Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NUMEN
numen
(noun) a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
numen (plural numina)
A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant.
Source: Wiktionary
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