To Hopi Indians they are sacred - tools through which the living can communicate with the spirits of the dead.
In recent years, the Borden home has been turned into a bed and breakfast, allowing those with a taste for the macabre to spend a night communing with the spirits of those involved in the terrible events of that long ago day.
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He makes his characters rub shoulders with some of the demons and master spirits of the age.
Bartenders are pretty creative when it comes to toddies, and advertise them on their menus with all sorts of spirits, spices, teas, and ciders.
Bernard Arnault, the chairman of France's luxury-goods group LVMH , proposed merging his company's wine and spirits business with those of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan .
Together with Jonathan Batty (45) and Mark Butcher (47), Ramprakash shared stands of 89 and 77 with the pair to dampen the spirits of the Lancashire attack.
Citizens might lift their spirits with a list of 50 officially approved slogans issued to mark national day (soldiers have been ordered to post them up and shout them in their camps).
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Then, recharge your spirits with an included tour of Finca Filadelfia, a traditional coffee plantation for which Guatemala has become famous.
It sounds like summer camp, but Warm Springs was in fact a retreat with a mission: to heal the spirits and bodies of Americans who'd been afflicted with polio before the Salk vaccine was developed in 1954.
We find ourselves in another time of mourning for people we may not know in person, but whose spirits we will live with for the rest of our lives.
If the government was concerned only with growth, it might have been happy with this immediate revival of animal spirits.
As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.
During the worst year of the Great Depression, 1937, a writer named Napoleon Hill picked the theme out of the gutter and lifted the spirits of the country, with a best seller called Think and Grow Rich.
With colder months approaching, shaking up Tiki-style cocktails with more heat-packing spirits like gin, bourbon and cognac can fortify you with a belt of winter-beating warmth while also transporting you to your favorite tropical island.
They've been making amazing spirits for 300 years... there's a certain attention to detail that the French have with all of their products, whether it's wine or spirits.
Scandinavian folklore is rife with tale of nisse or tomten, elfin spirits who haunt houses and play tricks on their occupants.
This time of year is traditionally associated with high spirits as revellers welcome in another year.
For guidance on how to build one of these boozy masterpieces, I turned to Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone, authors of Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer (Quirk, 2010), essential reading for the tippling baker.
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If Tim Tebow were to be sprinkled with magic Lombardi dust and simultaneously possessed by the spirits of Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham and Popeye the Sailor-Man, he would be lucky to be one-quarter as good as Peyton Manning at his best.
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The ONS said that the spirits drunk by younger people were reflected with the addition of white rum from off-licences, but some sales of champagne have been withdrawn because the amount of bubbly drunk continues to fall.
Germany's industry federation dampened Mr Kohl's spirits by presenting him on June 9th with a long catalogue of unfinished business, from privatisation and deregulation to tax reform and a tougher attack on social-security costs.
Druids also worship the spirits of places, such as mountains and rivers, with rituals focused particularly on the turning of the seasons.
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But GOP spirits were dampened somewhat with the revelation that Chairez is the focus of a long-pending sexual discrimination case in his office filed by a former worker.
Unit labour costs will rise as wages improve and productivity growth slows. (Productivity growth already seems to be slowing a bit in America.) Alternatively, the naturally buoyant spirits of corporate book-keepers will eventually catch up with them, and firms will make another round of massive write-offs laying the ground for another few years of booming profits.
The center is set up with rows of practice bars and stools facing a demonstration bar stocked with spirits.
Though in good spirits, all Mr Wei had with him was a battered suitcase full of his dirty laundry from prison.
But their spirits were even higher when they discovered that, along with each bottle of liquid nectar, two glasses had also been provided!
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The bond that Duncan formed with one of these dogs was more than friendship, like that between kindred spirits.
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Locals and guests are welcome to linger in the Rye Bar with its Churchill-esque leather seating and uber-cool selection of rare spirits.
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As for the fact that we hear the words in public more than we used to, I suggest we bring our sense of "dirty" into line with the rest of our modern come-as-you-are American spirits.
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