That night, while Merlin is asleep, Niviane, still disgusted with Merlin's desire for her, as well as his demonic heritage, casts a spell over him and places him in the magic tomb so that he can never escape, thus causing his death.

Scripture reflects the fact that early Christians embraced marriage and yet felt that a false ascetic bias against marriage was seeping into their culture: 1 Timothy 4: 1 " In the last times, some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

In Christianised Europe, the Church divided books of magic into two kinds ; those that dealt with " natural magic " and those that dealt in " demonic magic ".

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

Madelyne eventually resurfaces with powers awakened by a demonic pact, calling herself the " Goblyn Queen ".

The Traditions replenished their numbers ( which had been diminished by the withdrawal of two Traditions, the secretive Ahl-i-Batin, and the Solificati, alchemists plagued by scandal ) with former Technocrats from the Sons of Ether and Virtual Adepts factions, vying for the beliefs of sleepers and with the Technocracy, and perpetually wary of the Nephandi ( who consciously embrace evil and service to a demonic or alien master ) and the Marauders ( who resist Paradox with a magical form of madness ).

The supposed author uses his faith in God and mixes with it the teachings of King Solomon ; it contains invocations of demonic entities for every day of the week.

In her battle with demonic puppet master, Mokkurkalfi she states that she dislikes machines whose prime directive is meaningless combat, and that a true mechanic must value the sanctity of his or her mecha's life.

They also variously include lion dances and dragon dances ; human-occupied puppets ( often of the " Seventh Lord " and " Eighth Lord "); tongji ( " spirit-medium ; shaman ") who cut their skin with knives ; Bajiajiang, which are Kungfu-practicing honor guards in demonic makeup ; and palanquins carrying god-images.

* In, some interpreters see the traducian model as the best explanation for the begetting of monstrous offspring with human bodies and demonic souls by the angels that took wives of the daughters of men.

Originally a group of teenage friends attending Sunnydale High in a town built on top of a Hellmouth, the group gradually expanded, eventually merging with the Watchers ' Council to become a global organization dealing with demonic threats worldwide and training thousands of Slayers.

In Season Eight ( 2007 – 11 ), it establishes Buffy is not living with the Immortal in Rome which is simply a cover story to ensure her safety as she is now the leader of a global organization which recruits and trains Slayers to deal with demonic threats worldwide.

Scientific materialists, skeptics, and empiricists have said that those who have experienced demonic possession have sometimes exhibited symptoms similar to those associated with mental illnesses such as psychosis, hysteria, mania, Tourette's syndrome, epilepsy, schizophrenia, or dissociative identity disorder.

Yetzer hara is not a demonic force ; rather, it is man's misuse of the things which the physical body needs to survive, and is often contrasted with yetzer hatov.

Competing etymologies include a basis in the Indo-European root * dheur-( meaning " damage "), the Indo-European root * dhreugh ( whence modern German Traum / English dream and trug " deception "), and comparisons have been made with Sanskrit dhvaras ( a type of demonic being ).

For example, Papa Legba is considered by Haitian Vodou practitioners to be closest to Saint Peter, although in Brazilian Quimbanda it is not uncommon to see Exu closely associated with demonic entities such as Lucifer, clad in Mephistophelean attire and bearing a trident.

Until the Age of Enlightenment the Tyanean was usually treated as a demonic magician and a great enemy of the Church who collaborated with the devil and tried to overthrow Christianity.

Simek states that due to the shift of concept, the valkyries became popular figures in heroic poetry, and during this transition were stripped of their " demonic characteristics and became more human, and therefore become capable of falling in love with mortals [...].

* The Plague, a duo of demonic assassins in the movie Hobo with a Shotgun

They take many forms, but mostly preternatural demonic animals, half-human, half-beast demons, a swarm of flies able to take human form, and numerous shapeshifting demons.

" In this text called The Grimoire of Pope Honorius, he supposedly discusses the value of occult knowledge in the Church, and how by summoning or raising demonic entities, one could learn to control them.

Due to Wolfram & Hart's legal upgrade in Season Five, Gunn also has knowledge of all legal codes, both human and demon, as well as fluency in some demonic languages, knowledge of golf techniques and knows all Gilbert & Sullivan light operas.

They attempt to repeat history by infusing an unwilling Buffy with the same demonic essence that they used on the First Slayer to increase her power ; however, Buffy refused, as she had come to seek only knowledge, not power, especially if that power meant that she would lose her humanity.

Symbolically, the story represents the triumph of pure knowledge, guided by the hand of God, over the demonic forces of passion and darkness.

After some weeks, Zankou finally revealed his true intentions ; exploiting his knowledge of the sisters ' lives and attacking them on an emotional level by bringing back to life innocents the sisters had lost with the help of a demonic alchemist.

Many similarities can be drawn between UFOs and demonic manifestations: both involve revealing half truths, double truths or deceit, both tend to have a volatile character, as they seem to appear unexpectedly and have an indefinite or illusory character, inducing a sense of wondering and awe, and, more subtly, exposure to or knowledge of both, as incomplete as it is, can induce some abnormal or even pathologic states to those exposed-anxiety, fear, obsession with the phenomenon, and even paranoid schizophrenia, demonomania and suicide, according to John Keel's book " UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse ", cited in the links above.

Armed only with a dagger and a vague knowledge of how the demonic mirror can be stopped, Nikki sets out to confront Megan and her mirror, before it is too late.

Chthon has an extraordinary knowledge of the dark mystical forces of the cosmos, being the Marvel Universe's first known native practitioner of black magic, and catalogued the evil spells of the demonic Elder Gods of Earth in the Darkhold, a virtually indestructible collection of evil mystical knowledge and spells that he intended to serve as the medium through which he could return to Earth.

In modern fictional representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress ; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.

Though Cyborg survived the attack, Titans members past and present were attacked by demonic entities across the globe.

Throughout the game, there are various event scenes that offer clues about your daughter's past, not to mention the war between humans and non-humans and her demonic roots.

However, the antiques dealer who was in charge of the house clearance finds an old diary that holds the ominous secret of the mirror's past: It describes how the mirror is possessed by a demonic force within it, which has the power to grant requests at a deadly price ... and the fate of the previous owner's sister.

Tina Minoru, the Staff's owner previous to Nico, mentions that the Staff even made Dormammu ( a demonic entity with vast magical power far surpassing even that of the Sorcerer Supreme ) tremble and that it gave the wielder " ll the power of the past, present and future " and would make its wielder " unstoppable.

Novels like Dracula and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde present depictions of repressed, foreign, and demonic forces at the heart of the imperial polity.

His books, both fictional and non-fictional, frequently present a dark view of the present state of the world, exposing dark spirits, conspiracy, betrayal, heresy, widespread sexual perversion, self-advancement, and demonic possession, each being asserted as rife throughout the Catholic Church, from its lowest levels up to its highest.

On the side of evil are the demonic horsemen: the Lord of Plague, the Lord of Famine, the Lord of War, and the ever present Lord Bane, Lord of Death.

In Indonesia, the striking appearance of the babirusa has inspired demonic masks, and the animal itself is sometimes used as a gift to present to visitors.

" A 6th-century CE Taoist medical work, the Wuzangjing 五臟經 (" Five Viscera Classic ") says, " If you wish to command demonic apparitions to present themselves you should constantly eat the inflorescences of the hemp plant.

In monotheistic faiths there is an equivalent cohort of malefic supranormal beings and powers, such as demons, devils, afreet, etc., which are not conventionally referred to as divine ; demonic is often used instead.

Note that while the terms demon and demonic are used in monotheistic faiths as antonyms to divine, they are in fact derived from the Greek word daimón ( δαίμων ), which itself translates as divinity.

Among the obstacles are demonic monsters, pits of toxic or radioactive slime, ceilings that lower and crush the player, and locked doors for which a keycard, skull-shaped key device, or remote switch must be located.

To counter this, the Roman Catholic Church authorised the production of many works of exorcism, the rituals of which were often very similar to those of demonic conjuration.

Notably, the cover art depicts the " demonic robot " form which Sordid would take on in the second game in the series.

In which the alien invaders are supernatural or otherwise religious-inspired demonic beings, who infiltrate the Earth, attack mankind, take over human society ( disguised as humans themselves ), and declare war upon the saints, fulfilling the events described in the Book of Revelation or another religious prophecy, occasionally created for the story itself.

Vritra ( a Brahmin in this version ) became the head of the Asuras ( portrayed as inherently demonic here, as opposed to the Vedic version in which they can be gods or demons ).

Kurma Purana describes the preceding battle between the Purusha and demonic forces in which he escapes a powerful weapon called Pashupata and it describes how Prahlada's brothers headed by Anuhrada and thousands of other demons " were led to the valley of death ( yamalayam ) by the lion produced from the body of man-lion " avatara.

In this carnage which went beyond all human estimation, Drona stood like a mad hero of demonic proportion.

Despite the interest and realism of the system, which makes a case demonic invocations no Mage can not afford to treat lightly, this part of the system has not been well integrated with the rules of magic and is confined to the end of the rules, and also the mixture of styles, the Judeo-Christian demonology adjacent to the Thousand and One Nights, all sprinkled with a touch of mythology came from the writings of Tolkien.

In a battle with the demonic Mayor of Sunnydale, Giles presses the trigger which destroys the Mayor and Sunnydale High, putting himself out of a job.

Michael Hattaway offers an alternate, sympathetic view of Joan which argues that the character's movement from saintly to demonic is justified within the text: " Joan is the play's tragic figure, comparable with Faulconbridge in King John.

The last major reference in Lovecraft's fiction to Azathoth was in 1935's " The Haunter of the Dark ", which tells of " the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws.

More recently Ross returned to the villain of that story, Merodach, making him the villain of a Doctor Who audiobook, Night's Black Agents ( Big Finish Productions 2010 ), in which this demonic figure assumes the pose of a Minister of the Kirk.

But Ganelon lived and, as he tells Corwin, rose from leading an outlaw band to become leader of all the forces of Lorraine fighting against a strange evil: a constantly-expanding dark circle of toadstools from which demonic creatures and soulless men emerge.

An incident of demonic possession is recorded in his youth, in which he was said to have been foaming at the mouth before he was taken to the altar of the church.

Unlike the dragons in European mythology which are considered to be evil and demonic, Asian dragons are regarded as wholesome and beneficent, and thus worthy of veneration, not slaying.

Acts of the Apostles contains also a number of references to people coming under the influence of the Holy Spirit (,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ) which is believed to be a good thing in contrast to demonic influence, see also Spirit possession # Christianity.

This is usually known as partial possession or demonic infestation, as opposed to outside demonic oppression which does not reside in any of the 3 parts of a person: body, soul, spirit.