Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. ... The original concept of a blood-sucking demon seems to have been first discovered by Homer in Odyssey when Odysseus found out that the demons need blood to restore their vitality. ... The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Following the publication of Patmore's poem, the term angel in the house came to be used in reference to women...

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Beliefs in demons and the Devil represent this personification of evil forces perceived as external to our conscious control. ... Cicero employed lares (deified ancestors) for daimones and Apuleius tried genius (a guardian angel) for daimon. ... The civilizations of Mesopotamia and Syria shaped the Western concept of demons and the Devil most directly (Luck 1985, 165). The demons of Mesopotamia were usually hostile spirits and lower than the gods in both dignity and power (Russell 1977, 92). ... There were demons of plagues, graveyards, nightmares, headaches, and so forth. ...

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This is the scene where Father Lankester Marring (Max von Sodom), the exorcist, unearths a small artifact bearing the likeliness of a demon named Pazuzu. ... Watching the actions of Regan is very disturbing; the image of a child is always an angelic one. ... Remarkably, the demon uses Regan as a mouthpiece to speak Latin and French. ... Christianity has traditionally taught that Satan and his hordes of demons roam about the world attempting to harm, harass, and destroy humans (61). ... Throughout the church's history, it has identified evil spirits in demon-possessed individuals and t...

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Other blood-drinking demons of old include foxes in Japan and a severed head with entrails hanging down in Malaysia. ... The idea of the vampire was said to have originated as the lamia, an ancient Greek demon with the head and torso of a woman and the body of a winged serpent. This demon retained many qualities which vampires have been known to possess, including drinking blood of children or seducing men and then exhausting them, emerging at night, living in secluded caves, and having the ability to transform into other figures, including a beautiful woman. ... There had been earlier accou...

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As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... Satan disobeys God, and the uprising led by him in the Heaven results in the fall of Satan and angels from the light to darkness and suffering. ... Milton presents Satan an Archangel in Heaven, which is a high rank in the hierarchy of angels (Milton 195). Nevertheless, his pride, defiance, and desire to gain more authority than God makes him rebel against God and event...

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It is obvious through the many works of Edgar Allan Poe, that the author's life was marked with much tragedy in regards to women. Several of his poems seem to be a direct reflection of his trials in life having to deal with the death or loss of many of the women who were very close to him. Some o...

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Although there are many mysteries within the history of the ancient Egyptians, it is clear that religion was a profound part of their lives. Throughout Egypt there are religious scriptures written on the walls of temples about the Gods and their beliefs. Throughout time there was much destruction do...

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Ahab's obsession with the whale stems in part from the injury that it caused him but also from the fact that he views the whale as " all that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all the truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick" (Melville (1), 175). ... Struck dead by an angel of god! Yet the angel must hang!" ... A critic believes that " Vere associates the gross deception, in...

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Vainly, I tried to borrow happiness from my books in order to quell my own sadness- sorrow for the lost Lenore, the rare and radiant maiden named by angels, never again to be mentioned here on earth (9-12). ... Then, I imagine, the air grew thicker, scented from something unseen raised by angels whose faint footsteps tapped on the floor covered with tufted carpet (79-80). "Rat,"" I cried, "your God has sent you with these angels to ease the pain and induce forgetfulness of sorrow from the memories of Lenore; let me gulp this drug and forget the dead Lenore!... His eyes have all the ...

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An Insight Into Revelation The book of Revelation is the last profound book in the New Testament. It conveys the significant purpose of Christianity by describing God's plan for the world and his final judgement of the people by reinforcing the importance of faith and the concept of Christiani...

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In all of the religions of the world, one of the primary questions that they are to answer is that of the meaning of life and life after death. As long as man has been self-aware and cognizant of the passage of time, he has operated with the knowledge that he, at some time as a mortal man, must end his life and die. He is naturally unable to ascertain the nature of his purpose in life and what may pertain after death, and soon begins to develop an explanation for what happens to him, or his essence when he passes that barrier. The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined...

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Renaissance in England was a period of pomp, show and glitter, marked with growing sense of beauty and an increasing enrichment of life made through adventures, bravery and excess. The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit of freedom, introducing a note of patriotism and national glorification, and also accompanying a revolt against the authority of the Pope. It was an age keeping pace with the bold adventures of men discovering new lands, and full of the work of scientists like Copernicus who had revealed man's t...

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The phrase is defined as a messenger or angel of Satan.18 The connotation of this phrase brings us back into ambiguity. ... To an original audience who are much more aware of demon possession than we are, perhaps Paul is relating his thorn for the flesh as such. ...

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Saint Thomas noted that this type of reasoning can provide knowledge of God's nature, or even prove his existence, but can never result in the person attaining salvation for as he states, even demons know that God exists. ...

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OUTCOME Thesis Statement: A feministic approach on Wuthering Heights which displays women's rebellion against patriarchal society by showing Catherine as a rebel against her father and her husband and by creating Isabel and Catherine as two contradictory characters. I. Introduction A. Women's position during Victorian Age and Bronte sisters B. Emily Bronte's life conditions and their effects on Wuthering Heights C. ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. The prison is described as a, "wooden jail...already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy fr...

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Akbar the Great was born on October 15, 1542, in Umarkot in Sindh. He was proclaimed emperor in 1556 under the tutelage of his father's (Humayun) trusted military commander, Bairam Khan. By 1560, Akbar took the complete reign of the empire into his own hands. Akbar's was an apotheosis of rule in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. The British who came few decades later found Akbar's system of administration as their precursor. ...

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