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.

Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

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.

A demon emerges from the woods and descends upon Ash, who turns to see it and lets out a bloodcurdling scream.

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.

Together, the party manages to assassinate Emperor Hawthorne in his throne room, banish the demon king Grah-hoth who was becoming a significant threat to the citizens of Exile, and secure an escape route to the surface.

In this sequence, the demon snakes are computer-generated and composited onto Ashitaka, who is hand-drawn.

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 ).

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

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.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

* Descarte's Evil demon is a being " as clever and deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading me.

The sculpture is usually made in bronze, with Shiva dancing in an aureole of flames, lifting his left leg ( or in rare cases, the right leg ) and balancing over a demon or dwarf ( Apasmara ) who symbolizes ignorance.

* Violator, a demon from hell who takes the appearance of a balding, middle-aged clown, and an enemy of Spawn in the comic franchise by Todd McFarlane.

The word derives from the Old English " mare ", a mythological demon who torments human beings with frightening dreams.

Long hated by the white South as a demon who perpetrated atrocities on Georgia civilians, Sherman was a popular hero in the North and well regarded by his soldiers.

Originally illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by Phil Foglio, the highly pun-driven books follow a " demon " magician who has lost his powers and his inexperienced human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds in pursuit of finding their place in life, though under the guise of seeking wealth and glory.

A battle ensues against her Grolim priests, as well as the demon Mordja, who now resides inside the body of their world's last living dragon.

John of Salisbury is one of the first examples related by Richard Kieckhefer, but as a Parisian ecclesiastical court record of 1323 shows, a " group who were plotting to invoke the demon Berich from inside a circle made from strips of cat skin ," were obviously participating in the church ’ s definition of " necromancy ".

Shiva is depicted dancing on the dwarfish body of the demon Apasmara purusa, " forgetfulness, loss of memory " called in Tamil Muyalaka ( PRIT ) -- who represents ignorance, the destruction of which brings enlightenment, true wisdom, and release from the bondage of existences.

Arthas and Kel ' Thuzad open a dimensional portal and summon the demon Archimonde and the Burning Legion, who begins his purging of Lordaeron with the destruction of Dalaran.

They battled against the demon for one year, and after the death of two kings, the Dwarves who had not been killed fled from the Misty Mountains.

Compared to NetHack, Gehennom comprises fewer levels, though it contains a special level for each demon lord and prince, including those who only appear when summoned in NetHack.

She strikes up a brief friendship with Fred Burkle, though her relationship with Illyria, the demon who later inhabits Fred's body, is quite frosty.

* Naked City: When Angel asserts that he'll be able to recognize the eviscerating Talamour demon in whatever body it inhabits, Doyle quips, " That only leaves about five million suspects in The Naked City.

In the fifteenth century, however, Giovanni Fontana, a Venetian engineer, had already created a lantern that projected an image of a demon.

We therefore, beloved son, beseech Your Grace by Christ the son of God and by His coming and by His kingdom, that if it is true that you are continuing in this vice you will amend your life by penitence, purify yourself, and bear in mind how vile a thing it is through lust to change the image of God created in you into the image and likeness of a vicious demon.

Fearing that even the image of Apep could give power to the demon, any rendering would always include another deity to subdue the monster, and / or knives already stabbed into him.

* Cult image, a religion-neutral term for a man-made object that is venerated for the deity, spirit or demon that it embodies or represents

It is said to have contained an image of the angel, which contained inside a small demon tied to a post.

As people venerated the image of the archangel, they also acknowledged the demon, in case the angel decided not to hear their pleas.

The demon began to be blamed for misfortunes that would befall the area, as and when they occurred, the demon image would be found untied.

Eventually, the image of the archangel with the demon inside was taken away and it eventually disappeared.

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.

He later redesigned Energer Z, renaming it Mazinger Z to evoke the image of a demon god ( Ma, 魔, meaning demon and Jin, 神, meaning god ).

The image of Mahalakshmi is shown riding a tiger and a demon ( Mahishasur ) in tandem.

Another quality common to his work is narrative playfulness: the almost hidden eye and partial face of Bahram as he peers out the blinds to watch the frolicing girls in the pool below, the upright goat that looks like a demon along the edge of the horizon in a story about an old woman confronting the sins of Sanjar, the amazing cosmopolitan variety of humans working on the wall in the sample image.

The result was published as The Art of Rosaleen Norton in 1952, and contained such paintings as Black Magic, Rites of Baron Samedi and an image depicting the horned demon Fohat, with a snake for his phallus, whilst Greenlees ' poems featured in the work included The Angel of Twizzari and Esoteric Study.

Hardin's printed bookplate features an image of the demon Beelzebub, which led Mark McMenamin to consider the ultimate source of Hardin's worldview.

The image of Watanabe no Tsuna taking his sword to beat demon ’ s attack off became iconographical.

Darum nannte er den Berg Hülfensberg ( Inde salvatus salvatoris montem vocavit )" (" there, Saint Boniface destroyed an image of a god through which a demon called Stauff spoke, and at the mountain he defeated an army of unbelievers, which is why he named the mountain Hülfensberg ").

This stone was then used to carve the image of Durga Mahishasuramardini who had slain the demon king Mahishasura, and installed it in the fort temple as Sila Devi.

The demon image was retained in the logo but dropped from the name.