WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND THE BIBLE
After a dog assault poor narrator Lockwood reacts with a bible quotation on his landlord Heathcliff :
"...What the devil is the matter ? Heathcliff asked (...) What the devil indeed ! I mutttered. The herd of possessed swine could have had no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers !" (p.49)
Answer of Heathcliff : "The dogs do right to be vigilant".
See Mark 4, 5 : "Out, unclean spirit, come out of this man ! Jesus asked him, What is your name ? My name is Legion, he said. Now there happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hill-side, and the spirits begged him , Send us among the pigs and let us go into them. And the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. And the herd , of about two thousand, rushed over the edge into the lake and were drowned..." Then they begged Jusus to leave the district.