Heresy and sorcery were now regarded as correlates, like two agencies resting on and serviceable to the demoniacal powers, and were therefore treated in the same way as offences to be punished with torture and the stake.
Such a man belongs rather to the kind demoniacal than the kind human; yet so long as nothing occurs giving to his possible an occasion to embody itself in the actual, he may live honoured, and die respected.
Spiritual insanity, cupidity, cruelty, and possibly immediate demoniacal temptation had long been working in and on a mind that had now ceased almost to distinguish between the real and the unreal.
The earl turned and saw him, cast on him a look of almost demoniacal hate, put the glass to his lips and drank off its contents, then threw himself back on his pillows.
Then, with a suddenness that was appalling, the insane cackle of a woodrail shattered the silence with its demoniacal cries.
By the aid of its demoniacal glitter Bajazet could see the opponent's army.
Then he sprang up from his seat and grasped the iron bars of the cage, and burst out ravingly, "Oh, you demoniacal beast, Timur!
Foreman fells us that everywhere in the archipelago he found mothers teaching their little ones to look on their white rulers as demoniacal beings, evil spirits, or at least something to be dreaded.
Special objections are urged, however, against the belief in demoniacal possession.
The case of his son is among those which prove that demoniacal possession did not imply the exceptional guilt of its victims, for though still young, he has suffered long.
We do not, for example, understand the nature of demoniacal possession by a mere collation of cases.
In both the Old and New Testament the belief in demoniacal agency was endorsed.
The Delhan is also a demoniacal being, inhabiting the islands of the seas, having the form of a man, and riding on an ostrich.
How, for instance, could this account for the deeply demoniacal nature of old Lizzie Kolken as exhibited in the following pages?
Herne's triumphant and demoniacal laugh was heard as he scoured with the swiftness of the wind down the long glade.
All Wyat's efforts to disengage himself were vain, and a wild, demoniacal laugh, echoed by a chorus of voices, proclaimed him in the power of Herne the Hunter.
War is so tigerish in its ruthlessness, so demoniacal in its treatment of ethical principles, so un-Christian in matter and in method, that it appears impossible to characterize any participation as righteous.
So contrary is it to Christian teachings that for a time the churches in one district in China set apart a day each week for special prayer that this demoniacal evil might be divinely conquered.
No preconceived idea must be allowed to interfere with our investigation of the deranged spiritual function, any more than the old ideas of demoniacal possession must be allowed to interfere with our study of epilepsy.
The demoniacal enchantment forthwith ceased, the body became foul, and Charlemagne allowed it to be buried.
The demoniacal half is far less vigorous, more supine, less crowded than in other churches of the same period.
She has a demoniacal force which would always make you win, whatever game we played.
Why should she behave so to him, this foreigner with her demoniacal new ideas, who cared nothing about the world, who would have nothing to do with marriage, who lived with a painter as his mistress!
These words had a fantastically-demoniacal sound, as if one had said “the horde of savages”.
In the imagination of the people this kind of troops assumed a demoniacal shape.
He kissed her, again and again, and her wet lips roused in him all the demoniacalpassions of his nature.
Frantically she tried to remove the heavy bolt when she was paralyzed by a demoniacal laugh that issued behind her and swooning she fell at the feet of the man whose name she bore.
And they saw the illusion which the demoniacal goblin had cast over them.
The same consistency calls for credulity as to the demoniacal elevation of Simon Magus, and the broomstick riding of the witches whose supernatural levitation was credited by Lord Bacon and Sir Matthew Hale, not to speak of Addison and Wesley.
He came, swallowed a strong vermifuge, and a dose of castor oil, putting an end to his demoniacal antics.
One of the priests, thinking to gain notoriety as well as more substantial favours, declared that this man was a case of demoniacal possession.
I like your demoniacal ugliness; and the infernal ardor, hidden under the snow of your hair, truly delights me.
How much truthfulness there was depicted in her face--what a demoniacal ardor in her eyes; how much energy in her whole bearing, so indicative of bold determination and of an indomitable spirit!
And if this, in all its horror, is not true demoniacal possession, what else is?
Disease, or demoniacal possession, as it may be, I have emerged from both.
