I would just stick with "supernatural being" or "supernatural entity" and explain the nuance. The composite word already implies some superstructure on the natural order - they are part of the hierarchy of being. I think this is how scholars refer to the "yogini" in Indian studies ... a bit like normal women witches but with supernatural powers, characteristics .
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I used the terms 'trans-human entities' in my thesis to try and get round that same problem
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>Hi, Jenny & All -
>
>
>Apologies for the delay.
>
>The earliest instances of the term "non-ordinary beings" that I have been able
>to locate thus far date back to articles found in the 1987 publication listed
>below :
>
>"Cultural Uniformity and Diversity in Micronesia", by Kokuritsu Minzokugaku
>Hakubutsukan
>- in:
>Issue 21 of *Senri Ethnological Studies* Iwao Ushijima, Kenʼichi Sudō ( Editors
>) National Museum of Ethnology, 1987.
>
>"Song and Cosmology on Satawal"
>by Shuzo Ishimori
>- in:
>Issue 21 of *Senri Ethnological Studies* Iwao Ushijima, Kenʼichi Sudō ( Editors
>) National Museum of Ethnology, 1987.
>( Freely Download the .PDF here :
>http://tinyurl.com/pvghb8p )
>
>I still have no idea who used the term first, but it would appear that it has
>been in use among some ethnologists for a little over a generation and so it is
>( hopefully ) "legit", if not venerable.
>
>Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
>- Khem Caigan
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>-Dr. Simon Forman
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>On 6/12/2015 5:20 PM, Jenny Butler doth schreibble:
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I am currently writing an article on Irish fairy belief and folk
>> religion. I am trying to avoid terms like 'supernatural' and the
>> consequent cosmological separation between 'natural' and
>> 'super-natural'. I don't wish to use 'spiritual being' as this has an
>> association of non-physical and not all of the beings I'm discussing
>> are described as non-physical (in that they are flesh and blood).
>> 'Other-than-human' suggests a superiority of human beings above other
>> beings and also includes a whole range of creatures (animals, birds,
>> insects, bacteria). I came across the description 'non-ordinary beings'
>> and I wonder who coined this term. Does anyone on the list know?
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Jenny
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