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A number of authors throughout Christian history have written about demons for a variety of purposes.

Theologians like Thomas Aquinas wrote concerning the behaviors Christians should be aware of, while witchhunters like Heinrich Kramer wrote about how to find and what to do with people they believed were involved with demons.

Some texts are written with instructions on how to summon demons in the name of God and often were claimed to have been written by individuals respected within the Church, such as the Lesser Key of Solomon or The Grimoire of Pope Honorius ( although these the earliest manuscripts were from well after these individuals had died ).

These latter texts were usually more detailed, giving names, ranks, and descriptions of demons individually and categorically.

Most Christians commonly reject these texts as either diabolical or fictitious.