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One evening when Margaretta and I were alone in my private room (the front room of the second story), some friends wanted a dark séance; for which purpose Katie went down with them into the basement room
Read record →A party of David's friends drove over from Newark to have a séance with the Spirits
Read record →"In conclusion we may repeat the prophecy respecting this boy, which prediction was spelt out at the house of Mr
Read record →"We have with us this morning a lady, a Medium, who has been known for years among the Spiritualists as one who has sown the seed in the early forming of our faith, and scattered it with open heart and hand
Read record →In the ranks of Mediumship there are no small number of noble men and women possessing this splendid power
Read record →Three Friars, says a legend, hid themselves near the Witch Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils; but the Chief of these, discovering the friars, said--'Reverend Brothers, our army is such that if all the Alps, their rocks and glaciers, were equally
Read record →The fable of Thor's attempt to drink up a small spring, and his failure because it was fed by the ocean, seems aimed at such efforts as mine
Read record →alls for Nemesis--Lilith and her children--Neoplatonicism--Astrology and Alchemy--Devil's College--Shem-hammphorásch--Apollonius of Tyana--Faustus--Black Art Schools--Compacts with the Devil--Blood covenant--Spirit-seances in old times--The Fairfax delusion--O
Read record →The splendours of the morning and evening; the azure vault, painted with frescoes of cloud or blackened by the storm; the night, crowned with constellations: these awakened imagination, inspired awe, kindled admiration, and at length adoration, in the being wh
Read record →Not less significant are the facts which were attested at the witch-trials
Read record →It is the presence of these more mystical and complex ideas in religions which indicate a progress of the human mind from the large and obvious to the more delicate and occult, and the growth of the higher vision which can see small things in their large relat
Read record →And yet, while recognising the name Eumenides as euphemistic, we may admire none the less the growth of that rationalism which ultimately found in the epithet a suggestion of the soul of good in things evil, and almost restored the beneficent sense of Saranyu
Read record →It is necessary to distinguish clearly between the Demon and the Devil, though, for some purposes, they must be mentioned together
Read record →The Sanskrit deva, 'the shining one,' Zend daêva, correspond with the Greek theos, Latin deus, Anglo-Saxon Tiw; and remain in 'deity,' 'deuce' (probably; it exists in Armorican, teuz, a phantom), 'devel' (the gipsy name for God), and Persian div, demon
Read record →ad read, from the Sura called 'The Star,' the question, 'What think ye of Allat, Al Uzza, and Manah, that other third goddess?' he himself added, 'These are the most high and beauteous damsels, whose intercession is to be hoped for,' the response being afterwa
Read record →persistence of this idea in various ethnical lines of development
Read record →It is through this mythologic history that the most powerful demons have been associated in the popular imagination with stars, planets,--Ketu in India, Saturn and Mercury the 'Infortunes,'--comets, and other celestial phenomena
Read record →The evolution of demons and devils out of deities was made real to the popular imagination in every country where the new religion found art existing, and by alliance with it was enabled to shape the ideas of the people
Read record →The statements made concerning the fair names of the chief demons and devils which have haunted the imagination of mankind, heighten the contrast between their celestial origin and the functions attributed to them in their degraded forms
Read record →These classes are selected, in obedience to necessary limitations, as representing the twelve chief labours of man which have given shape to the majority of his haunting demons, as distinguished from his devils
Read record →n's satisfaction of his need--the bird and fish so hard to get, the stingy earth so ready to give him a stone when he asked for bread--that he came to the conclusion that there must be invisible voracious beings who wanted all good things for themselves
Read record →might have defeated the purpose of the expedition by the smoke it was sending up, had not two officers leaped upon the fire and scattered its fuel; but just about the time when these courageous gentlemen were trampling out the fires of superstition whose smoke
Read record →In some cases, indeed, we meet with the vampyre superstition; as in the story of Vikram and the Vampyre, and in the Tamil drama of Harichándra, where the frenzied Sandramáti says to the king, 'I belong to the race of elves, and I have killed thy child in order
Read record →rarely supposed to enjoy it; but it exposes the real ugliness of the pious superstitions sometimes deemed pretty, that, in proportion to the intensity of belief in supernaturalism, the people live in terror of the demons that go about seeking whom they may dev
Read record →There is something dangerous and fatal in the air; every one should be on the watch, and not tempt the schedim (demons) in any way
Read record →The two parties then united and returned in procession to the front of Balmoral Castle, where refreshments were served to all, and dancing was engaged in round a huge bonfire
Read record →Sometimes there are queer coincidences between their notions and some of the early legends of Britain
Read record →'If an ignorant negro is smitten with a disease which he cannot comprehend, he often imagines himself the victim of witchcraft, and having no faith in 'white folks' physic' for such ailments, must apply to one of these quacks
Read record →The volcanoes originated the belief that hell is at the earth's centre, and their busy Vulcans of classic ages have been easily transformed into sulphurous lords of the christian Hell
Read record →Gill's South Pacific myths is one of a Prometheus, Maui, who by assistance of a red pigeon gets from the subterranean fire-demon the secret of producing fire (by rubbing sticks), the demon (Mauike) being then consumed with his realm, and fire being brought to
Read record →The deadly powers of Winter are represented in the Eddaic account of the death of Baldur, soft summer Light, the Norse Baal
Read record →Traces of similar speculations are found with the Rabbins
Read record →In Thibet hell is believed to have sixteen circles, eight burning, eight frozen, which M
Read record →The Demon of Cold has a habitat, naturally, in every Northern region
Read record →This type of demon haunted people's minds in Scandinavia, where, though traditions of a flame demon (Loki) and the end of the world by fire were imported, the popular belief seems to have been mainly occupied with Frost giants, and the formidable Oegir, god of
Read record →These names for the heavenly regions and their occupants indicate sunshine and fire
Read record →ve probably the shape in which the Northman's dream of Paradise finally cohered,--a Rose-garden in the South, guarded by a huge Worm (water-snake, or glittering glacial sea intervening), whose glowing charms, with Beauty (Chriemhild) for their queen, could be
Read record →[52] On a boisterous night, when two young girls had taken refuge in her cottage, they all heard about midnight cries of distress mingling with the roar of the sea, 'Raise the window curtain and look out,' said Meggie
Read record →The Finns call them Ukonkiwi--the stone of thunder-god Ukko, and in Courland their name is Perkuhnsteine, which explains itself
Read record →The ubiquitous superstition which attributes the flint arrows of pre-historic races to gods, shot by them as lightning, and, as some said, from a rainbow, is too childlike a theory to call for elaborate treatment
Read record →None the less must we see in the biblical account of the Flood the action of tempestuous water-demons
Read record →follows: the Heaven by Anu; the surface of the earth, including the atmosphere, by Bel; the under-world by Nouah
Read record →c character, and we find his name in the Far West (America) turning up as 'The Nick of the Woods,'--the wild legend of a settler who, following a vow of vengeance for his wrongs, used to kill the red men while they slept, and was supposed to be a demon
Read record →The once perilous Strudel and Wirbel of the Danube are haunted by diabolical legends
Read record →Emerson says, 'Foxes are so cunning because they are not strong.' In our Japanese demon, whose three eyes alone connect it with the præternatural vision ascribed by that race to the fox, the harelip is very pronounced
Read record →Professor Monier Williams writes from Southern India--'When my fellow-travellers and myself were nearly dashed to pieces over a precipice the other day by some restive horses on a ghat near Poona, we were told that the road at this particular point was haunted
Read record →It will not be deemed wonderful that Rats bear a venerable rank in Demonology
Read record →erning the origin of our familiar fable the Kilkenny Cats, which he traces to the German superstition which dreads the combat between cats as presaging death to one who witnesses it; and this belief he finds reflected in the Tuscan child's 'game of souls,' in
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