Word: demonism
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...India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded gongs and descended toward the sea to combat what they believed was a race...
...ground with rolling eyes, dilated pupils and a countenance first pale, then livid, to lie there writhing as if in the clutches of an invisible but murderous wrestler who twists his head in a series of jerks toward one or other shoulder, screws his limbs, contorts his body-a demon who causes him to bite his own tongue, eject the contents of his bowels and bladder, to bubble at the mouth with foam until his aspect becomes so shocking that it may well induce a similar attack in the beholder-this devil-ridden man may be an epileptic...
...Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
...sequel has shown, however, that religious fanatics are bent on securing the full measure the law allows. The demon, Evolution, is to be banished to the outer darkness while the solid Bryan phalanx is to remain master of the inner darkness...