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.

The fear of the demon is what really keeps the vampires from entering.

Sometime later, Gemma is inexplicably able to reincarnate himself, and over the next five years, becomes leader of a demon ninja group known as the Devils of Kimon, who in turn work for the mysterious Shogun of the Dark ( really the lord of the House of Toyotomi ), which holds a grudge against the current government, the Tokugawa shogunate, and wants to overthrow it.

Ezra was one of the first Children and really struggled to understand her role as a gothic demon hunter.

The merging caused Madelyne to come to life, though the Phoenix Force remained buried within her until several years later, when the evil demon S ' ym activated Madelyne's latent telepathic and telekinetic powers after tricking Madelyne into entering into a contract to aid S ' ym in exchange for revenge on her estranged husband Cyclops, who had abandoned her and their son for Jean when he discovered she was really alive.

In the anime, the historical warlord Oda Nobunaga is really an evil demon killing everyone who stand in his way.

She finds that he is really a man whom she transformed into a demon many years ago, who now seeks revenge against her.

* The demon Moloch has an advanced robotic body built for him to inhabit " I, Robot ... You, Jane.

* Model # 8 ( Robot of Destruction ): The eighth model of giant robot was known as the Robot of Destruction, it was pink in color, had a face on its torso and resembled a demon with horns.

Some Christian writers later rejected the idea that humans could bring back the spirits of the dead and interpreted such shades as disguised demons instead, thus conflating necromancy with demon summoning.

God sends the archangel Raphael, disguised as a human, to heal Tobit and to free Sarah from the demon.

* Sebastian Michaelis, a demon disguised as an extremely handsome man bound by contract to his young British master, Ciel Phantomhive, in the Black Butler Manga and Anime series.

Once Scheherazade's three sisters and her father are rescued, the hero confronts Sabaron who realizes releasing the demon Goragora was a mistake and it is revealed that Scheherazade was never kidnapped, she had been traveling with Isfa the whole time disguised as Isfa's guide Coronya.

Skurai's dark past hides a terrible tragedy: he was once an honorable knight and the selling of his soul to Talatsu was to allow him the power to save his lover, the princess Titania, who was killed however by another demon that was disguised as a prince.

During their stay, a female demon called Surpanaka saw Laksamana and fell in love with him and disguised herself as a beautiful woman.

If the heart was lighter than the feather, they could pass on, but if it were heavier they would be devoured by the demon Ammit.

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 ).

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.

A female customer becomes possessed by a demon and starts wreaking havoc on the store, and Ash slays the creature.

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.

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.

Scotty's body reanimates, now possessed by a demon, and tries to kill Ash, but he cripples him by gouging out his eyes.

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

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

The Historia Brittonum details that Geta was said to be the son of a god, yet " not of the omnipotent God and our Lord Jesus Christ ," but rather " the offspring of one of their idols, and whom, blinded by some demon, they worshipped according to the custom of the heathen.

Some societies thought it was a demon swallowing the moon, and that they could chase it away by throwing stones and curses at it.

In Robert's account, as in Geoffrey's Historia, Merlin is begotten by a demon on a virgin as an intended Antichrist.

These include: The Inhumans, another genetically unstable race ( like the Deviants, but in their case its due to their use of a substance called the ' Terrigen Mists ') that was created by a Kree experiment long ago ; The Subterraneans, a race of humanoids adapted to living below the surface, created by the Deviants ( some subterraneans were transformed into ' Lava Men ' by a demon ); and Homo mermanus, a humanoid race of water-breathers that lives in Earth's oceans.

St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as " feasting on immorality "; the anti-papal historian Ferdinand Gregorovius wrote that in Benedict, " a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest ... occupied the chair of Peter and profaned the sacred mysteries of religion by his insolent courses.

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 ).

The evil demon problem originally motivated skepticism, but can be resuited to object to reliabilist accounts as follows: If our experiences are controlled by an evil demon, it may be the case that we believe ourselves to be doing things that we are not doing.

It is said that Kubera was overthrown by his demon stepbrother Ravana, the powerful Emperor who built a mythical flying machine named Dandu Monara.

The Victorian artist and poet Thomas Woolner wrote Silenus, a long narrative poem about the myth, in which Syrinx becomes the lover of Silenus, but drowns when she attempts to escape rape by Pan, as a result of the crime Pan is transmuted into a demon figure and Silenus becomes a drunkard.

", 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.

A common example is a corpse re-animated by supernatural forces by the application of the deceased's own life force or that of another being ( such as a demon ).

* In the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Nergal is a demon and recurring villain, but later marries Billy's aunt Sis and has a child named Nergal Jr.

In so doing, he discovered that he could doubt whether he had a body ( it could be that he was dreaming of it or that it was an illusion created by an evil demon ), but he could not doubt whether he had a mind.

Medieval glosses to the Bible suggested that what the witch actually summoned was not the ghost of Samuel, but a demon taking his shape or an illusion crafted by the witch.

The brain in a vat is a contemporary version of the argument given in Hindu Maya illusion, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's " Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly ", and the evil demon in René Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

" The evil demon presents a complete illusion of an external world, including other minds, to Descartes ' senses, where in fact there is no such external world in existence.

The sixth season episode " Normal Again " posits Buffy's world of Sunnydale as a manifestation of psychopathology: after being stabbed by a demon, Buffy becomes convinced that the world in which she is a hero is an illusion.

Some skeptical arguments appeal to the fact that no possible evidence could be incompatible with ' skeptical hypotheses ' like the maintenance of a complex illusion by Descartes ' evil demon or ( in a modern version ) the machines who run the Matrix.

She was rescued by the Viper, having discovered ( erroneously, as Viper revealed to Spider-Woman that it was actually an illusion put into the Viper's mind ) that Spider-Woman was her daughter and instead betrayed the demon, closing the door to his realm, freeing Jessica, and casting Chthon back into the void ( his dimension ).