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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

I was always brooding over this idea of the daemonic with which my mind was filled.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

Standing in sight of the white way by which he had come he beheld advancing towards him the horses and carriage he sought, now black and daemonic against the slanting fires of the western sun.

From The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Hardy, Thomas