Lexicographical Neighbors of Alastors
Literary usage of Alastors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the edited by Charles McClellan Stevans, Cora Linn (Morrison) Daniels (1903)
"(Shelley has a poem on alastors.) Goblin-foxes are peculiarly feared in Izumo (Japan),
because they take diabolical possession of people, tormenting them ..."
2. The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning by Oliphant (Margaret) (1882)
"... yet great and imposing as the marbles of the gods, which came suddenly forth
from amidst the alastors and Laons, and their swamps and marshes of verse, ..."
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