Noonday Demon

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The term Noonday Demon (also known to be referred to as Noonday Devil, Demon of Noontide, Midday Demon or Meridian Demon) is used as a synonym and a personification of acedia, which stems from the Greek word ἀκηδία, meaning 'to lack care'. It indicates a demonic figure thought to be active at the noon hour which inclines its victims (most often monastics) to restlessness, excitability, and inattention to duty. A similar phrase appears in the Hebrew Bible: Psalm 91:6 reads, "מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם": 'from destruction that despoils at midday'. This phrase also appears in the Alexandrian Greek in the Septuagint: "ἀπὸ πράγματος ἐν σκότει διαπορευομένου, ἀπὸ συμπτώματος καὶ δαιμονίου μεσημβρινοῦ." ('[you need not fear] the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.'). In the Vulgate, Jerome's translation of the Septuagint into Latin, is a personification in the daemonium meridianum ("Non timebis ... ab incursu et daemonio meridiano"). This demonic...

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