otherworld

Noun

Meaning

an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality

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Examples

But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest. "Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you. P. C. Cast

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, "many scholars" see a link between stories in "Irish-Celtic mythology" about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail. Source: Internet

As noted earlier, Samhain was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld could more easily be crossed. Source: Internet

The scene begins with the pair in an arena in one of the other sections of Otherworld, a place known as Sevalith, a realm populated by "blood-drinking socialites" that on Earth we would call vampires, but who have no such word in their language. Source: Internet

Nera returns him to the gallows and then follows a fairy host through a portal into the Otherworld, where he is trapped until the next Samhain. Source: Internet

However, Lughnasadh itself is a celebration of Lugh's triumph over the spirits of the Otherworld who had tried to keep the harvest for themselves. Source: Internet

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