As a goddess expected to avert demons from the house or city over which she stood guard and to protect the individual as she or he passed through dangerous liminal places, Hecate would naturally become known as a goddess who could also refuse to avert the demons, or even drive them on against unfortunate individuals.

In another version, he was even attacked by the Devil while he was reading the Mass, and the Devil mutilated him and gave his gouged-out eyes to demons to play with in the Church.

Today, we would associate these entities with vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist ; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood ; even the Devil was considered synonymous with the vampire.

This salvation may not only extend to humans ; following Origen, there are passages where he seems to suggest ( albeit through the voice of Macrina ) that even the demons will have a place in Christ's " world of goodness ".

Caesarius of Arles entreats his audience to put no stock in any demons or gods other than the Christian God, even if the working of spells appears to provide benefit.

' Whereas Christians ( who have learned that their eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent ; and who have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices and blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments, in order to deceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is over all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a different nature and will from all the demons on earth, and that they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have carefully and intelligently investigated these matters ) will not endure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo or Zeus, or any being worshipped with odour and blood and sacrifices ; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity, not being able to give a reason for their conduct, but sincerely observing the precepts which they have received ; others, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even of a profound description, and ( as a Greek would say ) drawn from the inner nature of things ; and amongst the latter of these God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who are honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with participation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.

From this time on, successful struggles with Satan, demons, and all manner of evil spirits were daily occurrences with Besht. The true meaning of the story is that even the wolf /( Satan ) had a spark of the Divine that was in a shell.

Rules not only for character creation ( including Monster player characters ), combat and magic, but also for Knights ( tournaments, courtly love, fiefs, political influence ), a hierarchical priesthood who could perform miracles, a large section on monsters, including the Infernal Court of demons and even wargames rules for armies were contained in the rulebook.

Indian demonology is also fully and systematically described in written sources, though during Buddhism's millennium of direct influence in China, " Chinese demonology was whipped into respectable shape ," with a number of Indian demons finding permanent niches even in Taoist ritual texts.

With the ability to take extra prosthetics such as layers of fur or skin " to resemble a digitigrade leg, from canine and feline to fantastical demons, dragons, satyrs and even robots ", these devices are promoted as being easy to get used to, partly because they " allow for realistic and natural movement as they are jointed at the knee and the ankle.

In reality, the Eldest ( the fallen spirits, demons, the third of the angels that fell from heaven ) have suffered and will suffer the most in total for the evil done and from the millions of years they have been without contact to God, their Father, convinced under the influence of Darkness, that God would not forgive but even do away with them.

However, even the full might of all the demons of Hellwell cannot stand against the gods.

She also carries a weapon, the skull-wheel, which is some kind of ultrasonic emitter that causes confusion and oblivion, even to the demons.

She begins the quest to locate The Key, aided by a race of pale, black-eyed demons who are loyal to her almost to a fault, though she does not care for them and viciously abuses them, both verbally and physically, for even the slightest failures.

*: Jesus continued to cast out demons even though Herod Antipas wanted to kill him.

Being uninterruptedly caught by numerous demons, he still behave normally ; even when he is about to be eaten, he does not seem to be anxious compared to his another two mates.

The word Elohim occurs more than 2500 times in the Hebrew Bible, with meanings ranging from " god " in a general sense ( as in Exodus 12: 12, where it describes " the gods of Egypt "), to a specific god ( e. g., 1 Kings 11: 33, where it describes Chemosh " the god of Moab ", or the frequent references to Yahweh as the " elohim " of Israel ), to demons, seraphim, and other supernatural beings, to the spirits of the dead brought up at the behest of King Saul in 1 Samuel 28: 13, and even to kings and prophets ( e. g., Exodus 4: 16 ).

Near the end of the Edo period when foreigners became widely known and seen, even sex acts with foreign males were drawn and sold, not to mention acts with animals, demons ( both male ( incubus ) and female ( succubus ), and deities.

On the eve of this, The Resistance finally arrives on Kahna and upon fighting an army of demons, they gain the alliance of General Palpaleos, secretly ordered to join by Emperor Sauzer himself, who has foreseen a great coming disaster which he feels only The Resistance can stop, even if that means waging war on the very empire he once served with zeal.

But as Yuji soon discovers, no one left on Earth is without their demons … not even Dice.

Unlike " The Raven ", in which the narrator believes he will " nevermore " be reunited with his love, " Annabel Lee " says the two will be together again, as not even demons " can ever dissever " their souls.

Piper's son is discovered to be The Twice-Blessed Child, the most powerful magical being of all time, which attracts even more demons into the sisters ' lives.

Paranormal claims involving Greys vary in every respect including their nature ( ETs, extradimensionals, demons, or machines ), origins, moral dispositions, intentions, and physical appearances ( even varying in their eponymous skin color ).

Other writers acknowledge his extremely high popularity at home, but suppose his occasionally rigid and even irrational political loyalties and convictions contributed greatly to Spartan decline, notably his unremitting hatred of Thebes, which led to Sparta's humiliation at the Battle of Leuctra and thus the end of Spartan hegemony.

The intense secrecy surrounding the base, whose very existence the U. S. government did not even acknowledge until 29 September 1995, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object ( UFO ) folklore.

The NFL has so far refused to acknowledge AAFC statistics and records because the Browns ' achievements – including their perfect season – did not take place in the NFL or against NFL teams, and not even in a league fully absorbed by the NFL.

Lindberg and Numbers write: " There was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference ".

Others acknowledge a few possible or even likely relationships but feel that most of the Ediacaran forms are representatives of unknown animal types.

Like most Klingons, Martok had a disdain for Ferengi, which manifested itself in several refusals to even acknowledge Nog, who at the time was a Starfleet Cadet.

Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.

When D = 0, the network is permitted ( but not required ) to acknowledge before the remote DTE has acknowledged or even received the data.

Towards the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the nobles did not even bother to symbolically acknowledge loyalty to the Ji family, declaring themselves to be independent kings.

In Europe, it is often called Ullrich-Turner syndrome or even Bonnevie-Ullrich-Turner syndrome to acknowledge that earlier cases had also been described by European doctors.

Jaina kills Jacen in Invincible, the final novel in the series, leaving the Solo family stricken with grief, even as they acknowledge that his death was " necessary ".

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Margaret consequently was a staunch supporter of anyone willing to challenge Tudor, and backed both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, even going so far as to acknowledge Warbeck as her nephew, the younger son of Edward IV, the Duke of York.

The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the actual director.

Stone decided not to write the essay ; she determined that she would do nothing to publicly acknowledge " the rectitude of the principle which takes away from women their equal rights, and denies to them the privilege of being co-laborers with men in any sphere to which their ability makes them adequate ; and that no word or deed of mine should ever look towards the support of such a principle, or even to its toleration.

A talented and charismatic reader can sometimes even bully a subject into admitting a connection, demanding over and over that they acknowledge a particular statement as having some relevance and maintaining that they just aren't thinking hard enough, or are repressing some important memory.

Despite the joy reflected in the poems, however, they also acknowledge " the experiences of cruelty, pain and death that are inseparable from the lives of birds as of humans ... and a sorrowing a clear-sighted gaze on the terrible damage we have done and continue to do to our world, even as we love it ".

The two museums even made an error they acknowledge with humour: they displayed the skeletons " standing ", suggesting that the dinosaurs were bidepal, which is not the case.

Micromanagement resembles addiction in that although most micromanagers are behaviorally dependent on control over others, both as a lifestyle and as a means of maintaining that lifestyle, many of them fail to recognize and acknowledge their dependence even when everyone around them observes it.

The Serbian Empire of Stefan Uroš fragmented into a conglomeration of principalities, some of which did not even nominally acknowledge his rule.

" Sex-positive " respects each of our unique sexual profiles, even as we acknowledge that some of us have been damaged by a culture that tries to eradicate sexual difference and possibility.

The Serbian Empire of Dušan fragmented into a conglomeration of principalities, some of which did not even nominally acknowledge his rule.

He finally has to acknowledge that the brighter days of his marriage are long past: he does not even delight in his gradual ascent within the country ’ s political hierarchy.

" Miller also responded publicly, addressing a letter " To Second Advent Believers " and writing, " I confess my error, and acknowledge my disappointment ; yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near, even at the door.

He appeared unwilling to suppress or even to acknowledge the violence of the Left.