Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed by Them, as it was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works |
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... fiends , on account probably of their temporary or permanent absorption into the proselytizing system , or the refusal of the new converts to believe them to be so black as their teachers painted them . The gradual growth of the super ...
... fiends , on account probably of their temporary or permanent absorption into the proselytizing system , or the refusal of the new converts to believe them to be so black as their teachers painted them . The gradual growth of the super ...
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... fiends , to carry out their evil designs . The more important class kept for the most part in a mystical seclusion , and only appeared upon earth in cases of the greatest emergency , or when compelled to do so by conjuration . To the ...
... fiends , to carry out their evil designs . The more important class kept for the most part in a mystical seclusion , and only appeared upon earth in cases of the greatest emergency , or when compelled to do so by conjuration . To the ...
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... fiend , just as he has enshrined in beauty the belief in the guardian angel . It is worthy of remark that he describes the devil ast dwelling beneath the altar of an idol in a heathen 1 p . 507. See also Hutchinson , Essay on Witchcraft ...
... fiend , just as he has enshrined in beauty the belief in the guardian angel . It is worthy of remark that he describes the devil ast dwelling beneath the altar of an idol in a heathen 1 p . 507. See also Hutchinson , Essay on Witchcraft ...
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... fiend . " 3 " " It can hardly be but that the " thousand noses are intended as a satirical hit at the enormity of the popular belief . 43. In addition to this normal type , common to all these devils , each one seems to have had , like ...
... fiend . " 3 " " It can hardly be but that the " thousand noses are intended as a satirical hit at the enormity of the popular belief . 43. In addition to this normal type , common to all these devils , each one seems to have had , like ...
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... fiends . This was known as possession , or obsession . It was another of the mediæval beliefs against which the reformers steadily set their faces ; and all the resources of their casuistry were exhausted to expose its absurdity . But ...
... fiends . This was known as possession , or obsession . It was another of the mediæval beliefs against which the reformers steadily set their faces ; and all the resources of their casuistry were exhausted to expose its absurdity . But ...
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Page 73 - Turk; false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman; keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Page 111 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...
Page 59 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 98 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 57 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 58 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 90 - But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie by their necromanticall science, bicause everie thing came to passe as they had spoken.
Page 107 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down ; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 114 - ... and that in the night following the said cat was conveyed into the midst of the sea by all these Witches...