17 Metaphors for demons

Take ut aisy, is ut, ye say, whin all the demons in this unholy place is jumpin' on me every minut in places promiscuous till I can't tell where to turn, descendin' an' vanishin' marvelious an' onaccountable?

He observed only that demons are always liars, and cunning to deceive.

Take ut aisy, is ut, ye say, whin all the demons in this unholy place is jumpin' on me every minut in places promiscuous till I can't tell where to turn, descendin' an' vanishin' marvelious an' onaccountable?

I am a great believer in presentiments: Socrates's demon was not a fiction; Monk Lewis had his monitor, and Napoleon many warnings.

The resemblance to Honoria had disappeared; nor was the demon any longer a figure of the Duke's valet.

As the doctrine, however, was extremely revolting to some few of the early Christians, they maintained that demons were the souls of departed human beings, who were still permitted to interfere in the affairs of the Earth, either to assist their friends or to persecute their enemies.

Demons, on the other hand, were their exact opposites.

The demon, with Socrates, is the attendant genius of an individual; with Plato it is more general; and the assigning the demons to the four elements is a notion of the later Platonists.

So that the demons had been through me posseshins again, bad luck to 'em.

The first demon to threaten Krishna's life is a huge ogress named Putana.

The angel was Mrs. Slapman: the demon was her husband.

The blows which the demons from the British lairs strike are to you the blows of justice; and you are glad when they go home.

"The demon of pride and dress is rampant everywhereerPatricia.

Do you not see that the demon, by the mere fact of having produced physical consequences, would have become himself a physical agent, a member of physical Nature, and therefore to be explained, he and his doings, by physical laws?

The demon, with Socrates, is the attendant genius of an individual; with Plato it is more general; and the assigning the demons to the four elements is a notion of the later Platonists.

At length it occurred to him that perhaps this demon of his fancy, which he was well convinced was an unreal phantom, yet could not banish, might possess no resemblance to the figure his pencil had produced; and might disappear, or at least be reduced to the condition of ordinary ideas, by a comparison with the bodily representative of his original conception.

And never one more desperate in any age or landboth parties now in forcemassesno fancy battle, no semi-play, but fierce and savage demons fighting therecourage and scorn of death is the rule, exceptions almost none."From

17 Metaphors for  demons