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Brewer's: Salt in a Coffin
It is still not uncommon to put salt into a coffin, and Moresin tells us the reason; Satan hates salt, because it is the symbol of incorruption and immortality. (Papatus, p. 154.) Source…Brewer's: Plotcock
The old Scotch form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant. Chaucer calls Plato the “king of Faërie,” and Dunbar names him “Pluto the elrich incubus.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Warlock
A wandering evil spirit; a wizard. (Anglo-Saxon, woer-loga, a deceiver, one who breaks his word. Satan is called in Scripture “the father of lies,” the…Brewer's: Zephon
[scarcher of secrets]. The cherub despatched by Gabriel to find Satan, after his flight from hell. Ithuriel goes with him. (Milton: Paradise Lost, iv. 788-796.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: The Adversary
Satan. (1 Peter v, 8.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AdvocateAdvent A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Azazel
The scape-goat; so called by the Jews, because the high priest cast lots on two goats; one lot was for the Lord, and the other lot Azazel or Satan, and the goat on which the latter lot…Brewer's: Mephistopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus
A sneering, jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in Goethe's Faust. He is next in rank to Satan. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Diable
(Le). Olivier Ledain, the tool of Louis XI., and once the king's barber. So called because he was as much feared as his Satanic Majesty, and even more disliked. (Hanged 1484.) Robert le…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Kellyburn Braes
by Robert Burns Lady Mary AnnThe Slave's LamentKellyburn Braes There lived a carl in Kellyburn Braes, Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi' thyme; And he had a wife was the…Brewer's: Caliban
Rude, uncouth, unknown; as a Caliban style, a Caliban language. The allusion is to Shakespeare's Caliban (The Tempestnew creation, but also a new language. “Satan had not the privilege, as…Trending
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