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diabolism

[dahy-ab-uh-liz-uhm] / daɪˈæb əˌlɪz əm /








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In addition to lending primacy to the Hanlons’ perspectives, “Welcome to Derry” also takes viewers inside the Indigenous community pushed to the town’s outskirts to explore their relationship to the diabolism known as It.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025

Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2020

Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Pendle: a place synonymous with witches and Britain's most notorious diabolism trials.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2012

Still, be warned: “The Sorcery Club” may seem an example of dated turn-of-the-century diabolism, but I wouldn’t try any of its weird invocations at home.

From Washington Post

Look you! a savage thinks that there is a diabolism in the self-action of a watch—in the reflection of a looking-glass.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth


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