Lemures

While some degree of political hugger-mugger is unavoidable in a game like this, the Jersey Devil takes no position on health care policy, and the Lemures care nothing about Iraq.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

Stoics held; but grovel on the ground as they were baser in their lives, nearer to the earth: and are Manes, Lemures, Lamiae, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Lemures or larvae, and Ursula, she said to me that she had been young, young as me; they were all human and now they are lemures/'

Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999

The Lemures were those Manes who haunted their former abodes on earth as evil spirits, appearing at night under awful forms and hideous shapes, greatly to the alarm of their friends and relatives.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

She seemed to feel in the air strange Furies, Lemures, things that had haunted her with their tomb-frenzied vindictiveness since she was a child and had pored over the illustrated Classical Dictionary.

The Lost Girl 1907

The [42] Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint;

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

A clear line of distinction was drawn between satisfied and beneficent ghosts like the Manes, and the unsatisfied and hostile ghosts like the Lemures and Larvae.

Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890

They are thirty-three in number, but in two cases we have groups instead of individuals, viz. the Lares and the Lemures: the plurality of the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Lares (_compitales_) we have already explained, and the Lemures, the ghosts of departed ancestors, we may also for the present leave out of account.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

I should observe by the way, "said the learned bishop, interrupting his own narrative," that scepticism will in vain attempt to account, by the latter cause, namely rats, for the spectres, Lemures, simulacra, and haunted houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878