'Don't try to be paranormal until you know what's normal.' (LL)
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Magrat bought occult jewellery as a sort of distraction from being Magrat. She had three large boxes of the stuff and was still exactly the same person. (WA)
… when you’re a pharaoh, you get a very high class of obscure dream. (P)
Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient. (ISWM)
Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious about. (W)
'Mrs Earwig tells her girls it’s about cosmic balances and stars and circles and colours and wands and…and toys, nothing but toys!’ She sniffed. ‘Oh, I daresay they’re all very well as decoration, somethin’ for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin’ people when life is on the edge. Even people you don’t like. Stars is easy, people is hard.' (HFS)
Granny Weatherwax did not believe in atmospheres. She did not believe in psychic auras. Being a witch, she’d always thought, depended more on what you didn’t believe. (WA)
'I wouldn’t do that if I were you, old chap,’ said the Senior Wrangler. ‘You don’t know where it might take you.’
‘Don’t care,’ said the Dean. He still didn’t take his eyes of the thing. ‘I mean, it’s not of this world,’said the Senior Wrangler. ‘I’ve been of this world for more than seventy years,’said the Dean, ‘and it is extremely boring.' (SM) 'Tarot cards are European occult. Voodoo is African occult.’
‘Don’t be daft, it’s American,’ said Wobbler. ‘No, American occult is Elvis Presley not being dead and that sort of thing,’ said Yo-less. (JD) In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewellery and
green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. (GO) And she made sure that she had always put sprouts on to boil just before a séance. Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism, than the smell of Brussel sprouts cooking in the
next room. (GO) People are coming to me all the time to ask things like, what kind of wedding anniversary d’you call it after ten years, or, is it lucky to plant beans on a Thursday. Of course, it’s nat’ral for people to ask witches this sort of thing on account of us bein’ suppositories of tradition, but the younger girls I see around don’t seem very keen on picking this sort of thing up, them being far too keen on candles and lucky crystals and so on. I reckon if a crystal’s so lucky, how come it’s ended up as a bit of rock? I don’t trust all this occult, you never know who had it last. (NOC)
The sinking of continents is usually accompanied by volcanoes, earthquakes, and armadas of little boats containing old men anxious to build pyramids and mystic stone circles in some new land where being the possessor of genuine ancient occult wisdom might be expected to attract girls. (J)
'I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult," said Granny firmly. ‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’
‘But all them things exist,’ said Nanny Ogg. ‘That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.' (LL) Inexplicable phenomena were not in themselves unusual on the Discworld. Rains of fish, for example, were so common in the little landlocked village of Pine Dressers that it had a flourishing smoking, canning and kipper-filleting industry. And in the mountain regions of Syrrit many sheep, left out in the fields all night, would be found in the morning to be facing the other way, without the apparent intervention of any human agency. (RM)
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