The point was to distinguish the preternatural and the supernatural, the wonders (mirabilia) of demons and the miracles (miracula) of saints.
Virtuosity - and here the stock nineteenth-century operatic heroine comes to mind - only added to the 'vivacity' of the preternatural cry.
It would need a back of preternatural strength and hardihood, grievously laden as it already is, to bear these additional burdens.
Artists undoubtedly have insights, what the old scholastic theologians, now gone out of fashion, used to refer to as preternatural gifts.
Some escapees have other preternatural powers, such as the ability to control the elements or turn invisible.
However, the story can not be entirely excluded from mythos continuity either, since it makes reference to preternatural, godlike beings.
Publicity imitates that aura of personal prestige and preternatural authority which the representative public sphere had once imparted.
These devices refer to a sprite as a preternatural creature.
