Romulus is portrayed as a demonic knight and his brother is portrayed as a wisecracking, foul mouthed swordsman.

The player controls the knight Arthur, who must advance through a series of eerie levels and defeat a number of undead and demonic creatures in his quest to restore the souls stolen by Lucifer ( Loki in the English-language Mega Drive and Sega Master System versions ), including the soul of his lover, Princess Prin Prin.

* Demonite is a demonic knight and the leader of the three.

* The Globetrotters appeared in the 2000 comedy Little Nicky with Adam Sandler, where they are shown losing to the Washington Generals, which is caused by one of Nicky's demonic brothers.

All cultures in which the Wendigo myth appeared shared the belief that human beings could turn into Wendigos if they ever resorted to cannibalism or, alternatively, become possessed by the demonic spirit of a Wendigo, often in a dream.

The second season introduced more supernatural occurrences into the show's mythology, with Frank often coming into conflict with forces that appeared to be apocalyptic or demonic in nature.

A blind psychic named Cassandra Craft ( first appeared in # 17, January-February 1972 ) would assist him, an alchemist / sorcerer named Tannarak ( first appeared in # 10, November-December 1970 ) was first an enemy and would later assist him against the Dark Circle ( first appeared in # 20, July-August 1972 ) and a demonic sorceress named Tala ( first appeared in # 4 ) would become his major personal enemy.

She has appeared periodically, often to encourage Anya back into her demonic ways.

The time era she appeared was calculated to be within the time a demonic star named Chi Guan ( 赤貫 ) passing through China, thus opening a rift allowing demons from the West for invasion.

Scripture reflects the fact that early Christians embraced marriage and yet felt that a false ascetic bias against marriage was seeping into their culture: 1 Timothy 4: 1 " In the last times, some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

Note that while the terms demon and demonic are used in monotheistic faiths as antonyms to divine, they are in fact derived from the Greek word daimón ( δαίμων ), which itself translates as divinity.

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

They also find a tape recorder that plays demonic incantations from the book, unleashing evil demons.

* The Screwtape Letters, written by C. S. Lewis, is purported to be a series of missives from a demonic teacher at a college to his protégé.

However the latter, demonic magic was not acceptable, because it was believed that such magic did not come from God, but from the Devil and his demons-these grimoires dealt in such topics as necromancy, divination and demonology.

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

The Traditions replenished their numbers ( which had been diminished by the withdrawal of two Traditions, the secretive Ahl-i-Batin, and the Solificati, alchemists plagued by scandal ) with former Technocrats from the Sons of Ether and Virtual Adepts factions, vying for the beliefs of sleepers and with the Technocracy, and perpetually wary of the Nephandi ( who consciously embrace evil and service to a demonic or alien master ) and the Marauders ( who resist Paradox with a magical form of madness ).

Written in the style of " The Screwtape Letters " but from a perspective that is not demonic, but angelic.

Thrall and Grom begin to hunt Mannoroth and Grom kills him, dying in the process, but in doing so freeing the orcs from the demonic control of Mannoroth at last.

It would therefore be circular to invoke these derived properties to defend the second law from the demonic argument.

Kurma Purana describes the preceding battle between the Purusha and demonic forces in which he escapes a powerful weapon called Pashupata and it describes how Prahlada's brothers headed by Anuhrada and thousands of other demons " were led to the valley of death ( yamalayam ) by the lion produced from the body of man-lion " avatara.

This association was inspired by the demonic hierarchy from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage.

In 2009, " You're Gonna Miss Me " was used at length during a scene in episode 21 of Alan Ball's HBO series True Blood, culminating in a frantic, ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Lafayette Reynolds and Lettie Mae Thornton to remove Tara Thornton from the demonic influence of maenad Maryann Forrester.

Despite the interest and realism of the system, which makes a case demonic invocations no Mage can not afford to treat lightly, this part of the system has not been well integrated with the rules of magic and is confined to the end of the rules, and also the mixture of styles, the Judeo-Christian demonology adjacent to the Thousand and One Nights, all sprinkled with a touch of mythology came from the writings of Tolkien.

* In folk epic and legends, Miloš was celebrated as the hero of supernatural birth and strength ( his mother was a fairy, demonic creature or his father was a dragon ; he had got his strength from the milk of the mare ).

On the Cartoon Network animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, David provided the voice of Nergal, a demonic creature from the Earth's core.

An important question in any examination of Joan is the question of whether or not she is a unified, stable character who vacillates from saintly to demonic, or a poorly constructed character, now one thing, now the other.

Michael Hattaway offers an alternate, sympathetic view of Joan which argues that the character's movement from saintly to demonic is justified within the text: " Joan is the play's tragic figure, comparable with Faulconbridge in King John.

In short, Agrippa argued for a synthetic vision of magic whereby the natural world combined with the celestial and the divine through Neoplatonic participation, such that ordinarily licit natural magic was in fact validated by a kind of demonic magic sourced ultimately from God.

However, kobold gifts may be stolen from the neighbours ; accordingly, some legends say that gifts from a kobold are demonic or evil.

But Ganelon lived and, as he tells Corwin, rose from leading an outlaw band to become leader of all the forces of Lorraine fighting against a strange evil: a constantly-expanding dark circle of toadstools from which demonic creatures and soulless men emerge.

He provides medicine and protection in the form of warding off dark and demonic spirits.

An angel appears to Daniel and explains that the demonic " prince of Persia " is in opposition, but that Michael " the great prince of Israel " will save them, as the only one who will " stand up.

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

In monotheistic faiths there is an equivalent cohort of malefic supranormal beings and powers, such as demons, devils, afreet, etc., which are not conventionally referred to as divine ; demonic is often used instead.

Among the obstacles are demonic monsters, pits of toxic or radioactive slime, ceilings that lower and crush the player, and locked doors for which a keycard, skull-shaped key device, or remote switch must be located.

Benton had professed beliefs in theistic satanism during Deicide's early years, claimed to slaughter rodents for fun, and that he held beliefs in demonic possession and that he was possessed.

However, Eusebius takes it a step further saying that Simon had demonic qualities and performed black magic in order to convince others he was divine.

To counter this, the Roman Catholic Church authorised the production of many works of exorcism, the rituals of which were often very similar to those of demonic conjuration.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

Interest in the demonic was heightened by the Gunpowder Plot.

Ghosts and monsters still remained a frequent feature of horror, but many films used the supernatural premise to express the horror of the demonic.

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.

These were manifested in stories of witches, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demonic pacts such as that of Faust.

* In DmC: Devil May Cry, Limbo is the name of a city that drags its victims into a demonic version of its human world counterpart where demons ( shown as twisted porcelain dolls ) and an ever-changing landscape ( floors falling out, buildings that crush their victims, etc.

) frequently attempt to kill the protagonist Dante after he is pulled into Limbo when caught in the sight of one of the city's demonic cameras.

Of 293 Christian church members, more than 32 percent were told by their church pastor that they or their loved one did not really have a mental illness, and that the cause of their problem was solely spiritual in nature, such as a personal sin, lack of faith or demonic involvement.