Word: satanic
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...reunified Jerusalem in 1967, the population has climbed from 275,000 to 407,000, and more than 1.1 million visitors pour in every year. The fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats-Jerusalem has a remarkable...
...Primeval Snake, the Evil One, Satan. The Cabala refers to me as Samael and the Jews sometimes call me merely 'that...
...automatically do a mental calculation discounting the rhetoric, the fact is that different auditors discount at different rates. It is often difficult to know just how much exaggeration is involved, and how much truth. If Iranians pumping their fists in the air describe the U. S. the "Great Satan," how much of that is homicidal hostility, how much is merely Persian literary style...
...childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem instinctively to regard fear or hatred in people as a signal to antagonize visitors. Many owners...
...could stoop as low as any other good actor. With Lee Remick and some kid with three 6's on his scalp, The Omen did provide Hollywood with some rather ingenious ways of killing priests, photographers and nannies as it depicted the story of the son of Satan and his early years as a young rake...