipino Psychology (but considered just as a Filipino superstition in Western Psychology) where an affliction or psychological disorder is attributed to a greeting by a stranger, or an evil eye hex....
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| x Chained oak |
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Curse |
The Chained Oak is the local legend of Alton Village in Staffordshire, England.
The legend goes that on an autumn night in 1821, the Earl of Shrewsbury was returning to his home in Alton Towers when an old woman suddenly appeared in the road.
The...
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| x Sweater curse |
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Curse |
Knitters use the term "sweater curse" or "curse of the love sweater" to describe a situation in which a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter. In an alternative formulation, the relationship...
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| x Evil eye |
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Curse |
The evil eye is a look that is believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for the person at whom it is directed for reasons of envy or dislike. The term also refers to the power attributed to certain persons of inflicting...
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| x The Crying Boy | Curse |
The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Bruno Amadio, also known as Giovanni Bragolin. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or...
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| x Book curse | Curse |
A book curse was the most widely-employed and effective method of discouraging the thievery of manuscripts during the medieval period. The use of book curses dates back much further, to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to...
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| x Saleby Runestone | Curse |
The Saleby Runestone, designated as Vg 67 in the Rundata catalog, was originally located in Saleby, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Västergötland, and is one of the few runestones that is raised in memory of a...
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| x Curse of the ninth | Curse |
The curse of the ninth is a superstition connected with the history of classical music. In essence, it is the belief that a "ninth symphony" is destined to be a composer's last; i.e. that he or she will be "fated" to die after writing it, or before...
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| x Pele's Curse | Curse |
Pele's Curse is the belief that anything natively Hawaiian, such as sand, rock, or pumice, will effect bad luck on whoever takes it away from Hawaii.
One version about the legend's genesis is this: a disgruntled park ranger, angry at the number of...
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| x Pagtatawas | Curse |
"Pagtatawas" is a ritual in psycho-medicine in Filipino Psychology (but considered just as a Filipino superstition in Western Psychology) where an affliction or psychological disorder is diagnosed by interpreting the form produced in a basin of...
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| x Superman curse | Curse |
The Superman Curse refers to a superstition that is based on a series of misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and...
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| x Curse of the Pharaohs |
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Curse |
The Curse of the Pharaohs refers to the belief that any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh, is placed under a curse. This curse, which does not differentiate between thieves and well-intentioned...
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| x Wandering Jew |
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Curse |
The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until...
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| x Curse of the Boulder Valley | Curse |
The Curse of Boulder Valley is reported to be a sentiment expressed as certainty by Chief Niwot, leader of the Southern Arapaho, to Caucsian prospectors come to the Boulder Valley in search of gold. Encamped at what they considered to be a sacred...
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| x The Bell Witch |
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Curse |
The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a poltergeist legend from Southern United States folklore, involving the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee. The legend is the basis of the films The Bell Witch Haunting (2004) and An American Haunting (2006)...
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| x Curse of Tippecanoe |
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Curse |
The name Curse of Tippecanoe (also known as Tecumseh's Curse, the Presidential Curse, Zero-Year Curse, the Twenty-Year Curse, or the Twenty-Year Presidential Jinx) is used to describe the regular death in office of presidents elected in years...
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| x EBay Haunted Painting | Curse |
The Hands Resist Him, also known as The eBay Haunted Painting, is a painting created by Oakland, California artist Bill Stoneham in 1972. It depicts a young boy and female doll standing in front of a glass paneled door against which many hands are...
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| x Ex-Cubs Factor | Curse |
The Ex-Cub Factor is a seemingly spurious correlation that is essentially a corollary to the Curse of the Billy Goat. Widely published in 1990, the hypothesis asserts that since the last appearance by the Chicago Cubs in the 1945 World Series, any...
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| x Curse of the Colonel |
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Curse |
Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い, Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders. The curse...
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| x Curse of LaBonte | Curse |
The "Curse of LaBonte" is quite possibly one of the most famous curses in curling history. It was caused by an incident at the finals of the 1972 world men's curling championship, the 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany....
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| x Curse of 1940 |
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Curse |
The Curse of 1940, also called Dutton's Curse, was a superstitious explanation for why the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) did not win the league's championship trophy, the Stanley Cup, from 1940 to 1994.
The Rangers began play...
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| x Crucible Curse | Curse |
The "Crucible curse" (also known as the "The curse of the Crucible") refers to the fact that no first-time snooker world champion has retained his title the following year since the event moved to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977. The last...
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| x Curse of the Black Sox | Curse |
The "Curse of the Black Sox" (also known as the "Curse of Shoeless Joe") (1919–2005) was a superstition or "scapegoat" cited as one reason for the failure of the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series from 1917 until 2005. As with other supposed...
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| x Andretti Curse | Curse |
The Andretti Curse, sometimes referred to as Andretti Luck, and in some rare circles, the Curse of Andy Granatelli's kiss, is in reference to the unexplainable bad luck the Andretti racing family has experienced in their efforts to win the...
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| x Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx | Curse |
The Sports Illustrated cover jinx is an urban legend that states that individuals or teams who appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine will subsequently be jinxed (experience bad luck). This is an example of confirmation bias.
While...
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| x Curse of Rocky Colavito | Curse |
The Curse of Rocky Colavito is a phenomenon that supposedly prevents the Cleveland Indians baseball team from winning, be it the World Series, the American League pennant, reaching postseason play, or even getting into a pennant race. Its origin is...
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| x Curse of Norm Smith | Curse |
The Curse of Norm Smith is a superstitious explanation for why the Melbourne Football Club have not won the VFL/AFL premiership since 1964.
Norm Smith had been the coach at the Demons since taking over in 1952, after Melbourne finished last in 1951....
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| x Curse of Muldoon |
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Curse |
The Curse of Muldoon was an alleged curse that supposedly prevented the Chicago Black Hawks (the team's name at the time) of the National Hockey League from finishing in first place, either in their division or, from 1938 to 1967, in the single...
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| x Super Bowl curse | Curse |
The Super Bowl Curse is a phrase referring to three types: Super Bowl participants that follow up with lower-than-expected performance the following year; teams that do not repeat as World Champions; and host teams of the Super Bowl that do not play...
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| x Curse of the Bambino |
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Curse |
The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition created because of the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a...
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| x Curse of the Billy Goat |
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Curse |
The curse of the Billy Goat was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs' home ground of Wrigley Field because his pet goat...
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| x San Diego Sports Curse |
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Curse |
The San Diego sports curse is a superstition cited for the city of San Diego's inability to claim a modern North American major league professional sports championship (Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup, and NBA Finals). With a population of...
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| x Curse of Billy Penn |
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Curse |
The Curse of Billy Penn was an alleged curse used to explain the failure of major professional sports teams based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to win championships since the March 1987 construction of the One Liberty Place skyscraper, which...
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| x Curse of Fred Merkle |
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Curse |
Merkle's Boner refers to the notorious baserunning gaffe committed by rookie Fred Merkle of the New York Giants in a game against the Chicago Cubs in 1908. Merkle's failure to advance to second base on what should have been a game-winning hit led...
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| x Chicago Cubs futility theories |
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Curse |
The Chicago Cubs have the longest dry spell between championships in all four major U.S. sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA) having failed to win a World Series since 1908; the other three major sports leagues were not even in existence when the...
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| x Heisman curse | Curse |
The Heisman Curse is a term coined to reference a two-part assertion of a negative future for the winning player. The "curse" supposes that any college football player who wins the Heisman Trophy will lose their subsequent bowl game. Since 2000,...
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| x Star Prophecy | Prophecy |
The "Star Prophecy" (or Star and Scepter prophecy) is a Messianic reading applied by radical Jews and early Christians to a text from the Book of Numbers 24:17:
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a Star...
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| x Maid of Lorraine prophecies | Prophecy |
For some years before and around the time of activity of Joan of Arc, a number of vague prophecies concerning a young Maid who would save France were circulating. The prophecies were attributed to several sources, including St. Bede the Venerable,...
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| x Prophecies of Joseph Smith, Jr. |
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Prophecy |
Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, is viewed as a prophet in the tradition of the ancient prophets recorded in the Bible by members of the Latter Day Saint movement. During his life, he made several prophesies, many...
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| x Prayer to the shoulder wound of Jesus |
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Vision |
This Roman Catholic prayer is variously attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux or to St. Gertrude or St. Mechtilde.
In English:
According to St. Bernard, he asked Jesus which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and the wound that inflicted the...
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| x Angels of Mons | Vision |
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short...
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| x The Miracle of the Sun |
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Miracle |
The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: O Milagre do Sol) was an event on 13 October 1917 in which 30,000 to 100,000 people, who were gathered near Fátima, Portugal, claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity.
The people had gathered because...
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| x Eucharistic miracle |
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Miracle |
A Eucharistic miracle is any miracle involving the Eucharist. Eucharistic miracles typically involve the visible transformation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ during the consecration portion of a Catholic Mass or...
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| x Miracles of Buddha |
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Miracle |
Gautama Buddha was alleged to possess superhuman powers and abilities; however, due to an understanding of the workings of the skeptical mind, he reportedly responded to a request for miracles by saying, "...I dislike, reject and despise them," and...
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| x Miracle of the Gulls |
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Miracle |
The miracle of the gulls is often credited by Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") for saving the Mormon pioneers' first harvest in Utah. According to Mormon folklore, seagulls miraculously saved the 1848 crops by eating thousands of insects that were...
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| x Miracles of Jesus |
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Miracle | Jesus Christ |
The miracles of Jesus are the supernatural deeds of Jesus, as recorded in Gospels, in the course of his ministry. According to the Gospel of John, only some of these were recorded. John 21:25 states that "Jesus did many other things as well. If...
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| x Hindu milk miracle |
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Miracle |
The Hindu milk miracle was a phenomenon, considered by many Hindus as a miracle, which occurred on September 21, 1995. Before dawn, a Hindu worshipper at a temple in south New Delhi made an offering of milk to a statue of Ganesha. When a spoonful of...
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| x Mario Pantaleo | Miracle |
José Mario Pantaleo (August 1, 1915 – August 19, 1992) was an Italian priest who lived most of his life in Argentina. He is known as Padre Mario. He was well known for the healings of thousands as well as for the construction of a foundation in...
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| x Moving statues | Miracle |
The moving statues phenomenon occurred during the summer of 1985 in Ireland, where statues of the Virgin Mary were reported to move spontaneously.
In Ballinspittle, County Cork in July 1985, an observer claimed to have seen a roadside statue of the...
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| x Keramat | Miracle |
In Islamic philosophy, irfan, and mysticism, keramat (کرامت also کرامات) is a "thaumaturgic gift" akin to the miracles of prophets.
Sufis believe that, whereas miracles can only be performed by prophets (Allah creates the miracle in support to His...
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| x Miracles of Muhammad | Miracle |
According to historian Denis Gril, the Qur'an does not overtly describe Muhammad performing miracles, and the supreme miracle of Muhammad is finally identified with the Qur’an itself. However, Muslim tradition credits Muhammad with several...
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| x Splitting of the moon |
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Miracle |
The splitting of the moon (Arabic: انشقاق القمر) was a miracle attributed to Muhammad in Islamic tradition. It derives from the Qur'anic verse "Sura Al-Qamar, verse 1-3"54:1-2: The HOUR (of Judgment) is nigh and the moon did split. And if they see...
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| x Latin American Miracles | Miracle |
Miracles are events which seem to defy standard, rational or normal explanations, and tend to be explained by divine intervention. Most of Latin America is predominantly Catholic and miracles have a deep historical tradition in Catholic theology. To...
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| x Marian apparitions |
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Miracle |
A Marian apparition is an event in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared to one or more people. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary...
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