The first telephones were brought by Ras Makonnen from Italy in 1890, and connected between the Palace and the Imperial treasury ; the sound of disembodied voices frightened the local priests, who thought it was the work of demons.

The work tells of the building of The Temple and relates that construction was hampered by demons until the angel Michael gave the king a magical ring.

In ancient times pagan similarities were explained by the early Christian writers, such as Justin Martyr, as the work of demons and Satan, with the intention of leading Christians astray.

This tradition of Solomon's control over demons appears fully elaborated in the early pseudographical work called the Testament of Solomon with its elaborate and grotesque demonology.

Philosophy as pop-paganism is a work of demons ( De anima, i ); the Scriptures contain the wisdom of heaven.

Still in the 6th Century, bishop San Martín de Braga complained in his work De correctione rusticorum about the attachment of the Galician peasants to the pre-Christian cults: " Many demons, who were expelled from the heavens, settled in the sea, in the rivers, fountains and forests, and have come to be worshipped as gods by ignorant people.

Some Byzantine authors condemned them as sorcery and the work of demons, others admitted that such magic was beneficial ; none of them claimed that it didn ’ t work.

If hypothetical mirror matter exists, Zurab Silagadze proposes that demons can be envisaged, " which can act like perpetuum mobiles of the second kind: extract heat energy from only one reservoir, use it to do work and be isolated from the rest of ordinary world.

Such sleep paralysis was widely considered to be the work of demons, and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers.

The first section, called Ars Goetia, contains descriptions of the seventy-two demons that Solomon is said to have evoked and confined in a brass vessel sealed by magic symbols, and that he obliged to work for him.

Ars Goetia is the title of the first section of The Lesser Key of Solomon, containing descriptions of the seventy-two demons that King Solomon is said to have evoked and confined in a bronze vessel sealed by magic symbols, and that he obliged to work for him.

After completing a work on demons in 1533, Agrippa died in 1535, during a trip to France.

Within his text, Guazzo discusses witches ’ pacts with the devil, detailed descriptions of witches ’ powers and poisons and also prepared his classification of the demons based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.

The Testament of Solomon is an Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which Solomon mostly describes particular demons whom 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 date is very dubious, though is considered the oldest work surviving particularly concerned with individual demons.

Francesco Maria Guazzo prepared this classification of demons based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.

Ars Goetia is the title of the first section of The Lesser Key of Solomon, containing descriptions of the seventy-two demons that King Solomon is said to have evoked and confined in a bronze vessel sealed by magic symbols, and that he obliged to work for him.

Plutarch wrote that demons could not feel sexual desire because they did not need to procreate, his work inspiring later Remy's opinion.

Bill Ellis's work, Raising the Devil, has detected the presence of folkloric stories about the occult and demons circulating in evangelical and charismatic circles, which later become accepted as unquestioned facts.

Shea's work overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e. g., demons and aliens that act as endoparasites.

This required them to make a temporary agreement with their arch enemies, the demons or Asuras, to work together with a promise of sharing the wealth equally thereafter.

In the game's final scene, The Nameless One awakens near a battleground of the eternal Blood War between demons and devils ; he picks up a mace and walks toward the conflict.

In a November 4, 1999, Time magazine article, Jonathan Gregg opined that accusations of liberal media bias were not justified because the two cases varied with the Dirkhising murder offering " no lessons ," whereas the Shepard murder " touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons.

The known planes of existence include one for demons, one for each element, and one for very powerful but not quite godly creatures that are nevertheless inclined toward kindness to humans, and that while there may be other planes, no one has discovered any, and similar to certain religious beliefs, there are only four known Elemental Planes.

A result of 111 counts as a critical success for angels, while 666 is a critical failures ; the results are the opposite for demons.

Male and female witches were said to have intercourse with demons of the opposite sex.

To Thamiel, “ there are two demons that are attributed to stress the view that the demonic opposite of Kether is duality instead of unity and are Satan and Moloch or Malech ”.

If that's the case, then they cannot be seen as gods per se, or even as demons, since their existence is not dependent on human belief ; nor can they be placed on the same moral spectrum as gods or demons, since, as they are completely lacking in vitality, they are neither good nor evil, but the opposite of both.

The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.

Theologically, he represents the shift from the classical to the medieval outlook ; his popular writings are full of dramatic miracles, potent relics, demons, angels, ghosts, and the approaching end of the world.

In any case, the Sumerian texts relate how Dumuzid fled to his sister Geshtinana who attempted to hide him but who could not in the end stand up to the demons.

The beta ended with a bang, as players were treated to an " end of the world " scenario with Shadowlords, demons, and other evil creatures slaughtering every character in sight.

During the journey, they also encounter the two angels, and a host of demons who ( in rebellion against Hell ) are trying to help the angels cause the end of the world.

Towards the end of the season, Angel proposes an attack against the Circle of the Black Thorn, a powerful group of demons under the employ of the Wolfram & Hart's Senior Partners.

Years later, Kamsa learned about the child's escape and kept sending various demons to put an end to him.

In the end, Father Lamont finally defeats the demons.

Near the end of the Edo period when foreigners became widely known and seen, even sex acts with foreign males were drawn and sold, not to mention acts with animals, demons ( both male ( incubus ) and female ( succubus ), and deities.

Towards the end of season eight, Paige displays the advanced skill of being able to orb and throw adult sized demons and people across distances in a similar fashion to Prue's telekinetic lift and throw method.

At the back of the portico, near the east end, is a gigantic statue of a four-armed doorkeeper with two attendant demons.

To this end it came to be believed that imps were the familiar spirit servants of witches and warlocks, where the little demons served as spies and informants.

The horror of armageddon consisted of end of civilization, while the horror of demonic dealt with demons controlling people's souls and further used the supernatural element to a slightly bigger extreme.

The dragons used to rule over Eberron many centuries ago, but at the end of the Dragon-Fiend war, against the demons and devils of Khyber, they departed from Khorvaire to go to Argonnessen.

Years later, Kansa learnt about the child's escape and kept sending various demons to put an end to him.

At the end of the finale they finish the Book of Shadows by writing about their lives so all the generations after them would be prepared to fight demons, warlocks, and other forms of evil.

In the end Illyria and Gunn take off to find adventure, slay demons, and find a new direction in their lives.

:" And Uriel said to me: ' Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons ' as gods ', ( here shall they stand ,) till ' the day of ' the great judgment in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.

It is also a part of the Eberron campaign setting, in which it is called Khyber and is home to a host of evil beings driven deep into the caverns at the end of the age of demons.

It is also considered to, in the end, harm people more than help them: those who regularly contact demons are believed to go mad through overdosing on power, or being possessed ( since demons are thought to be short-tempered beings, and given the opportunity might overpower and enslave the one who summoned them ).

The psychosexual demons were no longer at bay but rampant and fully recognised, so that the audience, at the end of the performance, came away from the experience every bit as accused and absolved as the poet himself at the end of his poem.

Satan tells him that he is a major part of the end times prophecy, and will lead demons and mankind to war against God and his army.