Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1879 |
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... living in Eastern barbarism , we could not con- ceive that a luminary whose very business it was to give light , could be a party to his own obscuration . We then looked with pity upon the ignorance of our ancestors , who had sung hymns ...
... living in Eastern barbarism , we could not con- ceive that a luminary whose very business it was to give light , could be a party to his own obscuration . We then looked with pity upon the ignorance of our ancestors , who had sung hymns ...
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... living form around him similarly trying to satisfy its hunger . There seemed to be a Spirit of Hunger abroad . And , at the same time , there was such a resist- ance to man's satisfaction of his need - the bird and fish so hard to get ...
... living form around him similarly trying to satisfy its hunger . There seemed to be a Spirit of Hunger abroad . And , at the same time , there was such a resist- ance to man's satisfaction of his need - the bird and fish so hard to get ...
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... living freight to the nether world . Akaanga , the slave of fearful Miru , mistress of the invisible world , infallibly catches all these unhappy spirits in his net and laves them to and fro in a lake . In these waters the captive ...
... living freight to the nether world . Akaanga , the slave of fearful Miru , mistress of the invisible world , infallibly catches all these unhappy spirits in his net and laves them to and fro in a lake . In these waters the captive ...
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... living centipedes ; but this is simply with the one end in view of appeasing her own pangs of hunger , for the object and effect of the draught is to cause the souls to drown themselves , it being apparently only after entire death that ...
... living centipedes ; but this is simply with the one end in view of appeasing her own pangs of hunger , for the object and effect of the draught is to cause the souls to drown themselves , it being apparently only after entire death that ...
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... living ! Upon the living shall the dead prey ! This menace shows that the Chaldæan and Babylonian belief in the vampyre , called Akhkharu in Assyrian , was fully developed at a very early date . Although the Hunger- demon was very fully ...
... living ! Upon the living shall the dead prey ! This menace shows that the Chaldæan and Babylonian belief in the vampyre , called Akhkharu in Assyrian , was fully developed at a very early date . Although the Hunger- demon was very fully ...
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ages Agni Ahriman amid ancient angel animal appear ascribed Azazel bear beautiful belief Brimir burning called character Chimæra christian dance darkness dead death deities demonolatry Demonology demons demons and devils desert devouring diseases dragon dread Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog hand haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy horse human hymns India Indra Jehovah king legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon mountain myth mythology nature night Odin origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent seven snake soul spirits stone story superstition survival temple teraphim terror thee thou tion tree tribes Typhon vampyre Vedic Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worship
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Seite 229 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 341 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Seite 344 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Seite 332 - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Seite 185 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
Seite 167 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Seite 81 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Seite 81 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Seite 332 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Seite 386 - My lord bishop, I here present you with the falchion wherewith the champion Conyers slew the worm, dragon, or fiery flying serpent, which destroyed man, woman, and child ; in memory of which, the king then reigning gave him the manor of Sockburn, to hold by this tenure, that upon the first entrance of every bishop into the county, this falchion should be presented.