Supernatural character may be impressed on these either by phenomena inconsistent with their common nature, (compare chap. 4, § 16)

This may be done in two ways. First, by effecting some change in the appearance of the creature inconsistent with its actual nature, as bygiving it colossal size, or unnatural color, or material, as of gold, or silver, or flame, instead of flesh, or by taking away its property of matter altogether, and forming it of light or shade,oil paintings online, or in an intermediate step, of cloud, or vapor; or explaining it by terrible concomitant circumstances, as of wounds in the body, or strange lights and seemings round about it; or by joining of two bodies together as in angels' wings. Of all which means of attaining supernatural character (which though, in their nature ordinary and vulgar, are yet effective and very glorious in mighty hands) we have already seen the limits in speaking of the imagination. oil painting on canvas