Meaning of demonophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

An irrational fear of demons.

uncountable

Examples

“LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...”

“it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)”

“The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.”

“Demonophobia may take the epidemic form. A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.”

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