"Daemon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Daemon of Fire, fairest of all elements, fairest, purest, divinest, Spirit of Life and Power, that ...
— The Masque of the Elements • Herman Scheffauer
... Scott's chief sources of recited balladry; and probably they sometimes improved, in making their copies, the materials won from the failing memories of the old. Thus Laidlaw, while tenant in Traquair Knowe, obtained from recitation, The Daemon Lover. Scott does not tell us whether or not he knew the fact that Laidlaw wrote in stanza 6 (half of it traditional), stanza 12 (also a ballad formula), stanzas 17 and 18 (necessary to complete the sense; the last two lines of 18 are ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... a curious thing. We have seen how a spirit, a daemon, and perhaps ultimately a god, develops out of an actual rite. Dionysos the Tree-God, the Spirit of Vegetation, is but a maypole once perceived, then remembered and conceived. Dionysos, the Bull-God, is but the actual ...
— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison |
