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Name Image Origins Notes Ankh: Ancient Egyptian religion: Ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life; now also associated with Kemetism and neo-paganism, as well as the Goth subculture. Yogi practitioners often claim they stretch an ankh symbol into their wrist. Arrow : Ancient divination: Arrows used to gain knowledge through divination. Bagua
In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings. In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages, sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name.
Female evil spirits or malicious monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology. These monstrous women are often portrayed as predatory creatures, who are usually seen seducing male humans or snatching young children in order to kill, eat, or otherwise harm them.
Despite the fact that men sometimes accuse women of faking the possessions in order to get luxury items, attention, and sympathy, they do generally regard spirit possession as a genuine condition and view victims of it as being ill through no fault of their own. Other men suspect women of actively colluding with spirits in order to be possessed ...
The Infernal Names is a compiled list of adversarial or antihero figures from mythology intended for use in Satanic ritual. The following names are as listed in The Satanic Bible (1969), written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey . [ 1 ]
A.A. Barb connected Abyzou and similar female demons to the story of the primeval sea, Abzu, in ancient Mesopotamian religion.Barb argued that although the name "Abyzou" appears to be a corrupted form of the Greek ἄβυσσος ábyssos ' abyss ', [3] the Greek itself was borrowed from Akkadian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu.
Similarly, angels in Christianity have also masculine genders, names and functions. John Milton, in Paradise Lost, specifies that although demons may seem masculine or feminine, spirits "Can either Sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is thir Essence pure". Nonetheless, these feminine shapes may be just temporal disguises to deceive ...
Articles relating to demonic possession, the alleged spirit possession by malevolent preternatural beings, commonly referred to as demons or devils. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.