Shakespeare's plays are known for their supernatural elements and figures. What might be considered supernatural about the events of the novel?

Shakespeare's plays are known for their supernatural elements and figures. What might be considered supernatural about the events of the novel? Who are the conduits for these mysterious forces and messages among the living and the dead?

Agnes is able to "read" the future in people's hands. She also physically feels the future (such as two children at her death bed). or discerning she was pregnant before physically knowing. Judith returns to their childhood home to "see" or "feel" Hamnet's ghost.

In addition to the items Marcia mentions, there's the whole switching of places between Judith and Hamnet. I'm not sure if the result was a supernatural experience or if Judith's recovery & Hamnet's death were a coincidence, but certainly the children thought it was a deliberate choice.

Marcia S and kimk mentioned most of the situations I noticed in the book. Also, there is the constant sense for Judith of Hamnet's presence to the point that she goes into the night to make one last contact with him and seems to feel that she has. Agnes, too, looks for Hamnet and tries to feel him near, while her husband looks into the audience to find his face.

The switching of places between Judith and Hamnet. The ghosts in the story were supernatural.

I agree with these posts, there were several supernatural elements and perhaps Shakespeare wrote more about this because of Agnes' nature.

I think Agnes’s ability to read people, sometimes discern the future, and her awareness of departed souls, was a psychic gift, more preternatural than supernatural. Perhaps Hamnet’s and Judith’s connection was similar, being two halves of a whole, as their father noticed with their handedness. To anyone at the time, it certainly would have seemed supernatural.