demonophobia
English
Etymology
demon + -o- + -phobia
Noun
demonophobia (uncountable)
- An irrational fear of demons.
- 1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382:
- LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...
- 2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals, page 74:
- it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)
- 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434:
- The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.
- 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434:
- Demonophobia may take the epidemic form.
A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.
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