Word: belial
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...Simply glance at it you grovel/Hand and foot in Belial's gripe," the monk goes on to say in Robert Browning's poem, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, about an otherwise unidentified book...
Hand and foot in Belial's gripe...
...star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples of the lewd fiend Belial." One gay dawn in 1856, the place burned down again, scattering and sobering the disciples...
Sacrifice to Satan. In the crypt of the chapel at Tiffauges, he gathered alchemists from all over Europe. They staged satanic orgies, sacrificing one after another of the child singers on the altar while begging the four principal figures of demonology-Satan, Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch-to help them turn base metal into gold. In 1440 Gilles was arrested and tried for murder. Before he was hanged at the age of 36, he confessed that he had presided over the murders of 140 children...
...Essenes. For "when we review all the material in the Dead Sea scrolls literature, we cannot help feeling that the Dead Sea sect organized itself in an exact as possible replica of the life of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would 'reenter' the 'new Land of Promise.' There could be no stronger appeal to the hearts and minds of the people descending from the Dead Sea sect than...