demonophobia

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...

1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382

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)

2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals, page 74

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.

2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434