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ID: 300380109
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300380109

 

Record Type: concept
demon locusts (legendary beings, Animalia (kingdom), ... Living Organisms (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Fantastical creatures having the body of a locust insect and often the face of a devil, tasked with tormenting people rather than crops; particularly as described in the Bible, Revelations. Alternatively, they may be described as having the body of a scorpion or of a horse. Ultimately derived from folkloric descriptions of real plagues of locusts or stinging insects.
 
Terms:
demon locusts (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
demon locust (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
locusts, demon (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
demonische sprinkhanen (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
demonische sprinkhaan (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  H.HL

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Agents Facet
Agents Facet
Hierarchy of Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
.... Living Organisms (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of living organisms (entities)
........ living organisms (entities) (G)
Hierarchy of Eukaryota (domain)
............ Eukaryota (domain) (G)
Hierarchy of Animalia (kingdom)
................ Animalia (kingdom) (G)
Hierarchy of legendary beings
.................... legendary beings (G)
Hierarchy of demon locusts
........................ demon locusts (G,U)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Fictieve wezens met het lichaam van een sprinkhaan en doorgaans het gezicht van een duivel, die de taak hadden om mensen te kwellen in plaats van gewassen, zoals gewone sprinkhanen doen; hiermee wordt met name verwezen naar de wezens die beschreven worden in de Openbaring van Johannes, in de Bijbel. In andere bronnen hebben ze ook wel het lichaam van een schorpioen of een paard. Uiteindelijk komen deze mythen voort uit folkloristische beschrijvingen van daadwerkelijke plagen van sprinkhanen of andere insecten. 

Sources and Contributors:
demonische sprinkhaan............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
......................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
......................................  UvA Talen
demonische sprinkhanen............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
.........................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.........................................  UvA Talen
demon locust............  [VP]
.......................  J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
demon locusts............  [JPGM Preferred, VP Preferred]
..........................  Catholic Encyclopedia [online] (2003-)
..........................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Locusts," accessed 23 February 2013
..........................  J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
locusts, demon............  [VP]
.............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
 
Subject: .....  [JPGM, VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... UvA Talen

 

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