Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1881 |
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... peaceful citizen of the world and a cultured thinker , able to turn his past super- stition into present wisdom , to distil good from evil , and make a moral of the Devil himself . PREFACE . THREE Friars , says a legend , hid.
... peaceful citizen of the world and a cultured thinker , able to turn his past super- stition into present wisdom , to distil good from evil , and make a moral of the Devil himself . PREFACE . THREE Friars , says a legend , hid.
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Moncure Daniel Conway. PREFACE . THREE Friars , says a legend , hid themselves near the Witch Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils ; but the Chief of these , discovering the friars , said ' Reve- rend Brothers , our army is ...
Moncure Daniel Conway. PREFACE . THREE Friars , says a legend , hid themselves near the Witch Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils ; but the Chief of these , discovering the friars , said ' Reve- rend Brothers , our army is ...
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... legend.'1 The Persian demon Aeshma - the Asmodeus of the Book of Tobit -appears with the same characteristic of lameness in the ' Diable Boiteux ' of Le Sage . The christian devil's clubbed or cloven foot is notorious . Even the horns ...
... legend.'1 The Persian demon Aeshma - the Asmodeus of the Book of Tobit -appears with the same characteristic of lameness in the ' Diable Boiteux ' of Le Sage . The christian devil's clubbed or cloven foot is notorious . Even the horns ...
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... legend told by Hugh Miller of an avenging meteoric demon . A shipmaster who had moored his vessel near Morial's Den , amused himself by watching the lights of the scattered farmhouses . After all the rest had gone out one light lingered ...
... legend told by Hugh Miller of an avenging meteoric demon . A shipmaster who had moored his vessel near Morial's Den , amused himself by watching the lights of the scattered farmhouses . After all the rest had gone out one light lingered ...
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... legend or characteristic as well as in their names , the evil phenomenon to which each was attached as an explanation assigned the real form and work with which he or she was associated in popular superstition . We therefore find in the ...
... legend or characteristic as well as in their names , the evil phenomenon to which each was attached as an explanation assigned the real form and work with which he or she was associated in popular superstition . We therefore find in the ...
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