theomania

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It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.

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  1. Insanity in which the patient imagines himself to be the Deity, or fancies that the Deity dwells in him; also, demonomania.

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  • It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism. —  The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek θεομανία, madness caused by God, inspiration, from θεός, god, + μανία, madness: see mania.
 

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