Some typical characteristics of high fantasy include fantastical elements such as elves, fairies, dwarves, dragons, demons, magic or sorcery, wizards or magicians, constructed languages, quests, coming-of-age themes, and multi-volume narratives.

Some Christians believe in the spiritual beings angels and demons that are ontologically inferior to God.

Some of these practices may relate to ancient indigenous beliefs and traditions on spirits, worship of deities and godlings and some figures appear to demons.

Some Christian writers later rejected the idea that humans could bring back the spirits of the dead and interpreted such shades as disguised demons instead, thus conflating necromancy with demon summoning.

Some Byzantine authors condemned them as sorcery and the work of demons, others admitted that such magic was beneficial ; none of them claimed that it didn ’ t work.

Some Dualist interpretations of Christianity would conclude that demons are gods in those subsets of religions.

Some texts are written with instructions on how to summon demons in the name of God and often were claimed to have been written by individuals respected within the Church, such as the Lesser Key of Solomon or The Grimoire of Pope Honorius ( although these the earliest manuscripts were from well after these individuals had died ).

Some of them borrow concepts of the nature of demons from established religions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam while reversing these religions ' negative value judgement in the matter, while others elaborate original concepts of their own about demons ' character and abilities.

Jenny and Giles begin dating in the episode " Some Assembly Required ", and his attempts to ask her out force him into facing issues far more frightening than the monsters and demons with which he is familiar, and bring her into direct conflict with her secret reason for being in Sunnydale.

Some allusions to meetings of witches with demons are also made in the Inquistors ' manual of witch-hunting, the Malleus Maleficarum ( 1486 ).

Some books on demonology, like Arbatel de Magia Verum and The Lesser Key of Solomon ( or Lemegeton ), assert that all demons have their own signature, collectively called seal of the demons, and sign the acts of diabolical pacts with them.

Some of the material in the first section, concerning the summoning of demons, dates to the 14th century or earlier.

Some scholars have said that Weyer intended to mock the concept of the hellish hierarchy that previous grimoires had established by writing those two books and entitling his catalogue of demons Pseudomonarchia Daemonum ( The False Kingdom of the Demons ).

Some of these demons are mentioned in the bible, but have no official names, such as the Raging Demon, or some of the demons that were cast out by Christians during the time of the New Testament, or by Jesus Christ.

Some Christians argue that all people, including believers, can be in dwelt by demons, and others argue that only non-believers can be inhabited.

Some of the demons, or Asuras, were very powerful and ambitious and continually tried to defeat the Devas, or Gods, and capture Heaven.

Some demons wish to finish the war against heaven, believing the disaster is still to be averted, some take revenge upon humanity, believing humans the primary cause for the war, while other Demons want to reconcile and repent for their sins, to be able to return to God, who, along with his angels, has vanished.

Some versions present the true purpose of the Baali as keeping demons sleeping by feeding them with carnage and destruction.

Some classes of creature, such as Vampires and Old Ones, are known to be demons but not always referred to as such.

Some demons in Buffy are shown to be inherently evil and interested in causing suffering, death, and harm.

Scholar D. R. Bhandarkar writes in his Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture that " Parsus or Persians " was an old term for " Rakshasas " ( demons ).

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

Some fiscal changes are important.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

Some privately held inholdings are a source of direct damage to these Federal lands.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

Some deductions are subtracted from Gross Income to determine Adjusted Gross Income.

Some renditions are of symphonic dimensions, with the contrabass given free rein.

Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.

Some tasty frank toppings are chili con carne, Coney Island sauce and savory sauerkraut.

Some general things to look for in a site, if you haven't already bought one, are accessibility, water drainage, and orientation.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

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( Some suspensions break up before they are near to the direction of shear, and some become asymptotic to it without breakup.

Some experiments are composed of repetitions of independent trials, each with two possible outcomes.

Some of these speculations may have some merit, others are somewhat ambiguous.

Some phonetic features, for example glottal catch or murmur, are sometimes to be assigned to segmental phonemics and sometimes to accentual systems.

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