Word: demon
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...turning so that all could see. Then his assistants cut off its hooves and placed one each at the four corners of the building. None of the villagers was quite sure what the sacrifice was for. Some said the family who lived in the house wanted to exorcise a demon. Others said the priest was invoking the spirits to help the village cricket team win that day's tournament...
Members of the Penan tribe of northeastern Borneo know that Batu Lawi, a 2,000-m sheer limestone pinnacle, is a demon-haunted place to be avoided at all costs. To Bruno Manser, however, Batu Lawi represented everything he loved about the untouched forest of the region. He almost perished trying to reach its summit in 1988. As he told friends, he spent 24 hours hanging from a rope, unable to reach the rock face. Only a desperate swing brought him within grabbing distance of the rock...
...shortage of material on the subject. Alongside some noxious self-help manuals, there have been remarkable personal accounts - William Styron's Darkness Visible, A. Alvarez's A Savage God - and excellent academic texts like Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast. But Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression (Chatto & Windus; 560 pages) is poised to become the book for a generation that, more than any other, has this "living death" at its core...
...contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, Solomon interweaves a personal narrative with scientific, philosophical, historical, political and cultural insights into what he describes as "the demon that visits at noon," when one least expects it. The result is an elegantly written, meticulously researched book that is empathetic and enlightening, scholarly and useful...
...Harvard faced fourth-seeded Wake Forest in the first round, a game that sent the Crimson home with a 6-3 loss. Harvard exchanged goals with the Demon Deacons for the first 40 minutes of the game, but Wake Forest scored three unanswered goals to advance to the next round...