Yet he was in truth only a man stricken by the demonof 'la bonne foi,' and, like many men devoured by the passion of spiritual honesty, in his secret heart he believed in his similitude to Christ.
What neither God nor Demon can do, men are incessantly at work to accomplish.
But no demon issued from the darkness, and the hermit laid this second mischance to the score of bad weather.
But the demon of unrest pursued him, and in November 1591 he was off again with the Duke of Mantua to Rome.
His eccentricity in later life amounted to insanity, and at last he gave himself up wholly to the demon of the gaming-table.
As he stood watching, he saw that a demon was dancing by himself, and, moreover, that the chief of the company was none too pleased with his very clumsy antics.
Thus spoke the spirit of the Death-Stone: "I am she who first, in Ind, was the demon to whom Prince Hazoku paid homage.
Having said these words he gave the Demon King into the monkey's keeping, and then proceeded through all the rooms of the castle, and set free the numerous prisoners he found there.
I am the demon that once dwelt in the breast of the Jewel Maiden!
All were destroyed except the Demon King himself, and he wisely resolved to surrender, and begged that his life might be spared.
Having uttered these words, the demon flung the wen at the right cheek of the old man, where it remained firmly fixed, and could not be removed.
The Goblin of Oyeyama In the reign of the Emperor Ichijo many dreadful stories were current in Kyoto in regard to a demon that lived on Mount Oye.
Once more the three deities appeared before them, and said to Raiko: "We have tied the hands and feet of the Demon fast, so you have nothing to fear.
The dog and the pheasant carried the treasure between them, while Momotaro led the Demon King.
The demon had also promised them that he would resuscitate those slain in battle; but, when they carried some of the dead to his temple for him to do this, he replied, with ridiculous excuses, that he could not do it.
The rebellious apostates consulted the demon as to what they should do; and in consequence resolved to put Father Francisco to death; and they proceeded to carry out this decision.
About midnight, gusts of cold wind began to moan amongst the stunted pines that surrounded our tents; then, gathering in force, this demon of the mountains howled round our tents, and snow came down in driven sheets.
But he looked fearlessly across the board, for there sat no grinning demon of temptation, nor remorse, nor fear.
He had won just a kiss and had paid the price of his love; and now waking, and in the calm of a conflict passed, he had won over the demon that had tempted him with the perfume of lilacs.
He knew that fear hath torment, but he had no conception by what means that demon can be exorcised.
Then terror and dismay take hold of him, till despair becomes insanity, and on the very day month fixed for the meeting with the demon bride, the victim dies the death of a raving lunatic, and is laid in the fatal graveyard of Truagh.
He could fight and conquer any demon who attacked him, and any man whom he met.
A man with unusually keen and alarming eyes is said to be possessed by a demon (hi-i).
To discover the author of the spell, or the god or demon who has brought the trouble and must be propitiated, the services of a diviner are necessary.
Do you see that demon passing and repassing in front of the fire?
Tis the demon Sidragasum who hath the power to make wenches dance stark naked.
Now the least contact with that Egyptian of the demon would make you the vassal of Satan.
I tell you, that 'tis the spirit Sabnac, the grand marquis, the demon of fortifications.
It is always the same fibre which vibrates, the tenderest and most sensitive; but instead of an angel caressing it, it is a demon who is wrenching at it.
God, who has not created man and the demon of equal force.
As long as the demon sent to attack me only vague shadows of women who passed occasionally before my eyes in church, in the streets, in the fields, and who hardly recurred to my dreams, I easily vanquished him.
The other end of the thread which the demon had attached to my wings he had fastened to his foot.
Goody Falourdel, have you brought that leaf into which the crown which the demon gave you was transformed?
There are two books which describe with considerable detail a like experience in China and Japan respectively: Demon Possession and Allied Themes, by the Rev.
The suspicious-looking stranger was the demon himself, who had carried away his victim.
He immediately called the demon prince, who appeared in the form of a handsome gentleman; and she then renounced her baptism and Christianity, signed the agreement with her blood, and received the demon's mark.
From this time Louis Gaufridi felt an extreme pleasure in reading the magical book, and it always had the effect of bringing the demon to attend upon him.
What perfidious demon inspired me when I yielded to another than to him the right to love me?
Sister Magdalen, or rather the demon within her, gave information of certain marks on his body which had been placed there by the Evil One; and on search they were found exactly as described.
At a late hour of the night the party groped their way up the ravine by the light of a lantern, and bearing a basket with provisions for exorcising the demon of hunger so soon as the other demons should be laid in the Red Sea.
While they were thus employed the good dominie drew on one side and made a vigorous onslaught on the basket, by way of exorcising the demon of hunger which was raging in his entrails.
But your sister is also in sorrow," whispered some demon into the ear of my spirit, "and how can you be happy?
He was even becoming celebrated in it, when the demon of intemperance made his acquaintance, and dragged him down to the lowest depths of poverty and despair.
A demon of the air shalt thou be until time shall cease!
She particularly wanted to ascertain whether the demon had power to carry off the soul of her child.
He seemed possessed by the demon of strife, and lifted now one foot and now the other, as if to beg that his arms might be put on.
Like Socrates I, too, had a demon to whom I referred my doubtful counsels, doing his will, and obeying blindly when I felt a voice within me telling me to forbear.
After various ceremonies of sprinkling himself with earth and water and gomez, he drove the evil demon from his head and body and limbs, and could now approach his fellow men once more and go near sacred fire.
He, the traveler—or, possibly she—becomes possessed by a demon for which there is no other name than “things.
Or was it that the grisly aspect of the scene woke within me that slumbering demon of the imagination which is the bane of natures like mine.
A demon or a witch might sit there for a half-hour and see, without so much as craning her neck, all that went on in the cellar below.
I stood bewildered, not knowing what to do, while the flame burned and the chant went up before the effigy of Huitzel, of the demon Huitzel awakened after many years of sleep.
Because of the worship of thesedemon gods the people of Anahuac is destined to destruction.
Even then I knew it again; it was the idol of the god Tezcat that the Spaniards had torn from its shrine, and like an avenging demon it rushed straight on to me.
The hour of the demon gods was upon them indeed, but now they reaped their last red harvest, and it was rich.
Here he ceased suddenly, for the demon who tormented him struck him across the mouth saying, 'Silence, dog.
The demon obeys, and goes to promenade in the street at the point most frequented by the students, but suddenly, upon another order, he quits the body, and the corpse falls in the midst of the terrified promenaders.
The blood of the white man in our veins could not but curdle at the contemplation of an atrocity which nothing but the brain of a demon could have engendered.
Aherman In the mythology of the Easterns, Aherman was accounted the Demon of Discord.
If the parents were not at hand to make an immediate offer, the magistrates did not fail to select those who were most fair and promising, that the demon might not be defrauded of his dues.
There no mercy was shown her; the plague-demon was bidden to smite her with manifold diseases, and she was kept imprisoned in Hades like the ordinary dead.
Like the Urim and Thummim, they were hung upon the breast; and in the Epic of the Creation, Tiamat is described as delivering them to her demon husband Kingu, who thereby became the acknowledged ruler of the world.
More than one elemental spirit or demon had gone to his making and there was consequently no single sanctuary in which his cult had been handed down from the beginning of time.
At times in the form of an evil demon it seeks alleviation of its torments by entering the body of a man or animal, whom it drives to murder and madness.
The Christians, he adds, admit the miraculous powers of the Shekh equally with the Mohammedans, only they explain them as due to a demon who clothes himself in a serpent's form.
The lil (or rather the Zi) who inhabits it is the mother of mankind, even though it is also the home of the demon who plagues them with disease.
The ordinary utukku, however, had no human ancestry; it was a demon pure and simple, which sat upon the neck of the sufferer and inflicted upon him pain and death.
So at this very moment he promised to avenge himself, and an idea occurred to him which could only have occurred to a demon of wickedness like himself.
This man, ordinarily with so much self-command, so calm, and cunning, forgot the cold calculations of his profound dissimulation when the demon of lust obscured his mind.
