Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 75
and devils, they are representedas very lean. The exceptions will be found generally incertain Southern and tropical demons which representcloud or storm—Typhon, for instance—and present aswollen or bloated appearance. No Northern devil is fat.Shakespeare ascribes to Csesar a suspicion of leanness—… … Fig. 4.—St. Anthonys Lean Persecutor (Salvator Rosa). from all the Hunger-demons ; it interprets the old sayingsthat a devil, however fair in front, may be detected byhollowness of the back, and that he is usually so thin asto cast no shadow.^ ^ Csesarius DHeisterbach, Miracul. iii. SACRIJPICES. 55…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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