Sentence examples for demonic magic from inspiring English sources

Mackenzie Crook, Tom Brooke and Danny Kirrane are all impressive in supporting roles, but the triumph belongs to Rylance for perfectly embodying Butterworth's vision of a vanished demonic magic.

Wier denied many of the wild stories about Agrippa's association with devils and also his authorship of a work of undeniably demonic magic, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, which was published in 1559.

But what is most interesting is that Patrizi did not employ these texts in the way that fanatical Hermeticists like Bruno did, who saw therein a justification for the practice of spiritual and demonic magic and a basis for undermining the authority of the Christian church as a "triumphant beast", perverting the "true" religion of the ancient Egyptians.

His attention to the latter sources placed him in the middle of the growing debate on the authenticity and philosophical merit, if any, of the "ancient theology" and the practice of spiritual and demonic magic by such contemporary thinkers as the unfortunate Giordano Bruno.

Orléans' reputation was severely damaged by the event, compounded by an episode a few years earlier in which he was accused of sorcery after hiring an apostate monk to imbue a ring, dagger and sword with demonic magic.

Its composer, Carl Maria von Weber, took a German folk tale about a huntsman who uses diabolic magic bullets to win a shooting contest, studded it with folk songs and Italianate scenas and crowned it with the well-known Wolf's Glen scene in which the hero, Max, and the evil huntsman, Caspar, cast the bullets at midnight in a cloud of demonic spirits.

Once we've sat through an hour of tedious psychobabble, Shelter becomes a jumble of hillbilly black magic, demonic soundwaves and other pulpy conceits that cry out for some tongue-in-cheek bravado, but the film sticks to a grey, miserable tone that makes it more depressing than scary.

The third type, demonic or ceremonial magic, aroused the greatest suspicion.

His tendency to explain miraculous acts by explaining them away, even miracles from the lives of the saints and the Bible, such as the stigmata of St. Francis and the speckling of Laban's sheep by Jacob's rod, is even more obvious in Book Three, on demonic or ceremonial magic.

The murderous band plays on fears of magic and demonic possession.

Purification also is generally considered necessary after any kind of traffic with the demonic forces and black magic, because these contacts with the nether realm are viewed as polluting experiences.