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(5) There is only one God! He is omniscient but powerless. He cannot do anything or have any effect on what goes on in the world ...

(24) Some people are dead but they keep walking around. They cannot talk any more, and they are not aware of what they are doing ...

be very weird if she asked you why you never had dinner at home or why you never had soup. In other words, you assume that this ...

why computer programs have great difficulty recognizing a circle and a square in the above figures. It takes quite a lot of subt ...

A Fang friend of mine once insisted that he had seena gifted shaman perform an extraordinary feat. The old man had stuck a finge ...

However, Humphrey also shows why this explanation is insuffi- cient. The source of all this fascination cannot be that there are ...

shows. Suppose I had a new kind of paranormal belief, for which this was the evidence: first, when I try magically to move my so ...

umes of mythology, fantastic tales, anecdotes, cartoons, religious writ- ings and science fiction, you will get an extraordinary ...

league boots or a talking wolf disguised as a grandmother, or a woman who gave birth to an incarnation of a god after a visit fr ...

giraffe that gave birth to an aardvark," this violates expectations about the ontological category (because of the intuitive pri ...

modern rural Greece, away from the reassuring space of the village. All these exotikáare thought to be either incarnations of th ...

gested that they are produced by recipes that would work in any nor- mal human mind. But we could not automatically rule out the ...

with a whole range of supernatural notions but these were entirely nonserious, belonging to the genres of fantasy, folklore, sci ...

Violations remain circumscribed Barrett and I also tested strange combinations of concepts not usually found in human cultures. ...

whether you are in a crowd or on your own, sitting on a train or driving your car. In many places Christians also treat some art ...

series of careful experimental studies of both children's and adult categories among Yoruba in Nigeria, and showed how intuition ...

point of this is that people cannot store a text verbatim if it is longer than a few sentences. What they do is form a memory of ...

spond to their actual commitments, people here are certain that they believe in a God with nonstandard cognitive powers. However ...

accounts for a whole variety of concepts: notions of invisible dead peo- ple hovering about, of statuettes that listen to people ...

some Siberian shamans in their trances. One group's unimportant reli- gious concepts can become another's religion, and vice ver ...