daemon

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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

And that little standoff between her daemon, the Golden Monkey, and the Spectre, right after the witch is killed in Cittàgazze—how does it relate to this journey that Mrs. Coulter is making?

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

The BBC, by contrast, is seeing the epic drama through from the opening glass of tokay to the concluding moment, when Lyra's daemon mutates into a pine marten.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2020

Well, my son responded to the sights, sounds, smells, lights, queues and endless wooden-arts-and-crafts stalls as if he were my daemon.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

“While she was here, her daemon was coming out of our bedroom. He’s been spying. He knows about the alethiometer!”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman