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  • noun Plural form of daimon.

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Examples

  • Sorcerors are people who do magic by summoning and binding daimons aka demons and forcing them to do their bidding.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • In May’s view, the daimonic, “the entire system of motives, different for each individual” Boeree, 2006, ¶ 17, composed of individual motifs referred to as daimons, is the basis for motivation.

    Individual Psychology versus Existential Psychology: A Typology Approach William Harryman 2009

  • Contrary to popular belief, not all daimons are evil.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • The question is: how do we call forth our daimons to empower us to deal with our demons?

    Alison Rose Levy: Stressed this Political Season? 2008

  • And a crack quatyouare of stenoggers they made of themselves, solons and psy — chomorers, all told, with their hurts and daimons, spites and clops, not even to the seclusion of their beast by them that was the odd trick of the pack, trump and no friend of carrots.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • From A Field Guide to Demons... by Carol Mack and Dinah Mack: Hesiod refers to innumerable invisible daimons who belong to two categories, guardian spirits and "evil spirits of disease that can cause harm."

    HH Com 476 Miss Snark 2006

  • There's mention of the Odyssey treating daimons as supernatural forces.

    HH Com 476 Miss Snark 2006

  • And as i listen to the cd that i made for daimons birthday and write about the breakup with sal, it occurs to me that im walking out of a tornado.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2005

  • It is interesting to note (considering Enoch states that the spirits of the dead sons of the Watchers became 'demons') that the ancient Greeks should have had an intuitive recognition of the significance of such 'demons' (or daimons) as their guiding geniuses, the inspirers of the arts of culture which became the glory of their Civilization.

    The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #8 1991

  • The ranks of the defenders screened the body, they saw only the spread wings of the gold daimons and their fierce alien eyes.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

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