"Daemon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Crete or elsewhere danced at night over the mountains in the Oreibasia or Mountain Walk they not only did things that seemed beyond their ordinary workaday strength; they also felt themselves led on and on by some power which guided and sustained them. This daemon has no necessary name: a man may be named after him 'Oreibasius', 'Belonging to the Mountain Dancer', just as others may be named 'Apollonius' or 'Dionysius'. The god is only the spirit of the Mountain Dance, Oreibates, though of course he is absorbed ...
— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray
... exultant and jubilant, showing signs of remarkable devotion, till the crowing of the cock. Then, as if secure in the Lord, she said to the bystanders, "What should we do if the fiend showed himself to us?" And shortly afterwards, with a loud and clear voice, "Fly! fly!" as if repelling the daemon.' ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley
... wood-daemon has lightened your steps. I can find no trace of you in the larch-cones ...
— Sea Garden • Hilda Doolittle
... the current notions of the Greeks, and Romans; and more especially from the descriptions of their poets. Polytheism, originally vile, and unwarrantable, was rendered ten times more base by coming through their hands. To instance in one particular: among all the daemon herd what one is there of a form, and character, so odious, and contemptible as Priapus? an obscure ill-formed Deity, who was ridiculed and dishonoured by his very votaries. His hideous figure was made use of only as a bugbear to ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... Daemon of Fire, fairest of all elements, fairest, purest, divinest, Spirit of Life and Power, that ...
— The Masque of the Elements • Herman Scheffauer
... Scott's chief sources of recited balladry; and probably they sometimes improved, in making their copies, the materials won from the failing memories of the old. Thus Laidlaw, while tenant in Traquair Knowe, obtained from recitation, The Daemon Lover. Scott does not tell us whether or not he knew the fact that Laidlaw wrote in stanza 6 (half of it traditional), stanza 12 (also a ballad formula), stanzas 17 and 18 (necessary to complete the sense; the last two lines of 18 are ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... a curious thing. We have seen how a spirit, a daemon, and perhaps ultimately a god, develops out of an actual rite. Dionysos the Tree-God, the Spirit of Vegetation, is but a maypole once perceived, then remembered and conceived. Dionysos, the Bull-God, is but the actual ...
— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison |
