| Title: | Energumen |
| Original Title: | Energumène |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 651 |
| Author: | Edme-François Mallet (biography) |
| Translator: | Erik Liddell [Eastern Kentucky University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Energumen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Erik Liddell. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2005. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.547>. Trans. of "Energumène," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Energumen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Erik Liddell. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.547 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Energumène," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:651 (Paris, 1755). |
Energumen. Term in common use among the Theologians and the Scholastics, to signify a person possessed by a demon , or tormented by the evil spirit [the devil]. See Démon.
Papias [1] claims that energumens are those who counterfeit the actions of the devil, and pull off surprising stunts that people believe supernatural. He does not appear terribly persuaded of their existence, but the Church admits it, since it exorcises them. The Council of Orange [held in 529 C. E.] excludes them from the priesthood, or deprives them of this order if the possession is posterior to their ordination.
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1. Fl. 2nd c. C. E., reputed to have been Bishop of the Church at Hierapolis ( see "Papias" in The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001–04: http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Papias.html).