Supernatural

We also cali a living person uncanny, usually when we ascribe evil intentions to
him. But that is not ali; we must not only credit him with bad intentions but must
attribute to these intentions capacity to achieve their aim in virtue of certain special
powers. A good in-stance of this is the "Gettatore," that uncanny figure of Roman
superstition which Schaeffer, with intuitive poetic feeling and profound
psychoanalytic knowledge, has transformed into a sympathetic figure in his Josef
Montfort (1918). But the question of these secret powers brings us back again to the
realm of animism. it was the pious Gretchen's intuition that Mephi-stopheles
possessed secret power of this kind that made him so uncanny to her.