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名詞

kakodaimon (plural kakodaimons)

1. Alternative form of cacodemon.
   • 1900 February, J. M. Campbell, “Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom. […] Witchcraft and Magic.”, in Richard Carnac Temple, editor, The Indian Antiquary, a Journal of Oriental Research […], volume XXIX, Bombay: […] [T]he Education Society’s Press, Byculla. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., page 55:

     For meanwhile the Church had decided that all the classic influences, Eudaimons or Good Spirits as well as Kakodaimons or Bad Spirits were devils.

   • 1901, Frederick Baron Corvo [pseudonym; Frederick Rolfe], “About a Vegetable Purgatory”, in In His Own Image, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane: The Bodley Head, page 330:

     Because he was the friend of an archangel, the kakodaimons of the Brown Kingdom hated him; […]

   • 1907, The Church Standard, volumes 94–95, page 120, column 2:

     […] these kakodaimons seem to guard the very entrance into heaven; […]

   • 1920, William Rose Benét, “Legend of Michelotto”, in Moons of Grandeur: A Book of Poems, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 27:

     Yet, thou dark man, I shall not see thee more, / King of these kakodaimons—but a king!

   • 1931, Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, “The World of Shadows as Rival of the World of Light”, in Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy, London; Bombay; Sydney: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, booK I (Sorcerers), page 22:

     In the Egyptian, Grecian, and, above all, the Roman theogonies it is not always easily discernible whether the ‘spirits’ to which men appeal for help or success in their enterprises are good or evil, and Iamblichus and Porphyry exhibit a diverting confusion between angels and demons, good and evil spirits, eudaimons and kakodaimons.

   • 2015, Patrick Dunn, The Practical Art of Divine Magic: Contemporary & Ancient Techniques of Theurgy, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

     By making an offering to a kakodaimon, you obligate it to you and thus can direct it in healthier and more beneficial ways.

   • 2016, Adolf Bernhard Marx, translated by Stephen Thomson Moore, Recollections From My Life: An Autobiography by Adolf Bernhard Marx (Lives in Music Series; 14), Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     The Greeks already, and before them, the Persians, recognized good and evil demons (Agathodaimons and Kakodaimons); […]

   • 2021, Stephen Skinner, editor, Aleister Crowley’s Four Books of Magick, London: Watkins, →ISBN:

     “Depart all Kakodaimons [evil spirits].”

   • 2021, History of Monsters & Mythical Beasts, Bath: Future plc, page 85, column 1:

     Greek daimons could separated into the good spirits called eudaimons while their evil counterparts were the kakodaimons.