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...enough of a storyteller to never let us go too long without some adventure. Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion. In issue 18 she slips into the anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters the demon Asmodeus. In this world of rage and hate, he appears to her as a giant spider. Then, with a typically clever bit humor, once Promethea gets a hold of herself and apologizes for intruding, Asmodeus changes into a English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pow! Biff! Enlightenment! | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

Joan of the Angels? (Film Polski; Telepix) is a beautiful, full-bodied young woman possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Women | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in the center of a forehead; there, Enemy of the Virgin in the neck; Asmodeus (in Hebraic lore, king of the demons) snuggled in a groin; Concupiscence at home in the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Devil with the Women | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

BOSTON MUSEUM. 7.45 P.M. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday, at 2. To-night, and Sat. Matinee, Boucicault's "Old Heads and Young Hearts," with Mr. Warren as Jesse Rural. Saturday evening, Miss Martinot's benefit, - the "Spark," "Asmodeus," and the "Little Rebel." March 29, "Robinsonnade," and "The Lark," which promise to be very amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

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