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This is a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore. It is not a list of names of demons, although some are listed by more than one name.
The most detailed description of the alukah appears in the Sefer Hasidim, where the creature is a living human being but can shapeshift into a wolf. [3] It can fly (by releasing its long hair) and would eventually die if prevented from feeding on blood for a long enough time.
Horse — The horse is never mentioned in Scripture in connection with the patriarchs; the first time the Bible speaks of it, it is in reference to the Egyptian army pursuing the Hebrews, During the epoch of the conquest and of Judges, we hear of horses only with the Chanaanean troops, and later on with the Philistines, The hilly country ...
The listed creatures are believed to be both wild animals and demons. [2] [4] Many of the same creatures are also listed in the Bible's description of the destruction of Babylon, and this passage may have been modelled off of it. [3] The qippoz is listed among these creatures. [1]
Shedim were not considered as evil demigods, but the gods of foreigners; further, they were envisaged as evil only in the sense that they were not God. [ 6 ] They appear only twice (and in both instances in the plural) in the Tanakh, at Psalm 106 :37 and Deuteronomy 32:17.
Se’īrīm (Hebrew: שעירים, singular sa'ir) are demons. Sa’ir was the ordinary Hebrew word for "he-goat", and it is not always clear what the word's original meaning might have been.
Balaam and the Angel (1836) by Gustav Jäger.The angel in this incident is referred to as a "satan". [7]The Hebrew term śāṭān (Hebrew: שָׂטָן) is a generic noun meaning "accuser" or "adversary", [8] [9] and is derived from a verb meaning primarily "to obstruct, oppose". [10]
But to take view of other strange creatures, make roome, I pray, for another Rabbi with his Bird; and a great deale of roome you will say is requisite: Rabbi Kimchi on the 50. Psalme auerreth out of Rabbi Iehudah , that Ziz is a bird so great, that with spreading abroad his wings, he hideth the Sunne, and darkeneth all the world.