Mokanna

It was from the sewer of Munster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge.

Les Miserables 2008

"An outcry " "Mokanna has arisen" " swept through Afghanistan" None of the tribesmen who, as you suspect, and rightly, still hold the Mokanna tradition had any idea that you or any human influence had been concerned with the eruption which reduced a lonely shrine to a dusty hollow.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

The Mask of Fu Manchu details the Chinese mastermind's failed attempt to revive the cult of Mokanna, 'the Hidden One, sometimes called the Veiled Prophet-:

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

The Mask of Fu Manchu details the Chinese mastermind's failed attempt to revive the cult of Mokanna, 'the Hidden One, sometimes called the Veiled Prophet-:

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

"An outcry " "Mokanna has arisen" " swept through Afghanistan" None of the tribesmen who, as you suspect, and rightly, still hold the Mokanna tradition had any idea that you or any human influence had been concerned with the eruption which reduced a lonely shrine to a dusty hollow.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

This parallel might serve as a warning of the measures to which the oppressed Catholics may be driven, though it also risks additional conflicting effects, as Brown notes of the "Veiled Prophet's" depictions of imperialism: that "Europe's imperial dreams are justified in these elaborate fantasiesbut so is Great Britain's sound government of an Ireland that is prey to fanaticisms and irrationalities of the kind Mokanna represents" (24).

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

The years of Methuselah and the pen of Juvenal would not suffice to exhaust the list, or depict the benighted state into which we had fallen; but it can be asserted of the popular idols of the day that unveiled, they resemble Mokanna, and can each exclaim:

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

I say, we were all right, the spectral Mokanna dropped his long veil, and his waiting-slave put a sensitive tablet under its folds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

Mokanna, and (incidentally) we may remark that Rum is a product resulting from the manufacture of the saccharine plant, and we fear that many samples of this aromatic liquid may have found their way into the editorial sanctum of our esteemed and valued contemporary in Mackay.

Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884

The years of Methuselah and the pen of Juvenal would not suffice to exhaust the list, or depict the benighted state into which we had fallen; but it can be asserted of the popular idols of the day that unveiled, they resemble Mokanna, and can each exclaim:

Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction. 1879