Word: devildom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week precisely the crazed medieval orgy of Devildom described above was reproduced in modern Hamburg when rust ate through a commonplace-looking tank and something began to escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have...
...Devildom...
...from the 12th Century to the 18th. They existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic, what did the witches and sorcerers indisputably do? Their deeds fill this bulky volume?with...
...imagination, they are here presented as a social class more debased than the modern criminal, more obstinately convinced of the efficacy of their anti-social theories than the modern Communist. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and other shrewd Elizabethans were, it is suggested, no fools when they gave to Devildom the large place it occupied upon their stage. Much which later authors have deodorized is here presented "high"? that some may avert their noses, and others sniff like connoisseurs of Roquefort...
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