The magical or demoniac effect of the fellow-being is made to disappear by the feeling being realised as a definite projection of the absolute unconscious.
There seems to lurk something of the beast of prey, something really demoniac in her glance.
This fear is a demoniac fear of the dominants of the collective unconscious.
She turned of a deadly paleness, but a demoniac joy still gleamed in her eyes.
Few or no words were spoken; and the silent ship, as if manned by painted sailors in wax, day after day tore on through all the swift madness and gladness of the demoniac waves.
Agnosticism (me judice) says: There is no good evidence of the existence of a demoniac spiritual world, and much reason for doubting it.
But, if that story is discredited, all the other stories of demoniac possession fall under suspicion.
But more trying than this antique garb is thedemoniac mask of pantomime, which is as a diver's helmet ill provided with appliances for admitting air or permitting outlook.
Old Death, turning a savage glance upon the woman, and then fixing a look of demoniac hatred upon the lad, who was already leading the servants into the adjoining rooms.
His cold, grey eyes sank not beneath the reproachful and indignant glance of that outraged lady; and a smile of demoniac triumph again played upon his lip.
The Hebrew law-makers did not make a concession to a lower form of religion by endorsing magical remedies, but merely shared the contemporary belief in the demoniac origin of disease.
Gassner was a believer in the demoniactheory of disease, and sought to expel the evil spirit by chasing it from one part of the body to another, finally driving it out by word of command, from the fingers or toes.
The belief indemoniac possession and the belief in witches were later developments from this same doctrine.
When Melville sat down to write, always at his knee stood that chosen emissary of Satan, the comic spirit: a demoniacfamiliar never long absent from his pages.
In ancient and mediæval times, of course, madness, when not abhorred as a demoniac possession, was revered as a holy and mysterious visitation.
He organized himself into hideous nightmare shapes, and charged wildly over me as I slept, and filled all the air of that mysterious slumber-land with the noise of his demoniac neighing.
It was a series of demoniac chuckles, that's what it was--demoniac chuckles.
The extent to which this belief in demoniac possession was disseminated during the first centuries of the Christian era is shown by the fact that a number of persons busied themselves with the cure of this affection.
And with a demoniac yell he stood clutching and tugging at his hair with both hands, his teeth clenched, his eyes fixed and almost bursting from their sockets, foam bubbling from his lips--a raving madman!
And outside the storm-wind whistles indemoniac fury.
Is this what was formerly called demoniac possession?
I have heard my father and the vicar arguing learnedly that the time for witchcraft has passed away, with that of miracles, demoniac possessions, and the casting out of devils.
Other gods were depicted with human bodies and the heads of birds, serpents, and crocodiles, thus forming links between the archaic demoniac and the later anthropomorphic deities.
But although Ea became a beneficent deity, as a result of the growth of civilization, he had also a demoniac form, and had to be propitiated.
All the elder gods had demoniac traits like the ghosts of human beings.
Yet, instead of turning to antiquity, he penned Brand, one of the few great epics since Milton and Goethe, and then as a satiric pendant let loose the demoniac powers of his ironic fantasy in Peer Gynt.
Only at the grate as she burns the manuscript and in the outburst of wild music preceding her suicide are the demoniac forces of her nature unloosed.
The inspiration of evil had taken demoniac possession of him.
This led to the strange subject of demoniac possession.
Here, the demoniac was violently agitated; but the agitation left no lasting bad effect; he was restored to perfect health and soundness.
We here learn that the demoniacwas both blind and dumb.
At last the savages, howling in frenzied merriment around him, and raising new shouts whenever they could force from him new shrieks of agony, weary with the demoniac pastime, hewed off one of his arms and threw it into the fire.
The demoniac pirates drove the whole population, men, women, and children, into these churches, and imprisoned them there.
And he rewarded the demoniac leader of thisdemoniac gang with the honors of a baronetcy; and appointed him governor over one of the most important colonies of Great Britain.
The prisoners, well instructed in the cruelty and the inflexible will of this demoniac pirate, sent the most pathetic appeals to the admiral to save them from this dreadful fate.
Surrounded by the oaths and the clamor ofdemoniac men they passed to the seat of final judgment.
In the delirium of these demoniac orgies gold watches were fried for a costly breakfast, and were served up with boiled pearls and jewels.
This demoniac man had sense enough to abandon his cups, until his brain was sufficiently clear to organize, even to its details, the plan for a new expedition.
But for a time he lost the control of his demoniac crew.
The capture of the governor, for whom a great ransom could be expected to save him from death by torture, and the capture of the females, were deemed matters of the greatest moment by these demoniac pirates.
He therefore posted one of the most demoniac of the pirates, with a match, in the powder-room.
Some of the sailors declared that in the night they had seen the schooner under full sail in the clouds, passing over their heads, and that they had heard shouts of merriment from the demoniac crew.
When the tidings reached him that the Spaniards had regained the island, he lost no time in unavailing regrets, but immediately turned, with demoniac energy, to other enterprises.
And as they were leaving His presence a dumb demoniac was brought to Him.
At that time a demoniac was brought to Him, blind and dumb; and He cured him, so that the dumb man could speak and see.
The expression upon the Mormon's features, as he parted from the fire, was one of demoniac significance.
Uttering a peal of demoniac laughter, the Indian held the point of the knife close to my forehead--as if about to drive the blade into my eyes!
The wolf-dog had come again like a demoniac spirit to undo her plans!
Facing him, she saw that demoniac glitter of yellow rising momently brighter in his eyes, and he was smiling.
Like a period to his sentence, a gun barked outside, there was a howl of demoniac pain and rage, and then a scream that would tingle in the ear of Doctor Randall Byrne till his dying day.
With demoniacwhoops of delight, the contestants fled from the room.
I threatened, Rob coaxed, and Ptolemy cuffed, but every time I started to leave and jerk him after me, he uttered such demoniacyells I was forced to stop.
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