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Definition of Fortean in English: Forteanadjective ˈfɔːtɪənˈfôrdēən Relating to or denoting paranormal phenomena. （与）超自然现象（有关）的 Fortean phenomena like spontaneous combustion Example sentencesExamples - We'll be back next week with more UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from around the planet Earth, brought to you by ‘the paper that goes home - UFO Roundup.’
- The timing couldn't be better: with the once mighty X-Files threatening to go out with a whimper, the mainstream needs a Fortean sugar-shock more than ever.
- One of the most prominent and important practicing Fortean writers living today is Loren Coleman.
- The meta-plot of 24 contains hints of this whilst the meta-plot of Alias is looking more and more Fortean with every passing episode.
- As I subscribe to the e-mail Fortean list compiled by Daev Walsh in Dublin, I received this report of a UFO sighting in my local town, Belfast.
- Brunvand describes different approaches to contemporary legends, including the Freudian, the Fortean, the memetic, the linguistic, and the sociological.
- There are many other Fortean groups, as well, but it is worth noting that Fort opposed the idea of a Fortean Society.
- A more traditional Fortean publication is the magazine Fate, which has been published since 1948, founded by science fiction magazine editor Raymond A. Palmer.
- Realising belatedly that I was lost deep in a jungle of Fortean unreality, I decided that it was high time to cut and slash my way through the undergrowth and return to safety, sanity and scepticism.
- I also discovered, many years later, that Fort directed that his notes and papers were to be made available to Fortean researchers.
- The current phenomenon in Jerusalem marks the first time a Fortean flow has taken place at a long-established religious site.
- Eclipse or no, we'll be back in seven days with more UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from around the planet Earth, brought to you by ‘the paper that goes home - UFO Roundup.’
- People who look into these things are called Forteans, after Charles Fortean, a writer in the 1920's, and there are Fortean societies that keep track of these things.
- For instance, paranormal true believers frequently use false dichotomies in arguments about the validity of the anecdotal evidence offered to support claims of ghost sightings, alien visitations, and other Fortean phenomena.
- Governor Teddy Roosevelt plays a big role, as well as a young street urchin who helps Fort, a kid who inspired by his Fortean adventures turns out to be a fiction writer later in life.
- There were many, though, who remembered seeing such a photograph, or a photocopy of it, in the hands of Ivan T. Sanderson, the famous naturalist and Fortean author who died in 1973.
Derivativesplural noun It was really the reason I left the study of Forteana. Example sentencesExamples - In Forteana, the phenomenon in Benson would fall under the heading of phantom sniper rather than UFO encounter.
- The film-scriptwriter Ben Hecht coined the term ‘forteana’ (or ‘Forteana’ if you prefer) to refer to this field of study.
- The Fayette Factor is the strangest phenomenon yet in Forteana.
- This type of phenomenon is called a flow in Forteana.
Origin1970s: from the name of Charles H. Fort (1874–1932), American student of paranormal phenomena. Definition of Fortean in US English: Forteanadjectiveˈfôrdēən Relating to or denoting paranormal phenomena. （与）超自然现象（有关）的 Fortean phenomena like spontaneous combustion Example sentencesExamples - People who look into these things are called Forteans, after Charles Fortean, a writer in the 1920's, and there are Fortean societies that keep track of these things.
- Governor Teddy Roosevelt plays a big role, as well as a young street urchin who helps Fort, a kid who inspired by his Fortean adventures turns out to be a fiction writer later in life.
- For instance, paranormal true believers frequently use false dichotomies in arguments about the validity of the anecdotal evidence offered to support claims of ghost sightings, alien visitations, and other Fortean phenomena.
- The timing couldn't be better: with the once mighty X-Files threatening to go out with a whimper, the mainstream needs a Fortean sugar-shock more than ever.
- A more traditional Fortean publication is the magazine Fate, which has been published since 1948, founded by science fiction magazine editor Raymond A. Palmer.
- As I subscribe to the e-mail Fortean list compiled by Daev Walsh in Dublin, I received this report of a UFO sighting in my local town, Belfast.
- Brunvand describes different approaches to contemporary legends, including the Freudian, the Fortean, the memetic, the linguistic, and the sociological.
- There were many, though, who remembered seeing such a photograph, or a photocopy of it, in the hands of Ivan T. Sanderson, the famous naturalist and Fortean author who died in 1973.
- There are many other Fortean groups, as well, but it is worth noting that Fort opposed the idea of a Fortean Society.
- The meta-plot of 24 contains hints of this whilst the meta-plot of Alias is looking more and more Fortean with every passing episode.
- The current phenomenon in Jerusalem marks the first time a Fortean flow has taken place at a long-established religious site.
- Realising belatedly that I was lost deep in a jungle of Fortean unreality, I decided that it was high time to cut and slash my way through the undergrowth and return to safety, sanity and scepticism.
- One of the most prominent and important practicing Fortean writers living today is Loren Coleman.
- Eclipse or no, we'll be back in seven days with more UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from around the planet Earth, brought to you by ‘the paper that goes home - UFO Roundup.’
- I also discovered, many years later, that Fort directed that his notes and papers were to be made available to Fortean researchers.
- We'll be back next week with more UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from around the planet Earth, brought to you by ‘the paper that goes home - UFO Roundup.’
Origin1970s: from the name of Charles H. Fort (1874–1932), American student of paranormal phenomena. |