daemon
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“I’d love to have a daemon that can blow dry my hair for me,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
In this episode, you see the tie between her relationship with her daemon and her relationship with the Spectres.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
The BBC, by contrast, is seeing the epic drama through from the opening glass of tokay to the concluding moment, when Lyra's daemon mutates into a pine marten.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2020
“What do you think, sir?” said John Faa to the witch’s daemon.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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