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Heading backstage, my group’s leader played Healer Lenore, a self-help guru who used a question-and-answer session to cleanse us of daemonic energy — or at least make peace with it.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Tokarczuk sticks close to the historical record, but fills its gaps with made-up characters and charges the atmosphere with the daemonic energy of Jewish folk magic and a sense that God lurks nearby.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Giovanni Pisano, who died some time before 1320, was one of the daemonic figures of art.

From Time Magazine Archive

But older, and in part foreign, influences concurred to colour and qualify, while they sustained, the Nietzschean influence,—the daemonic power of Carlyle, the iron intensity and masterful reticence of Ibsen.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

She was a little daemonic wrecker; she often appeared to him like a little bird of prey, that would fain have made him, too, her booty.

From The Master Builder by Gosse, Edmund