Zachary Mitchell

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We still use the word “pandemonium” (literally, all demons). A crazed and violent person is still said to be demonic. (Not until the eighteenth century was mental illness no longer generally ascribed to supernatural causes; even insomnia had been considered a punishment inflicted by demons.)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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