An ancient legend tells how a saint saw his soul carried by daemons into hell, because he had secularised Church property, and a more modern historian(545) has ascribed his death to his having hesitated to defend the Pope.
The minds of men were filled with images of the approaching catastrophe, and innumerable legends of visible daemons were industriously circulated.
Daemons were said not unfrequently to have entered into the profligate.
As he drew near the garden, seventy daemonsof various forms came forth to meet him, and reproached him for disturbing them in their home.
Dagobert was snatched from the very arms ofdaemons by St. Denis, St. Maurice, and St. Martin.
The god Apollo was holding his court at his deserted shrine, and his attendant daemons were recounting the temptations they had devised against the Christians.
Daemons with hooks of red-hot iron plunged souls alternately into fire and ice.
They worshipped powers or daemons in indefinite numbers, but with no individual names: represented, if at all, by emblems or symbols, very rarely in bodily human form.
The dethronement of gods ordaemons was usually not sudden or revolutionary.
Daemons who had heretofore held a high place in the fear or affection of hunting tribes gradually lost their supremacy or were neglected.
These daemons seem to have been supposed to be almost innumerable.
Heaven-sent daemons showed them in a vision to my disciple Ammonius, when he was full of the divinity and lost in ecstasy, and I have had them made from his instructions.
Such a surprising experience confused old Santa for a moment, and when he had collected his senses he found that the wicked Daemons had pulled him from the snowdrift and bound him tightly with many coils of the stout rope.
Well, these Daemons of the Caves, thinking they had great cause to dislike old Santa Claus, held a meeting one day to discuss the matter.
Woe to theDaemons of the Caves if this mighty army of vengeance ever met them!
So the Daemons laid their plans and awaited the arrival of Christmas Eve.
This wonderful army was led by Wisk, Peter, Nuter, and Kilter, who had assembled it to rescue Santa Claus from captivity and to punish the Daemons who had dared to take him away from his beloved children.
We have done a mighty clever thing, we Daemons of the Caves!
But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy.
Indeed, the Daemons could not tempt old Santa Claus in any way.
Their grief is likely to make the children selfish and envious and hateful, and if they come to the Caves of the Daemons today I shall get a chance to lead some of them to my Cave of Repentance.
And, realizing that while the children's saint had so many powerful friends it was folly to oppose him, the Daemons never again attempted to interfere with his journeys on Christmas Eve.
As for the wicked Daemons of the Caves, they were filled with anger and chagrin when they found that their clever capture of Santa Claus had come to naught.
Had there been many such mistakes the Daemons would have accomplished their evil purpose and made the children unhappy.
Among the Pagans the theory of Euhemerus, who believed the gods to be but deified men, had been the stronghold of the Sceptics, while the Platonic notion of daemons was adopted by the more believing philosophers.
Justin Martyr declared that it was by the instigation of daemons that it had been made a capital offence to read them.
The first aspired to the Deity as the source and model of virtue, admitted daemons or subordinate spiritual agents acting upon mankind, and explained and purified, in no hostile spirit, the popular religions.
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus having expelled the daemonsfrom an idol temple, the priest, finding his means of subsistence destroyed, came to the saint, imploring him to permit the oracles to be renewed.
The theory of daemons completely superseded the old Stoical naturalism, which regarded the different Pagan divinities as allegories or personifications of the Divine attributes.
Plutarch, in his treatise on the decline of the oracles, attributes that decline sometimes to the death of the daemons (who were believed to be mortal), and sometimes to the exhaustion of the vapours.
The first was that they were inspired by daemons or spirits of a degree lower than the gods.
Above all gods ordaemons of creation and division, he beheld by faith in a perfect man a supreme God.
That Sokrates did not believe in the Gods or in the Daemons generally recognised by his countrymen: 2.
Also A Collection of several Authentick Relations of Strange Apparitions of Daemons and Spectres, and Fascinations of Witches, never before Printed.
The Muse the truth uncolored speaking) The Daemons are self-seeking: Their fierce and limitary will Draws men to their likeness still.
Close, close to men, Like undulating layer of air, Right above their heads, The potent plain of Daemons spreads.
But Cupid wears another face, Born into Daemonsless divine: His roses bleach apace, His nectar smacks of wine.
Where is the proof, said I, that daemons may not be subjected to the controul of men?
As to an alliance with evil geniuses, the power and the malice of daemonshave been a thousand times exemplified in human beings.
The daemons who came to the aid of mythology in the Antonine age, were composite beings, with a double nature corresponding to the two worlds of the Divine and human which they linked together.
Linking the two worlds together by their composite nature, the daemons differ in degrees of virtue; some are more akin to the Divine perfection, others more tainted by the evil of the lower world.
In anxious quest of any link of sympathy between this world and the next, Maximus tries to fortify his doctrine of daemons by stories of apparitions.
The beatified souls become daemons or good spirits, ranging over the universe, and manifesting themselves in dreams and omens and ghostly monitions, sometimes becoming even visible to the eye.
His school, for we can hardly speak of himself, connected the doctrine of daemons with the doctrines of metempsychosis and purification and atonement in another world.
The chief passages in Plato where the daemons are mentioned are suffused with such mythic colour that it would perhaps be rash to extract from them any sharp dogmatic theory.
Plutarch also justifies his theory of daemons by an appeal to the authority of Hesiod, of Pythagoras and Plato, Xenocrates and Chrysippus.
And the Christian controversialist, with as firm a faith in daemons as the pagan, turned that doctrine against the faith which it was invented to support.
To Maximus the daemons are rather angelic ministers, sent forth to advise and succour weak mortal men.
But the bad daemons who were called in to save the ancient cults proved dangerous allies in the end.
The daemons are beings half divine, half human; they are godlike in power and intelligence, they are human in liability to the passions engendered by the flesh.
Wherever Jesus Christ has been, thedaemons have gone.
Even the daemons they dismissed to irrelevance and non-entity.
That put the daemons into their right place, and by and by they vanished, dropped out, died of sheer inanition and neglect.
The dangerous gulf of Corrivrekin lies between the islands of Jura and Scarba, and the superstition of the islanders has tenanted its shelves and eddies with all the fabulous monsters and daemons of the ocean.
According to the legend, he consented to be buried alive, in order to propitiate certain daemons of the soil, who obstructed the attempts of Columba to build a chapel.
They knew that Satan had broken his chain, And with millions of daemons in his train, Was ranging over the world again.
Argos, Corinth, Crete Hear, and from their mountain thrones The daemons and the nymphs repeat The harmony.
Daemons often go to war with him to obtain entrance into his paradise, and he can only fight them through the agency of an earthly hero (Brockhaus, Somadeva Bhatta, i.
The gods and daemons have made me their water-carrier; and in toiling up and down from the river to their mountain (6) so many times, I have worn out all these pairs of boots.
But as he was hungry and ate fast, the hiccups took him; and then, before he had time to put the bread up again into his wallet, suddenly the seven daemons of the country of the Mongols came upon him, riding on their horses.
When he got back to the hillock, however, he found the seven daemons lying dead, and their horses grazing beside them.
All these daemons now danced and feasted together with great howling and shouting.
I must now undertake certain practices of devotion to appease the daemons of hunger; give me alms to enable me to fulfil them.
The King was so pleased that the seven daemonswere slain, that he would not let him be put on his trial any more.
Nor had they long settled themselves before another herd of daemons came trooping towards the palm-tree from the northern side of the steppe, and these wore paper caps and rode on horses wearing paper coverings.
Thus provided, he went forth towards the region of the North, among the Mongols, to seek for the seven daemons who rode on horses.
So the daemons answered, "It is well spoken;" and giving the boots to the Prince, they set off to go to the far end of the road.
These last include daemons (incorrectly regarded by Christian and other theologies as being in all cases evil, and called demons); and other like spirits, such as those which Dr.
Next to these Gods, a wise man will do service to the daemons or spirits, and then to the heroes, and after them will follow the sacred places of private and ancestral Gods, having their ritual according to law.
And like the Fairy-Folk, the daemons of the air live not on the gross substance of food, but on its finer invisible essences, conveyed to them most easily on the altar-fire.
Drave, or whether he was carried by the avenging daemons from the field of battle to his destined place of eternal tortures.
In the Jewish and Christian system, all daemons are infernal spirits; and all commerce with them is idolatry, apostasy &c.
Footnote 24: When Julian, in a momentary panic, made the sign of the cross the daemons instantly disappeared, (Greg.
On either side, beyond this consecrated ground, the heretics and the daemons lurked in ambush to surprise and devour the unhappy wanderer.
As long as they believed that daemons transformed themselves into an animal's shape, they said, "The devil croaked at me this morning in the shape of a raven; and therefore my horse fell with me.
Thou shalt not be carried off by the daemons till to-morrow.
And the beast with its daemons fled away, so that in its haste it fell and died.
The daemons suddenly became invisible, and the pain of his body forthwith ceased, and the building became quite whole.
For though the shadow of the Lord never worked a miracle, the shadow of the great Peter both loosed death, and drove out diseases, and put daemons to flight.
And they wondering went their way, for they saw that evendaemons were afraid of Antony.
All beings therein (save daemons and Cyclops) are Christians, even to the very birds, and keep the festivals of the Church as eternal laws of nature.
The lurking daemons sat to him, and the saint who saw the daemons; and the metaphysical elements took form.
It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me, whom the Daemons oppose, so that it is not possible for me to live with these.
It became quite intelligible that many Alexandrians should fear to fling a stone lest it might hit one of the good daemons of which the air was full-- a spirit of light perhaps, or a protecting spirit.
The conception of the Supreme Being was complicated in a manner closely resembling the idea of the Christian Trinity, and all the subordinatedaemons were classified into good and evil geniuses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daemons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
