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Brewer's: Serpent
An attribute of St. Cecilia, St. Euphemia, and many other saints, either because they trampled on Satan, or because they miraculously cleared some country of such reptiles. (See Dagon.)…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Past
The PastThe debt is paid, The verdict said, The Furies laid, The plague is stayed. All fortunes made; Turn the key and bolt the door, Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart…The Devil's Dictionary: Incubus
by Ambrose Bierce INCOMPOSSIBLEINCUMBENTINCUBUS -n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a…Dar Williams
The Green WorldRazor & Tie Say this much about Dar Williams. She is taking the road less traveled. After all, who else is writing songs based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's book Satan in…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: I Hae Been At Crookieden
by Robert Burns Ye Jacobites By NameO Kenmure's On And Awa, WillieI Hae Been At Crookieden I Hae been at Crookieden, My bonie laddie, Highland laddie, Viewing Willie and…The Devil's Dictionary: Smithareen
by Ambrose Bierce SLANGSOPHISTRYSMITHAREEN -n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variously, but in the following verse on a noted female reformer who opposed…The Devil's Dictionary: Lead
by Ambrose Bierce LAZINESSLEARNINGLEAD -n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is…Elaine Hiesey Pagels Biography
Elaine Hiesey Pagelsreligious historianBorn: 2/13/1943Birthplace: Palo Alto, California Elaine Pagels is a scholar who has achieved popular as well as academic success. Most of her…Elaine Hiesey Pagels
Elaine Hiesey Pagelsreligious historianBorn: 2/13/1943Birthplace: Palo Alto, California Elaine Pagels is a scholar who has achieved popular as well as academic success. Most of her…Marilyn Manson Biography
Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner)rock musicianBorn: 1/5/1969Birthplace: Canton, Ohio With such album titles as Smells Like Children (1995) and Antichrist Superstar (1996), with stage outfits and…Trending
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