Gadarene swine

Noun

 * 1)  A herd of swine that become possessed by demons after the latter are exorcised from men, in a parable told in each of the Synoptic Gospels, although not the.
 * 2) * 2000 [1908, Weiser Books], R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development,, page 208,
 * The most remarkable parallel to this spell is contained in the New Testament story of the Gadarene swine.