Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 432
r-ingian legends relate that the Devil tries to stop thebuilding of churches by casting down the stones, but thismay be stopped by the builders promising to erect a wine-house in the same neighbourhood. An old English legendrelates that a great mans cellar was haunted by devilswho drank up his… … THE VA TIC A N HA UN TED. 417 demons are travestied in such devils as these, only thediabolical, as distinguished from the demonic element,appears in features of luxuriousness. The contrastbetween the starveling saints of the early Church andthe well-fed friars of later times was a frequent…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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