Talk:Preternatural

message: This introduction describes the "power of flight that angels are thought to have" and then cites an Encylopedia.com article on the Preternatural that doesn't mention flight or flying anywhere in the article. This seems to be a confusion between angels and saints, some of whom are believed to have exhibited a preternatural levitation ability at times. Angels are not corporeal creatures, so flight and flying would be irrelevant in terms of an ontological category of the preternatural, and evokes the image of angels only in popular media and imagination. I suggest changing "angels" to "saints" and citing an appropriate source about levitation. MaxWestEsq (talk) 15:03, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Power of flight for angels?

message: Wouldn't this be better in Wiktionery? Wetman 11:42, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: And what exactly does "science's 'too difficult' basket" mean? --Fastfission 05:11, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiktionary entry?

message: I believe this word 'preternatural' is somewhat ambiguous. It seems to be generally used as a somewhat more restrained alternative to 'supernatural', which is perhaps more suggestive of something 'religious' or 'mystical'. One could say "Einstein seems to have had a preternatural aptitude for mathematics" amongst a gathering of hardened skeptics without drawing awkward stares, whereas the statement "Einstein seems to have had a supernatural aptitude for mathematics" would be more likley to draw some groans. Weird illustration, but I think it conveys the point i am trying to make ;).~~
I have seen 'preternatural' used in fiction to denote werewolves and the like, while 'supernatural' seems to be reserved for demons and angels.  In Christian writings, 'supernatural' seems to be reserved for God, and 'preternatural' is used for anything else miraculous or abnormal. Franzeska 19:47, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Really? From the introduction to Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural linked "on the main article" : Preternature is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the preternatural as seen in magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore. The word has no use to anyone but theologians who wish to separate one form of their nonsense from another.--OGRastamon (talk) 07:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

text: In contradiction to the above the article now says: "Other examples of preternatural creatures INCLUDE Lycanthropes (such as Werewolves), Vampires and Zombies.". I see the simple difference in the latin word meanings: preternatural=beyond nature, supernatural=above nature. Only difference seems to be that "supernatural" includes religion, deism and spirituality while preternatural excludes those. Is preternatural simply a subcategory of supernatural as "supernatural as a human coping mechanism" (like fear for undead or animals) or "supernatural manifested through nature" (like fallen angels power downgrading from supernatural godlike power to preternatural magic. See :Category talk:Paranormal for differentiating definitions --Ollj 13:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguity

message: "Supernatural" is not necessarily associated with "divine."
78.0.81.255 (talk) 13:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Divinity

message: PREEtur vs PRETTERtur ? either?
98.110.40.14 (talk) 22:49, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: pronunciation?

message: Confused, more defination re: PRETERNATUAL events. It seems that all the so called interaction between Humans and suppossed eneties are always EVIL intended? Is this so? ThanksMinEdsonAndreJohnson (talk) 00:40, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are ALL   Preternatual events always evil ? 

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