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Updated: June 16, 2025
Of these theories the commonest was and is the demonic, the view that regards deviation from the normal state of health as due either to the attacks of supernatural beings or to their actual entry into the body of the sufferer.
To me, it wanted simply to manifest the full meaning of its name. But what was this "It"? To some, apparently, a vague demonic power; to me an individualized being, B's earthquake, namely. One informant interpreted it as the end of the world and the beginning of the final judgment.
"Well, then whip me, or I shall go mad." "Haven't I forbidden you," said Wanda sternly, "but you are incorrigible." "Oh, I am so terribly in love." I had sunken on my knees, and was burying my glowing face in her lap. "I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully, "that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses.
It may be that the pains of delivery were ascribed to the machinations of demonic powers, or possession by evil spirits, we know that this has sometimes been the case. The use of charms and amulets, and the chanting of sacred formulæ at this dangerous time all point to such beliefs.
Therefore it is no wonder that here every violation of the ancient order of life of the wandering nomad tribes is transformed into streams of red blood and horror, ministering to the demonic pleasure of Satan couched on the bare mountains and robed in the grey cloak of dejection and sadness, or in the purple mantle of war and vengeance.
Even when some fairly good form of organization has been reached it is often hard to say to which class a particular figure belongs. The Navaho beings called yei and anaye seem to hover on the border line between the divine and the demonic classes. In such a case a given figure may easily pass from one class into the other.
Again, that which is sublime, god-like, demonic, must not be dwelt upon, simply because it is impossible or difficult to copy.
But it is, at any rate, a beautiful work of imaginative art, and it lends life a certain dignity that nothing can quite replace. As a matter of fact, the natural man's attitude to these things does not differ much from the attitude of the great artists. It is only that a certain lust for creation, and a certain demonic curiosity, scourge these latter on to something beyond passive resignation.
To suffer and endure cruel torture from then on seemed to me exquisite delight, especially when it was inflicted by a beautiful woman, for ever since I can remember all poetry and everything demonic was for me concentrated in woman. I literally carried the idea into a sort of cult. "I felt there was something sacred in sex; in fact, it was the only sacred thing.
Life would be a sort of demonic vortex, boiling at the centre and omnivorous at the circumference, till it finally realised the supreme vocation of vortices, to have "their centre everywhere and their circumference nowhere."
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