Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1879 |
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... mountain ( for those that ) die in multitudes . the one god , he will not urge.3 In this primitive fragment we find the hero of the mountain ( Noah ) , invoking both Bel and Nebo , aerial and infernal Intelligences , and Adar the ...
... mountain ( for those that ) die in multitudes . the one god , he will not urge.3 In this primitive fragment we find the hero of the mountain ( Noah ) , invoking both Bel and Nebo , aerial and infernal Intelligences , and Adar the ...
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... mountains . ' When the glaciers send down their torrents and flood the Rhone , it is the immemorial belief that the Devil may be sometimes seen swimming in it , with a sword in one hand and a golden globe in the other . Since it is con ...
... mountains . ' When the glaciers send down their torrents and flood the Rhone , it is the immemorial belief that the Devil may be sometimes seen swimming in it , with a sword in one hand and a golden globe in the other . Since it is con ...
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... the gods could not forge chains which might chain him ; he snapped them like straws and toppled over the mountains to which he was fastened . But the little Elves working underground 142 THE WOLF AGATHODEMON . made that chain so fine.
... the gods could not forge chains which might chain him ; he snapped them like straws and toppled over the mountains to which he was fastened . But the little Elves working underground 142 THE WOLF AGATHODEMON . made that chain so fine.
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... mountain nagas were , moreover , gifted with supernatural powers . . . . The Saviour and dispeller of the darkness of sin , poising himself in the air over the centre of the assembly , caused a terrifying darkness to these nagas ...
... mountain nagas were , moreover , gifted with supernatural powers . . . . The Saviour and dispeller of the darkness of sin , poising himself in the air over the centre of the assembly , caused a terrifying darkness to these nagas ...
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... mountains of Travancore there are tribes which are still generally believed to be on terms of especial familiarity with the devils of that region ; and the dwellers on the plains relate that on these mountains gigantic demons , sixteen ...
... mountains of Travancore there are tribes which are still generally believed to be on terms of especial familiarity with the devils of that region ; and the dwellers on the plains relate that on these mountains gigantic demons , sixteen ...
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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.