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Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening. Review | Long before ‘Ghostbusters,’ fiction’s detectives were exploring the otherworldly 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z
Still, be warned: “The Sorcery Club” may seem an example of dated turn-of-the-century diabolism, but I wouldn’t try any of its weird invocations at home. Book World: ‘The Sorcery Club,’ by Elliott O’Donnell
Whether it manifests as racism, bullying, or subliminal conditioning to self-harm, "Evil" shows us how ordinary and banal most diabolism is. The power of "Evil" compels us to celebrate the monstrous reasons it speaks to us right now 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z
Now that cat, the spirit and essence of darkness, the forerunner of diabolism, was true to the symbol. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
Within was working an element of diabolism, fetichism, there known by the name of Obeah, under whose leaven some of the churches were wrecked. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z
Look you! a savage thinks that there is a diabolism in the self-action of a watch—in the reflection of a looking-glass. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z
This man’s character was so cruel and wicked, that some explanation is needed of the singular maturity of diabolism to which he had attained. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z
He was present in the crowd around the gallows when several of the wronged victims to diabolism were executed. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z
Here were signs of grace on one side, and diabolism on the other. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
He that can find satisfaction in thus swapping off bestiality for diabolism, let him find it. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z
It was a kind of diabolism which still survives in many a corner of the Atlantic coast where tales of Kidd are told. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day
It is merely the diabolism of instinct that prompts the young to believe that the race is all. Ancestors A Novel
Corey himself testified at his preliminary examination, and the court tried to make it evidence of diabolism, that, twice at least, when attempting to pray, there was more or less stoppage of his utterance. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z
Then came the pictured rocks—the illustrated newspaper of the aborigines, free, so far as I know, from the diabolism which pollutes the pictorial papers of our time. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
The most intimate association with them fails to disclose a trace of the diabolism which, according to the popular idea, one would expect to find characterizing the people among whom the Ku Klux Klan originated. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
A cave! the very word smacked of diabolism, and had the true flavor of genuine witchcraft. The Witches of New York
This belief, on my part, is all that redeems my coming from being an act of diabolism. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889
The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z
There was some occult diabolism that could not be explained. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z
It is, in fact, a bit of slow-going village life dropped between the diabolism of Cripple Creek and the decay of Creede. Money Magic A Novel
Only the diabolism of a savage mind could contrive or countenance such barbarity as they had come to submit him to. The Duke Of Chimney Butte
Let there be as little diabolism as possible, but as much of the divinity as you can get. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
So convinced were those in power of the tendency of woman to diabolism that the learned Sir Matthew Hale condemned two women without even summing up the evidence. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
He was the founder of diabolism in French letters. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
Nemesis is written in letters of flame across the starry heavens, as an atonement for the blood of nations and the degeneracy and diabolism of an ambitious, cruel, relentless, and unrestrained priesthood. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
Nor has this diabolism anything grand or impressive about it—anything that "intends greatly" and glows, as has been said, with a black splendour, in Marlowesque or Websterian fashion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The dualism exists doubtless, and we can be caught in it, but the function of mind is to overspan it, and so transform all difference, discord, diabolism into unity, harmony, deity. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
Would any other Government intermingle so foolishly, so childishly its State and Federal authority as to permit such diabolism? Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
Literary engagements stood in the way—for the social heretics gather on a Friday—but come what might, I would hear them discuss diabolism. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
But train-wrecking must always be the result of the purest malice,—of diabolism unalloyed. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
Yet by his colossal personality he dominated the vast assemblage and inspired the orchestra to such feats of dynamic diabolism as entirely eclipsed the most momentous achievements of any full-grown conductor from Nero to Nikisch. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914
A Cuban planter who suspected one of his older slaves of being an Obeah man determined to punish him if he were found guilty, and to suppress the diabolism attending the midnight meetings. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate
They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
Balthazar Becker, one of the most meritorious of the opponents of diabolism, was deposed from his ministerial office by an ecclesiastical synod, and denounced as an atheist. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
And now, these Christmas holidays, the diabolism seemed to her to be rampant; it effervesced through all Scott's being like the mysterious things he brewed within his test-tubes. The Brentons
This had the effect of putting a temporary curb on Neranya's spirit, or, rather, of changing the outward manifestations of his diabolism. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
Moreover, we mystics are all to some extent accused by the accusations which are preferred in the matter of modern diabolism, and this is another reason for investigating and making known the result. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
When amidst the Marquis de Mirville’s revelations, one is in the full swing of Roman Catholic diabolism—demons, spirits, purgatory, miracles, prayers,—nothing is lacking. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
A royal commission was ordered to inquire into the now notorious circumstances of the Loudun diabolism. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
The very diabolism of the device acquitted Dorothy, according to Garrison's judgment. A Husband by Proxy
Music slides over into diabolism; the Pobloff symphony rends the firmament of Heaven; the ghost of Chopin drives Mychowski to drink; a single drum-beat finishes the estimable consort of the composer of the Tympani symphony. A Book of Prefaces
As presented by its discoverer, there is no doubt that it is an execrable production, involving the practice in open lodge of obscenity, diabolism, and sacrilege. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
The scientific diabolism of the German High Command was revealed when poison gas was projected against the Canadians at Ypres, torturing, blinding and killing thousands. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War
Because slander is the fruit of deliberate criminal spite, jealousy and revenge, it has a character of diabolism. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
It needs no comment of mine to instruct the reader as to the character of the paper which could publish such complete diabolism:— The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar.
She is decidedly the prettiest piece of diabolism I ever saw. Infelice
When, therefore, the rumours of Black Magic, diabolism, and the abuse of occult forces began to circulate, there was little difficulty in attributing some foundation to the report. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
We have seen the appalling perversion—the methodical diabolism—which this obsession has produced in Germany. Outspoken Essays
In the presence of this frightful disease, destroying every semblance of fair humanity, one can see some reason also for the belief in witchcraft and diabolism once so intense in the Pyrenees. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
I warmly sympathise with those who think most of this rather morbid, and nearer the diabolic than the divine, but to call a thing diabolic is hardly an argument against the existence of diabolism. The New Jerusalem
He drives cowering to her corner, after her earlier triumphs, his unhappy victim of love, absinthe, and diabolism. Promenades of an Impressionist
The two orders are further distinguished as unorganised and as organised diabolism. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
His theology had much in it that is in striking harmony with modern scientific philosophy, and much in it, too, that the descendants of his Puritan converts have learned to loathe as sheer diabolism. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty
No shout of immature diabolism caught my ear, no scent of lemon came into my nostrils, and I saw nothing but the line of road directly in front of me. A Bicycle of Cathay
He asserts himself by enslaving others, and mimics Divinity on the stilts of diabolism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862
In one is the clear day flame of impersonality; the other is all personality, given to nocturnal moods, to diabolism and perversities, cruelties and fierce voluptuousness. Promenades of an Impressionist
Before the year 1891 the diabolism identified with Masonry was almost exclusively intellectual. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
The result of the attempt to introduce diabolism to the English mind is well known. Confessions of a Young Man
And in the evolution of Germanism, from Hoffmann to Hauptmann, we do see this growing tendency to take horror seriously, which is diabolism. The Crimes of England
It didn't occur to anybody that he or his Catholic diabolism mattered. Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties
This diabolism, this worship of Satan and his works, are sincere in the etcher. Promenades of an Impressionist
Regarding all English possessions as peculiarly productive in the Dead Sea fruit of diabolism, Singapore was the next scene of his curious researches. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
But it was more especially the epidemics of diabolism in medieval and modern times which gave strength to the theological view, and from these I shall present a chain of typical examples. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
And it isn't—amusing—to go to the devil with anybody whose diabolism would be so efficiently pious—a reversed kind of Presbyterianism. Young People's Pride A Novel
"It was Milton," he certificatively added, "who converted me to diabolism." Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties
The supernatural, the phenomena of alleged witchcraft and diabolism, and of "luck," "hoodoo," "fate," etc., find ready disciples among those who reject disdainfully the results of the working of natural law. Steam, Steel and Electricity
And what is worse, They will teach this to Their children—Their children who are naturally innocent and fat, and full of goodness, are deliberately and systematically corrupted by Them; there is diabolism in it. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
He was allowed to work in peace, and in a short time the reign of diabolism at Bicetre was ended. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
But I do not know whether diabolism is a part of your creed, or where indeed to find an exposition of your creed at all. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842
The Huron who embraced the Faith renounced thenceforth, as we have seen, the feasts, dances, and games in which was his delight, since all these savored of diabolism. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Novelists are ever introducing upon their pages, as the villain of the story, the smooth, oily rogue: as if they considered such ones were alone capable of cunning roguery and subtle diabolism. From Wealth to Poverty
If it be true that the human voice is music's aptest instrument, it is also true that nothing vocalized in nature can excel it in the expression of diabolism. The Prince of India — Volume 01
"It means that your race of crime and diabolism is run, Harper Elliston!" Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
I asked unguardedly, knowing well that whatever their open pretenses, gipsies despise all religion except diabolism. The Eye of Zeitoon
French troops massacring and murdering men, women, and children; rampant diabolism, and incarnate revenge were at work in the most beautiful city in the world! How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley
Boys will be charged in proportion to their estimated depravity; fifty dollars a head for the younger sorts, and from five hundred to one thousand for those more advanced in general diabolism. The Fiend's Delight
The other is an English Marquis, so cold and mercenary that I even prefer the diabolism of the Duke. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
Yet in the worship of dewel by the Gypsies is to be found the element of diabolism invariably present in barbaric worship. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
There is no diabolism about him; for barbaric races, while believing in the existence of hurtful and malicious fiends, have not a sufficiently vivid sense of moral abnormity to form the conception of diabolism. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
Oh! the spite, the fretfulness, the vexation which the horrible phantasmagoria of diabolisms induce! How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley
The atrocities constituting this "cold collation" of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals. The Fiend's Delight
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