When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers to be evil.

* " When the most wicked member of a tribe becomes its ruler, and the most worthless member of a community becomes its leader, and a man is respected through fear of the evil he may do, and leadership is given to people who are unworthy of it, expect the Day of Judgment.

When he took it to his cabin to translate it, he unleashed its evil spirits by accident.

He is the author of a best selling book on the problem of evil, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

When Lois Lane unknowingly receives a Red Kryptonite necklace, it causes Superman to turn evil causing Batman and Krypto to hold off Superman until the effects wore off.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

When he did raise his voice with the German occupiers, it was either to ensure that the Vatican City state would not be compromised – that is to say, he would be safe – or to emphasise his own neutrality in a conflict which, for many, became a battle between good and evil.

When asked by a reporter whether he still thought the Soviet Union was an " evil empire ," Reagan responded that he no longer did, and that when he used the term it was a " different era "; that is, the period before Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms.

When Taira no Masakado was secretly preparing for his famous revolt, there appeared in Kyoto so vast a swarm of butterflies that the people were frightened — thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil.

When anger spreads, when a man becomes angry, he has no shame, no fear of evil, is not respectful in speech.

When a telepath is brought in to interrogate the evil scientist, the drug peddler shoots himself with Dust Devil's pistol.

When the wedding comes to an end, and Aschenputtel and her prince march out of the church, the doves fly again, striking the remaining eyes of the two evil sisters blind, a punishment they have to endure for the rest of their lives.

When asked by critics as to an overarching theme for the film Hitchcock responded: " Love and good order is no defense against evil ".

When Kalfu mounts a person, everyone at the service stops speaking because he allows evil Loa to come to the ceremony.

When declaring him the second-scariest character on television ( behind only Mr. Burns of The Simpsons ) in 2005, MSNBC's Brian Bellmont described Cartman as a " bundle of pure, unadulterated evil all wrapped up in a fat — er, big-boned — cartoony package " who " takes a feral delight in his evildoing ".

When asked whether Waluigi was a brother to Wario, Martinet stated that while he did not know, he felt that they were just " two nice, evil guys who found each other.

When the evil scientist Superia offered Captain America a cure, Captain America refused it because Superia said that Captain America would " owe her ".

When man stops offering yagna to the gods, Vishnu himself will descend to earth to rid the world of evil.

When the time came that he should be brought out of Newgate to Smithfield, the place of his execution, Mr. Woodroofe, one of the sheriffs, first came to Mr. Rogers, and asked him if he would revoke his abominable doctrine, and the evil opinion of the Sacrament of the altar.

When " Daddy " Warbucks offers a large reward for Annie's recovery, an evil mortgage holder threatens not only the Silo farm but Annie's happiness and security.

When the wise sage Zordon becomes aware of the release of the evil which he was responsible for capturing so long ago, he orders his robotic assistant Alpha 5 to select five " teenagers with attitude " to defend the Earth from Rita's attacks.

When he is in the middle of the valley amidst the gloom and terror he hears the words of the Twenty-third Psalm, spoken possibly by his friend Faithful: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

When a person bears testimony, they are testifying about the present, whether it be good or evil.

When British came to Sosaria, the evil wizard named Mondain was still young.

When the Elves were discovered by the Vala Oromë, each clan chose an ambassador to return with him to Valinor to verify his claims of its greatness.

When the evil Vala Morgoth was defeated, Eönwë took the two remaining Silmarils and held them for safekeeping.

When Vala tells SG-1 about the Ori army approaching, the communication link is severed.

When producer Robert C. Cooper presented his preliminary script for the series finale, " Unending ", both Black and Shanks protested his intended story of having Vala and Daniel sleep together without a confrontation.

When Vala meets her father Jacek ( Fred Willard ) in " Family Ties ", Vala shows " a slightly more dramatic and vulnerable side " that was new to the audience.

When the choir of the Ainur finally embark on the fully collaborative elaboration of Ilúvatar ’ s grand plan, Melkor participates with all the others, yet he stands forth and inserts his very different thematic adornments, which disrupts the harmony.

When Melkor returned to Middle-earth from Valinor, now bearing the epithet Morgoth, he was attacked by Ungoliant, a spider-like creature ; and his piercing scream drew the Balrogs out of hiding to his rescue.

When Melkor was released from captivity, he fled to Avathar, scaled the mountains with the help of Ungoliant, and wrought destruction in Aman: he persuaded Ungoliant to kill the Two Trees of Valinor and take from them what energy she could to quench her hunger, as Ungoliant ( see also Shelob ) was always hungry.

When the Númenóreans came under the influence of Sauron, they cut down Nimloth as a sacrifice to Melkor.

When the ruse was discovered, Chang had to make a choice: fight the fight he had waited for his whole life, or defend his people against the threat Melkor.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).