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Definition of Demons
1. demon [n] - See also: demon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demons
Literary usage of Demons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"If he had been acquainted with the nature of demons, and with their several
operations, whether led on to them by the conjurations of those who are skilled ..."
2. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... whose end is generally the annihilation of personal individuality. \ Porphyry: "
On the Good and Bad demons. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In ethnic custom one of the universally employed means of averting the harmful
action of demons is the use of the magic word or act. ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"Spirits regarded as personal causes of Phenomena of the World—Pervading Spirits
as good and evil demons affecting roan—Spirits manifest in \ Dreams and ..."
5. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"The demons speak in their own persons, with supernatural knowledge, and they are
directly addressed by Christ. Jesus recognizes Satanic agency in these ..."
6. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"29-32 ; ghosts, gods, and demons hammered into a tree or bunged up in a board, p.
... 40 ; the dread of demons widely spread and deeply rooted, pp. ..."
7. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"When the demons tried to plunge the knight into the caldrons with the ...
The demons now hurried the knight to the top of a lofty mountain, and showed him a ..."
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