单词 | ghost-demon |
释义 | > as lemmasghost-demon ghost-demon n. the deified or animate spirit of a deceased person (cf. ghost god n.).Cf. demon n. II. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > daemon ghost goda1638 ghost-demon1677 daimon1852 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 105 It was their custome to build Shrines or Temples at such places, where the bodies or ashes of their Ghost-Demons lay entombed. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. 103 Ancient and modern European tales of baleful ghost-demons. 2006 Smithsonian Sept. 58/1 The Rev. Johannes Veldhuizen had told me that Korowai he'd met had thought him a ghost-demon until they spied him bathing in a stream and saw that he came equipped with all the requisite parts of a yanop, or human being. < as lemmas |
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