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Bronze statue of the Assyro-Babylonian demon king Pazuzu, c. 800–700 BCE, Louvre. A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. [1] Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in folklore, mythology, religion, and literature; these beliefs are reflected in media including comics, fiction, film, television, and video games.
Demonology is the study of demons within religious belief and myth. Depending on context, it can refer to studies within theology, religious doctrine, or occultism. In many faiths, it concerns the study of a hierarchy of demons. Demons may be nonhuman separable souls, or discarnate spirits which have
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
The following are lists of demons: List of theological demons , a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore List of spirits appearing in grimoires , listing spirits whose titles show up in these grimoires for evocation ritual purposes
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 list of demons in fiction includes those from literary fiction with theological aspirations, such as Dante's Inferno.
A red demon enslaved in the garden, presumably Asmodeus, is forced to work. In Islamic culture, Asmodeus is known as a demon (Arabic: شَيَاطِين, romanized: šayṭān Persian: دیو, romanized: dīv) called Sakhr (rock), probably a reference to his fate being imprisoned inside a box of rock, chained with iron and thrown into the sea.
Christian evangelist Jack T. Chick claimed that Baphomet is a demon worshipped by Freemasons, [76] a claim that apparently originated with the Taxil hoax. Lévi's Baphomet was depicted on the cover of Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés , Léo Taxil 's lurid paperback "exposé" of Freemasonry, which, in 1897, he revealed as a hoax ...
Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord [46]: a demon in Journey to the West, whose true form is a centipede and whose eyes radiant brilliant light. He assumes the form of a Taoist priest and is attended to by seven spider demons. Sun Wukong, sometimes called a "stone monkey demon", who grows powerful enough to challenge the entire Taoist pantheon