Supernatural horror has its roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and the principle of evil embodied in the Devil.

In 1946, he starred in a rare comic performance, Angel on My Shoulder, playing a gangster whose early death prompts the Devil ( played by Claude Rains ) to make mischief by putting his soul into the body of a judge, only to have his new identity turn the former criminal into a model citizen.

Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose only studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009.

Before his death, Speer compared his work on behalf of the Nazis to that of a man who made a deal with the Devil.

However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him.

Within thirty years of Shelton's death, Benjamin Botkin records stories of his having been born with a caul over his face ( signifying one with the power to see spirits and destined for trouble ), or of having sold his soul to the Devil ( in exchange for the hat, said to be magic, over which he killed Billy Lyons ).

These magical stories was far from slander ; in the 13th century, the witch trials were hundreds of years in the future, magic was not illegal and the ability to master magic was considered a great and admirable skill ; there was a clear separation between white and black magic, and not even black magic was yet connected to the Devil or punishable by death, as it would become later.

Although Molitor supported the death sentence for heretics and practitioners of witchcraft, from a moderate point of view for his time he considered that the Sabbaths were an illusion caused by the Devil and not a reality.

In " Printer's Devil ," Meredith portrayed the Devil himself, and in " The Obsolete Man " he portrayed a librarian, sentenced to death in a future, dystopic totalitarian society.

But in " Ghost in the Machines ", due to his suicide, Bender is turned to a ghost who can't interact with people and can possesses machines: he used this ability in order to " scare Fry to death " when he makes a deal with Robot Devil to get a new body.

* Black dog-The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death.

The 18 minute film was directed by Dr. Dre and Fab Five Freddy and chronicles the fictional death of Snoop Dogg and his resurrection after making a deal with the Devil.

* The video game Devil May Cry 3 features the character Lady killing her father Arkham in revenge for the death of her mother Kalina Ann.

Despite declaring the Inquisitor to be an atheist, Ivan also has the Inquisitor saying that the Catholic Church follows " the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction ," i. e. the Devil, Satan.

According to the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago, the Castle of the Devil is a huge silk cotton tree growing deep in the forest in which Bazil the demon of death was imprisoned by a carpenter.

Appice rejoined his Black Sabbath bandmates Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler, and Tony Iommi in 2006 as Heaven & Hell, touring and releasing one studio album, The Devil You Know, before Dio's death in 2010.

A triumphant Zead appears and confirms this, explaining that the Devil Forgemasters were supposed to fight to the death, with the blood-stained Hector becoming the vessel for the Count's reincarnation.

The literature Tolstoy composed during this period can be considered some of his most controversial and philosophical, among which falls The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other famous short stories such as The Kreutzer Sonata and The Devil From a biographical standpoint, therefore, it is possible to interpret The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a manifestation of Tolstoy ’ s embroilment with death and the meaning of his own life during his final years.

The satisfaction view argues that Christ made satisfaction to the Father for the sins of humanity by His sacrifice on the Cross, penal substitution theory argues that Jesus received the full and actual punishment due to men and women, while the Christus Victor view emphasises the liberation of humanity from the bondage of sin, death, and the Devil.

The elite of the Justice League decide to take the fight to Neron, and Blue Devil, who had been fooled by Neron's Faustian deal into causing the death of his agent Marla Bloom, takes them to Hell.

At that moment Blue Devil, seeking revenge for the death of Marla, finally reaches Neron ahead of the Justice League, and is killed ; while Neron reveals that it was Captain Marvel's soul he wanted all the time, just as The Trickster realizes the truth.

She reverses this by augmenting his powers instead, saving him from death ; while Blue Devil, who cannot die in hell, attacks Neron in a new demon body.

Unable to protect Jeanne d ' Arc from death, he gave his soul to The Devil, and vowed to fall in love with Jeanne's reincarnated form.

Alibech turns hermit, and is taught by Rustico, a monk, how the Devil is put in hell.

Their efforts ensured that the Devil and his minions did not carry off the grain from local failed crops down to hell.

Mephistopheles is already trapped in his own hell by serving the Devil.

Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven ; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from hell as well.

He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell.

It is said in Asmodeus ; Or, The Devil on Two Sticks that people who fall to Asmodeus ' ways will be sentenced to an eternity in the second level of hell.

Lobo was freed from his prison in a battle between Etrigan and Blue Devil, and went on a rampage through hell to seek revenge on Neron.

* The third act of George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman ( 1903 ) is a long philosophical discourse set in hell, between the shades of Don Juan, the Devil, Dona Ana, and Don Juan's nemesis, the statue of her father Don Gonzalo.

He was responsible for allowing demons to enter the human world and almost brought the world to the brink of hell, until the first Devil Hunter, Haruka Mano, defeated and sealed him.

There is a story in " Grandfather Tales ", a collection of tall tales from the region, called " Wicked John and the Devil " about a man who even the devil feared, who when he died was given a red hot coal by the Devil and told to go to the Great Dismal Swamps to make his own hell.

He was a winner of the Houghton Mifflin Award for his novel The Vintage ( 1949 ) ( published in Britain as On A Dark Night ), which Boucher and McComas praised as " a brilliantly terrifying exploration of the theme that each age creates its own peculiar species of hell and Devil.

Also in the crowd is Justice League member Blue Devil, who had worked out that the locations of the deaths of the five Rogues Gallery members formed a pentacle, and had come to hell to investigate.

She has somewhat of a split personality, however, and frequently changes into the Devil Dog and invites you to hell.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Murray's work involved her rationalizing many elements of the witch trials, particularly those she deemed impossible, such as the accounts of witches flying through the air or the Devil existing as a supernatural entity.

Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 ( 6 July and 26 September ) which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been " seduced by that liar, the Devil.

By personifying vices, virtues, the Devil and the Good Angel, stories of temptation were made accessible to those who were unable to read them themselves.

Even those who had been content to permit the monks ’ worship and do great reverence at their matins, masses and services two days previously were no less happy to pilfer, which is strange, that they could one day think it to be the house of God and the next the house of the Devil – or else they would not have been so ready to have spoiled it.

Lévi, working with correspondences different from those later used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, " equated the Devil Tarot key with Mercury ," giving " his figure Mercury's caduceus, rising like a phallus from his groin.

In the US, sales of Speak of the Devil were much better than those of Live Evil.

, commonly abbreviated as, is a Japanese role-playing video game metaseries which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani ( taking its name from the title of the first of those novels ) and has gone to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country.

In the 1999 movie Ride with the Devil, depicting a group of fictionalized Missouri bushwhackers similar to those of Quantrill's Raiders as well as the Lawrence raid, the character of Daniel Holt was representative of Quantrill's John Noland.

Eidetic memory from the moment of becoming a vampire seems to be natural, as Lestat tells David in Memnoch The Devil, however, memories of their humans lives, particularly those relating to sensation, fade over the years.

For the most part, Dippel kept to himself and his work ; he perhaps even actively perpetuated the rumors that he had sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for secret knowledge, as relying on his reputation as a dark sorcerer better enabled him to find audiences with those willing to pay for his knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life.

Those who benefit from interest shall be raised like those who have been driven to madness by the touch of the Devil ; this is because they say: " Trade is like interest " while God has permitted trade and forbidden interest … God deprives interest of all blessings but blesses charity .... O believers, fear God, and give up the interest that remains outstanding if you are believers.

One of those tracks, " Race With The Devil ", was originally intended to appear on the album in place of " Diamonds & Rust ".

In those days great strife was bred at the instigation of the Devil between the sons of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, Namely Owain Goch and Dafydd on the one side, and Llywelyn on the other.

When Kid Devil is injured during a mission, Rose defends him, and on multiple occasions threatens those she deemed a threat to him.

In 1964, Rocha released Deus e o Diablo na Terra do Sol (" Black God, White Devil "), which he wrote and directed to “ suggest that only violence will help those who are sorely oppressed ".

In Archetypal Patterns in Poetry, Bodkin tried, as Boswell ( 1936: 553 ) quotes, “ to bring psychological analysis and reflection to bear upon the imaginative experience communicated by great poetry, and to examine those forms or patterns in which the universal forces of our nature there find objectification .” Among the forms or archetypal patterns Bodkin presented, according to Boswell, may be included: the “ Oedipus complex ,” the “ rebirth archetype ,” the “ archetype of Heaven and Hell ,” and “ images of the Devil, the Hero, and God ” ( Boswell 1936: 553 ).

“ As I clarify, through reflective analysis of imaginative communication, my intellectual references to those social objects — states and forces entering our common life — which the poet may portray through heroic figures, or name God, Devil, Heaven, Hell, I am at the same time ordering my emotional attitudes toward those objects.

Torment refers to severe pain ; possession is seen either as possession by the Devil, or as a metaphor for mental illness ; epileptics refers to any suffering seizures ; and paralytics to those who are paralyzed.

In addition, Small was also a member of the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies and Anaheim Angels organizations, though he never pitched in the major leagues for those teams.

Membership is open to those who wish to support the Korea Republic national football team, but anyone who wears red and supports the national team during games is considered a Red Devil.