The traditional occult practices supposedly enable them to contact these hidden sides.

If that doesn't constitute an occult practice, I don't know what does.

Must be some sort of occult practices there.

"That's the most likely scenario, that they were up to some occult practices."

Mr. Brasset says he can divine the future through an obscure occult practice known as geomancy.

He stopped his occult practices, but continued to be subtly influenced by it in his drawings.

The second, that perhaps this vendetta might endanger Oscar, who was as involved in occult practices as any man alive.

He was an amateur astrologer and allegedly fond of other occult practices.

Since their magic is of the western variety, skilled in a wide variety of occult practices.

He burned the objects and called on his hearers to spurn occult practices.