In his Commentary on Daniel, he noted, “ Let us not follow the opinion of some commentators and suppose him to be either the Devil or some demon, but rather, one of the human race, in whom Satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form .” In interpreting 2 Thessalonians's claim that the Antichrist will sit in God's temple, Jerome preferred the view that the " temple " should be interpreted as the Church, not as the Temple in Jerusalem.

Aid comes in the form of the demon Neron ; Luthor is offered full health in exchange for services and his soul.

In folklore traced back to medieval legend, a succubus ( plural succubi ) is a female demon or supernatural being appearing in dreams, who takes the form of a human woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual intercourse.

Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously dead, or some form of demon, or a species completely independent of humans or angels.

This powerful enchanted black blade is a member of a demon race that takes on the form of a sword, and as such is a force of Chaos.

Mahisha stands for Mahishasura, a mythological demon that could assume the form of both human and buffalo.

Māyā, in Her form as Durga, was called upon when the gods and goddesses were helpless against the attacks of the demon Mahisasura.

Coral's younger sister Nayda is revealed to be possessed by the mysterious body-possessing " t ' yiga " demon which had previously been Vinta Bayle ( and, for a short while, several other people on Earth, in " Trumps of Doom "): but since the real Nayda actually died of a long-standing heart condition just as the t ' yiga possessed her ( possession is normally harmless ), it is now trapped in her form permanently.

Pointing to variants such as Irish badhbh ‘ hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold ,’ Early Irish badb, ‘ crow, demon ,’ Badba, Welsh bod, ‘ kite ,’ the Gaulish name Bodv -, in Bodvo-gnatus and the Welsh name Bodnod, Macbain ( 1982 ) suggests * bodwā-as the Proto-Celtic ancestral form.

The demon Mahishasur continued his terrorizing, taking the form of a lion, and then the form of a man, but both of them were gracefully slain by Durga.

She witnesses a sorcerer's Ascension into pure demon form.

A depiction of Azazel in his familiar form of a goat-like demon, from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal ( Paris, 1825 ).

He spends his dying moments with Illyria at his side, finally agreeing to let the demon take the form of Fred, thus allowing Wesley, in some way, to say goodbye to the woman he loved.

Glory's strength was greater than that of any Slayer, vampire or demon on Earth, although her powers were greatly diminished compared to those she had in her true form.

Belphegor ( Lord of the Opening ) was pictured in two different fashions: as a beautiful young woman or as a monstrous, bearded demon with horns and sharply pointed nails ; the former form, according to most sources, was his earthly disguise when invoked by mortals.

After spending the night reminiscing and drinking with Ethan, Giles wakes the next morning in the form of a Fyarl demon.

The character of Betelgeuse — envisioned by McDowell as a winged demon who takes on the form of a short Middle Eastern man — is also intent on killing the Deetzes rather than scaring them, and wants to rape Lydia instead of marry her.

Sophie strikes a bargain with Howl's resident fire demon, Calcifer: if Sophie can break the contract between Howl and Calcifer, then Calcifer will return Sophie to her original form.

This is the demon drum or the, drum used in low country dance in which the dancers wear masks and perform devil dancing, which has become a highly developed form of art.

Strzyga, rarely in male form strzyg or strzygoń, is a demon from Slavic beliefs.

An incubus ( nominal form constructed from the Latin verb, incubo, incubare, or " to lie upon ") is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with them.

800 years later, Thomas Aquinas lend himself to the ongoing discussion, stating, " Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men, taken for the purpose ; as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man ; just so they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes.

", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.

After they kill his wife, Jim uses a ritual to summon a demon ( taking the form of his slain brother ) to kill the greasers.

The ending implies that the forces he summoned to dispatch the greasers may also be just as sinister, and as difficult to get rid of as the greasers themselves were ( the demon posing as his brother states " I'll be back, Jim ").

Originally known as Gentleman Jim Craddock, he made a pact with a demon named Astaroth to become immortal in return for stealing ten souls that Astaroth needed to enter the mortal realm ( probably based on Jack the Ripper's murders ).

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 >

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.

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.

He was also reputed to have had a pact with a female demon called Meridiana, who had appeared after he had been rejected by his earthly love, and with whose help he managed to ascend to the papal throne ( another legend tells that he won the papacy playing dice with the Devil ).

* One of three demon gods in the game Shadow Hearts Covenant ; also the second most powerful transformation in both Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts Covenant

Because Stowe saw motherhood as the " ethical and structural model for all of American life " and also believed that only women had the moral authority to save the United States from the demon of slavery, another major theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is the moral power and sanctity of women.

He is at once horrified by his own actions and intentions, while also somewhat remiss that he did not go through with the rape, since he is still essentially a demon and has had no problem committing such acts in the past.

Spike is also seen speaking / understanding Latin, Luganda ( a language of Uganda, where he meets the demon shaman ), and the language of Fyarl Demons, two of whom he once employed as underlings during his pre-Sunnydale days.

The name is also used, especially by the tragic writers, to designate any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men.

In a conversation with his mother Dara-mistress of Corwin once, and a descendant of Benedict, also from the royal house of Chaos-he finds that she was the one who sent the t ' yiga demon which is now Coral's sister Nayda ( and appears to be developing something of an affection for Luke.

Being a deity of the desert, god of fire, which is one of negative aspects of the sun, god of the underworld, and also being a god of one of the religions which rivaled Christianity and Judaism, Nergal was sometimes called a demon and even identified with Satan.

* Kui ( Chinese mythology ) 夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance

In fact, because temperature and pressure are related, if A and B both contain the same numbers of molecule per unit volume, the one with the higher temperature will also have higher pressure ; the demon must actually let more slow molecules pass from B to A than fast ones pass from A to B in order to make B hotter at the same pressure.

Additionally, the deletion became more energy-efficient the slower it was, thus also requiring the demon to asymptotically approach zero processing speed.

Ammit (; " devourer " or " soul-eater "; also spelled Ammut or Ahemait ) was a female demon in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile — the three largest " man-eating " animals known to ancient Egyptians.

Wadjet is not to be confused with the Egyptian demon Apep, who is also represented as a snake in Egyptian mythology.

A Mamallapuram relief shows the goddess with 8 arms riding her lion subduing a buffalo-faced demon ( as contrasted with a buffalo demon ); a variation also seen at Ellora.

While often thought of mainly as the infamous 10-headed demon, Ravana was also a notable scholar of the Vedas.

Vishrava, Kubera's father, also married the Rakshasa ( demon ) princess Kaikesi, who mothered four Rakshasa children: Ravana, the chief antagonist of the Ramayana, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana and Soorpanaka.

* Kui: one-legged mountain demon or dragon who invented music and dance ; also Shun's musical master

* The second law of thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon and the arrow of time ( also Loschmidt's paradox ).