diabolism
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In addition to lending primacy to the Hanlons’ perspectives, “Welcome to Derry” also takes viewers inside the Indigenous community pushed to the town’s outskirts to explore their relationship to the diabolism known as It.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2020
Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Pendle: a place synonymous with witches and Britain's most notorious diabolism trials.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2012
Still, be warned: “The Sorcery Club” may seem an example of dated turn-of-the-century diabolism, but I wouldn’t try any of its weird invocations at home.
From Washington Post
Yet by his colossal personality he dominated the vast assemblage and inspired the orchestra to such feats of dynamic diabolism as entirely eclipsed the most momentous achievements of any full-grown conductor from Nero to Nikisch.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various