* " Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter " ( 1839 ), a disturbing story of a man returning from the grave to claim his bride in the old folkloric motif of the demon lover.

He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a demon who had taken the Earth ( Prithvi ) and carried it to the bottom of what is described as the cosmic ocean in the story.

According to a narrative in the Devi Mahatmya story of the Markandeya Purana text, Durga was created as a warrior goddess to fight an asura ( an inhuman force / demon ) named Mahishasura.

Many of the shrines relate the story of Lord Murugan's victory over the demon Soorapadam.

The example of kori agung or paduraksa style gate is the elegant Bajang Ratu gate richly decorated with Kala demon, cyclops and also the bas-relief telling the story of Sri Tanjung.

This was followed by a lengthy nine-issue story arc, " The Fear Machine ", revolving around a masonic plot to collect people's fears, in order to resurrect a demon known as Juntakillokian, and his efforts to prevent this with the help of environmentalists, including Mercury, a young psychic girl, and Marj, her mother, with whom he becomes romantically involved.

This more irreverent story is about the consequences of Constantine resurrecting the dead son of an East London gangster, using the spirit of a demon.

He is mentioned in Jorge Luis Borges ' Labyrinths in the story " The Immortal ", " Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon ( Rākshasa ) king of Lanka, Rāvana.

The demon is also mentioned in some Talmudic legends, for instance, in the story of the construction of the Temple of Solomon.

The story " Royal Blood " told in John Constantine Hellblazer ( 1992, DC Comics ) mentions Jack the Ripper being Sir William Gull possessed by a demon called Calibraxis.

The first story of this type is narrated in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, in which the demon Asmodeus either fell in love with Sarah or felt sexual desire for her ( or both ).

A story referring to demonic jealousy was told by Erasmus ( 16th century ), who blamed a demon for the fire that destroyed a village in Germany in 1533, saying that a demon loved deeply a young woman, but discovered that she had also sexual relationships with a man.

Prominent was the story in which Gall delivered Fridiburga from the demon by which she was possessed.

Such portrayal includes Makai Tensho, a story about the fictional battles of Yagyu Jubei, in which Amakusa Shiro rejects the Christian God at the time of his death and becomes a demon, returning to Earth to destroy the Tokugawa shogunate who put him to death with some of Japan's greatest heroes and villains of the age who were also resurrected as demons.

This quotation begins each episode of Samurai Jack, which tells the story of a young prince ( Jack ) from Feudal Japan whose father's empire was destroyed by the demon Aku.

The demon island () of the story is sometimes associated with Megijima Island, an island in the Seto Inland Sea near Takamatsu, due to the vast manmade caves found on that island.

Anchorites practiced continuous meditation on the scriptures as a means of climbing the ladder of perfection — a common religious image in the Mediterranean world and one found in Christianity through the story of Jacob's ladder — and sought to fend off the demon of acedia (" un-caring "), a boredom or apathy that prevents us from continuing on in our spiritual training.

The story goes that the beautiful state of Kerala was the capital of the Asura ( demon ) king, Bali.

In the Batman story " Tulpa ", an American national of Tibetan heritage embodies his own hatred and rage in the form of a terrible demon, a tulpa he names and gives the shape of Mahakala, to defend him from the depredations of a gang of criminals who extort him.

In the original short story: The exclamation that is tacked onto a string of math gibberish to summon the demon is " no, goddammit ", possibly censored for television.

Melaka Fray is hit with a steel girder thrown at her from a demon and recovers within minutes ; she is also shown to fall from a height of over five stories to land face-first on a cement sidewalk and be only dazed before fully recovering in moments, and at a later time, to fall four stories down, crash through the cement roof of an adjacent building and fall down the height of one more story, and recover instantly.

Before they leave they are warned by their Native American scout, George, of the Wendigo myth ; a story that a man consuming the flesh of his enemies takes their strength but becomes a demon cursed by a hunger for human flesh.

Set in the United States during the 1920s, Chrono Crusade follows the story of Rosette Christopher, and her demon partner Chrono.

* Catch, the demon from Moore's debut novel Practical Demonkeeping, makes an appearance in Lamb as the servant of Balthasar, one of the Wise Men.

Travis was born in 1900, yet he has not aged since 1919, because he accidentally called up a demon from hell named Catch as his servant, presumably forever.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

After three nights, the soul of the wicked is taken by the demon Vizaresa ( Vīzarəša ), to Chinvat bridge, and is made to go to darkness ( hell ).

This is likely due to three scenes in the Chronicles: first, when Eric paralyzes Corwin with an attack across the Trump and refuses to desist because one or the other would be dominated ; second, when Corwin faces the demon Strygalldwir, it is able to wrestle mentally with him when their gazes meet ; and third, when Fiona is able to keep Brand immobile in the final battle at the Courts of Chaos.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

In the 3rd century Acts of Thomas, Abaddon is the name of a demon, or the Devil himself.

The 13th century Terrace of the Leper King is known for its dynamic relief sculptures of demon kings, dancers, and nāgas.

Even if there were a deceiving god ( or an evil demon ), one's belief in their own existence would be secure, for there is no way one could be deceived unless one existed in order to be deceived.

A forerunner of the modern ideas of cyberspace is the Cartesian notion that people might be deceived by an evil demon that feeds them a false reality.

I enabled him to free the angel and demon that he is on the inside.

Scotty forces Cheryl into the cellar and locks it, but his girlfriend Shelly is also possessed by a demon, which spies on her from outside her bedroom as she is changing before hurling itself at her.

Ash becomes briefly possessed by the demon, but when day breaks the spirit is gone, and Ash is back to normal.

The four of them find an embattled Ash, who is, seemingly, slowly being driven insane due to his encounter with the demon, such as hallucinating that the room comes to life and begins laughing hysterically at him.

Bobby Joe tries to escape, but is attacked by the demon trees and dragged to her death.

Lilith is banished from Adam and God's presence when she is discovered to be a " demon " and Eve becomes Adam's wife.

This character is an evil wizard or sorcerer, or sometimes a kind of god or demon.

An incubus is a male demon that has sexual intercourse with sleeping women.

Due to a series of events where Earth's orbital path moves, Bobby is able to return to the United States to aid in the battle against the demon Mephisto.

* In the Supernatural episode " Phantom Traveler ", the demon causing plane crashes is likened to a modern disaster kami that has evolved with the times.