Occult (disambiguation)
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Occult refers to secret or hidden knowledge, usually of a mystical nature.
- For the Wikipedia Portal on the Occult, click here
Occult may also refer to:
- Occultism, occult practises
- Occultists, occult practitioners
- Occultation, in astronomy, referring to the event in which one celestial body passes in front of another, blocking it from view
- Social occultation, in sociology, referring to selective ignoring of a social group or their issues
- Doctor Occult, in DC Comics a magic-using detective character
- Fecal occult blood, in medicine, a term for blood present in the feces that is not visibly apparent
- anything hidden, such as an occult fracture
- An occulting characteristic light, in coastal navigation and pilotage, which has its light illuminated for longer periods than not illuminated.
- "The occulation", in Islam the name given to the disappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi
