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R e i n c a r n a t i o n
Revive into a new body after death

The Buddhists believe in reincarnation.Some of them believe that after several reincarnations, if a person is "good", so to speak, he ascends to the level of the Bodisatvas and he doesn't have to be born again.Instead, he will dwell on a higher plane or place-like the Heaven.Some people is said to be bad when the live and reborn into a lower lifeform as a punishment such as the house-fly or a rat.
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D i v i n a t i o n
Fortune telling by supernatural means
Divination is the cat of fortune-telling through a supernatural medium.Very few experts are willing to explain their methods.There are numerous branches of fortune-telling.Below is the list of the different categories an what the apparatus they use to reveal their forecast.

Astrology > influence of stars
Bibliomancy > uses books by random flipping
Botomancy > reads leaves of plants
Cartomancy > playing cards
Crystallomancy > reading of a crystal ball
Lithomancy > patterns of pebbles
Numerology > significants of numbers
Oneiromancy > interpreation of dreams
Onomancy > letters of a person's name
Palmistry > reads your palm
Sortilege > casting of lots


W i t c h c r a f t
Spell casting
Witchcraft exists in may forms in many societies.Voodoo, Taoist, socery, Shamanism-these are all part of the same process whereby deeds are committed through supernatural means.However, "witchcraft" as ageneral definition has been combined with that Satan worship and harmful black magic.It is assumed to be diabolical, evil and destructive.
Hence witches heve been blamed in the past for all sorts of misfortunes, ranging from the untimely death of one's pet to freaky weather.The witch-hunts that took place in the fifteenth century are but examples of the amount of hatred and fear ordinary people felt against witches.
In Eastern sociaties, suoernatural activities do not pocess the stigma they suffer in the West, and are not regarded as taboo.they are not labelled as evil by virtue of their being un-Chirstian.Rather, good magic that does good receive positive response and evil magic does evil in condemmed.
The Malay bomoh is an equivalent of the sorcerer in our region, as are the Chinese Taoist, the medicinal Buddisht monk, the temple medium, etc.It is interesting to know that their methods is as intersting as their heritage.


B U N Y I P
The beast of the billabong
Bunyip the beast of the swamp area is said to look like a pig with striped, a cow with fangs or a huge dog.Bunyip is said to lure men with a song or screeching sound.The man will be lured to his boggy death slowly to the bunyip's stomach.Bunyip have appeared for centuries and many encounters have been dated.The Bunyip has aslo been told in the aborigines dream stories.Some Bunyip encounter are mistaken to wild dogs or escaped hyenas living wild in area.
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