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(occult, often Chinese mysticism) Of, relating to, or resembling a demonifuge..
This refers to a demonifugic talisman endorsed in the Shangqing tradition. See Robinet, Taoist Meditation, p. 32.
Among the flora and fauna mentioned in the older sections of the Classic of the Mountains and the Seas, thirty-nine species are mentioned as having medicinal (primarily demonifugic) value and twenty-nine were worn on the body for protection against demons.
Marriage, like any other symbol of the cosmic center, bestows demonifugic power. Just as the Chu Ci poet draws the Bow of Heaven to do battle with evil, so the True Consort looks forward to an escort of demonifugic beasts
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Demonifugic means (occult, often Chinese mysticism) Of, relating to, or resembling a demonifuge..
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This refers to a demonifugic talisman endorsed in the Shangqing tradition. See Robinet, Taoist Meditation, p. 32.
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