His name, Beelzebul, used in the Gospels mainly in reference to demoniac possession, comes from the name of the god of Ekron, Baalzebub (II Kings 1).
The relaxed human and poetic qualities of the Pastoral set it apart from the Fifth and from the demoniac Symphony No. 7 in A Major (1812), with its expanded scherzo and trio, blazing finale, and spirited first movement preceded by a long modulatory introduction.
The Dybbuk, S. Ansky's tale of demoniac possession, was a particular success (1922).
A mandala, delineating a consecrated place and protecting it against disintegrating forces represented in demoniac cycles, is the geometric projection of the universe, spatially and temporally reduced to its essential plan.
He also drew pictures of weird and demoniac quality and, being of a haughty disposition and an eccentric, was regarded by many as either a madman or an anachronism.
The visions included demoniac assaults, conversations with angels, divinations, and glimpses of heaven and hell; the accounts of visions influenced medieval vision literature, of which they are considered a prototype.
He was the son of the demoniac god Loki and a giantess, Angerboda.
("One laughs in demoniac glee," he wrote, "but this laugh has a hollow sound").
On another occasion, Einstein described the impulse to grapple with his problems as "a demoniac possession," needing no stimulation from conscious effort of the will.
In a flash, the two men were on the ground with rags in their mouths, each one held by two of those demoniacs, while a third tied their hands behind them.
Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, who did pioneering work in this field among the insane patients of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, was nonetheless aware of the artistic importance of his photographs, even devoting two books to the subjects of "Demoniacs in Art" and "Deformities and Sickness in Art".
