kakodæmon

plural kakodæmons

1. alternativeAlternative form of cacodemon.

   ‘Even the storms, even the waves, not merely the kakodæmons, give way before him.’

   1809, “[The Appendix to the Critical Review.] Art. I.—Commentar über das neue Testament. Von H. E. G. Paulus. 8vo. Lubeck. 1808. Commentary on the New Testament, by H. E. G. Paulus. 4 Vols. 8vo.”, in The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, series the third, volume XVI, number V, London: […] J. Mawman, […], page 471

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   Mr. Madden seems to think that literary men are often haunted by a ‘kakodæmon’—his own kakodæmon seems to be the spirit of self-contradiction; for after Sir Walter has been thus produced and applauded in a work on the Infirmities of Genius, as a genius without infirmity, Mr. Madden takes a sudden turn, and discovers that he was afflicted, like Cowper, Burns, and Byron, with one of ‘the extreme forms of dyspepsia;’ […]

   1833 October, “The Infirmities of Genius illustrated by referring the Anomalies of the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius. By R. R. Madden, […]”, in The Quarterly Review, volume L, London: John Murray, […], published 1834, pages 47–48

   The conceits of Eudæmons and Kakodæmons of the oldest mythologists; the theurgy and demonology of the most superstitious heathens; the most fanciful religious notions of many East Indians, their Dews, Amshadpans, Izeds, Fervers, & c.; what are all these compared with Hahnemann’s virtues developed from one grain of a simple drug, “developed by art and not by reason of the original matter,” (Concise View, page 14.) developed ad infinitum at his pleasure with different degrees of power from all natural substances by his homœopathic manipulations!—powers acting not only with volition, but with the most judicious medical reflection, since they either suspend their action, when it appears to them better to do so; […]

   1835, William Leo-Wolf, Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century; or on Dr. Samuel Hahnemann’s Homœopathic Medicine, […], New York, N.Y.: […] Carey, Lea and Blanchard, in Philadelphia, page 201

   Kak (Eg.), Gig (Akkadian) is Darkness, the Shadow of the Night, a name of the Black One, and Inner Africa is the primæval home of the Kakodæmon who, as Kakios, was the stealer of the cows which he had dragged into his cave, when Hercules forced his way into the monster’s den and, in spite of the flames and smoke which Kakios vomited, overcame him and rescued the cattle and recovered the rest of the stolen treasures.

   1883, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis: or Second Part of A Book of the Beginnings, Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace, volume I, London: Williams and Norgate, […], page 266

   The word demon frequently occurs in both the Old and New Testaments, and is there translated devil; but that was by no means its acceptation among the Greeks, for we have frequent mention of agathodæmons (good demons) as well as kakodæmons (evil demons), which were supposed to be supernatural spiritual existences that accompanied or took possession of individuals, especially of the insane.

   1884, “DEMON”, in The National Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, volume IV, London: William Mackenzie, […], Edinburgh and Glasgow, page 464, column 1

   The early Christians—besides the Ophite Gnostics—had their dual Logos: the Good and the Bad Serpent, the Agathodæmon and the Kakodæmon.

   1888, H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, 2nd edition, volume I (Cosmogenesis), London: The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited, […], page 410