demonifugic

English

Etymology

From demonifuge +‎ -ic.

Adjective

demonifugic

1. (occult, often Chinese mysticism) Of, relating to, or resembling a demonifuge.
   • 1998, Stephen Eskildsen, Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion‎^[1], fn. 36, page 200:

     This refers to a demonifugic talisman endorsed in the Shangqing tradition. See Robinet, Taoist Meditation, p. 32.

   • 2004, Richard Von Glahn, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture‎^[2], page 109:

     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.

2. Having, or believed to have, magical power to dispel or protect against demons.
   • 1984, Elizabeth Watts Hyland, Oracles of the True Ones: Scroll One, →OCLC, page 73:

     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