demonophobia

English

Etymology

From demono- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

demonophobia (uncountable)

1. An irrational fear of demons.
   • 1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1‎^[1], page 382:

     LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...

   • 2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals‎^[2], page 74:

     it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)

   • 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6‎^[3], →ISBN, page 434:

     The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.

   • 2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6‎^[4], →ISBN, page 434:

     Demonophobia may take the epidemic form.
     A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.