Use of the name " Lucifer " for the devil stems from a particular interpretation of, a passage that does not speak of any fallen angel but of the defeat of a particular Babylonian King, to whom it gives a title that refers to what in English is called the Day Star or Morning Star ( in Latin, lucifer, meaning " light-bearer ", from the words lucem ferre ).

One likely source stems from the fact that worn and broken lead type is thrown into a hellbox, which the printer's devil must take to the furnace for melting and recasting.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

Some taught that existence was a snare and a delusion, that the world, the flesh, and the devil existed only to tempt weak humankind away from God.

Whenever I hear of any act of idolatrous worship, I go to the place with a large band of these children, who very soon load the devil with a greater amount of insult and abuse than he has lately received of honor and worship from their parents, relations, and acquaintances.

The history of the devil and the idea of evil: from the earliest times to the present day ( 1899 ) full text

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, 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.

Even in the New Testament itself, Sigve K Tonstad argues, the War in Heaven theme of, in which the dragon " who is called the devil and Satan … was thrown down to the earth ", derives from the passage in Isaiah 14.

Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: ' versoria ' is a nautical term, " sheet ", while versiera / aversiera is " she-devil ", " witch ", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for " devil " ( Adversary of God ).

" In another poem he says " The wine is such a devil that I have to protect my people from it by drinking all of it ".

Norman Cohn, in his book Europe's Inner Demons, also accused Murray of falsifying her evidence by selectively quoting from the testimony of accused witches, deliberately leaving out fantastical elements to support her claim that real events were being described rather than fantasies ; such elements include testimonies of flying to meetings, transforming into animals, or seeing the devil disappear and reappear suddenly.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: " Since Baptism signifies liberation from sin and from its instigator the devil, one or more exorcisms are pronounced over the candidate ".

Because it is faith alone that receives these divine gifts, Lutherans confess that baptism " works forgiveness of sins, delivers from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe this, as the words and promises of God declare.

Consequently, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee assumed leadership following Winston Churchill, whose Soviet policy since the early 1940s had differed considerably from former U. S. President Roosevelt's, with Churchill believing Stalin to be a " devil "- like tyrant leading a vile system.

In Christianity, the title became a personal name, and " Satan " changed from an accuser appointed by God to test men's faith to the chief of the rebellious fallen angels (" the devil " in Christianity, " Shaitan " in Arabic, the term used by Arab Christians and Muslims ).

In the Septuagint the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos ( slanderer ), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word devil is derived.

While Shaitan ( شيطان, from the root ) is an adjective ( meaning " astray " or " distant ", sometimes translated as " devil ") that can be applied to both man (" al-ins ", الإنس ) and Jinn, Iblis () is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur ' anic account of Genesis.

According to this account, a group of Israelites learned magic, for demonstration and to test them, from two angels called Harut and Marut, and it adds that this knowledge of magic would be passed on to others by the devil.

The date that the Tasmanian devil became locally extinct from the Australian mainland is unclear ; most evidence suggests they had contracted to three relict populations around 3000 years ago.

The specific lineage of the Tasmanian devil is theorised to have emerged during the Miocene, molecular evidence suggesting a split from the ancestors of quolls between 10 and 15 million years ago, when severe climate change came to bear in Australia, transforming the climate from warm and moist to an arid, dry ice age, resulting in mass extinctions.

It is not clear whether the modern devil evolved from S. laniarius, or whether they coexisted at the time.

In 2006 some of the club's fans, supported by then-manager Jorginho who is an Evangelical Christian, attempted to replace the diabo with a bald eagle, claiming that the devil was unlucky.

Yet another theory is that it was taken from a nickname for the devil, " Old Roger ".

In some cases, the bogeyman is a nickname for the devil.

A nickname that people call the water beetle is the water devil.

Salford lost the uniqueness of their red devil nickname when local soccer team Manchester United decided to replace their " Busby's Babes " nickname following the Munich crash.

Matt Busby liked the sound of " Red Devils ", thinking a devil was more intimidating to opponents than angelic babes and Manchester United copied " The Red Devils " nickname.

Its name is possibly intended to convey a sense of unease, evil, or " wrongness ", since " Hob " is an old nickname for the devil.

His exploits and red dress earned him the nickname of the ' red devil ' from the Russians.

The word derives from the Norse word grimr meaning devil and a nickname for Odin or Wodin the God of War and Magic.

Other common names are Orange Hawkweed, Fox and Cubs, Devil's paintbrush and Red devil.

** 1952: Manta, Teufel im Roten Meer ( Manta, devil in the Red Sea ): English version: Manta, Under the Red Sea with Spear and Camera, English translation by James Cleugh, 1952, Rand McNally & Co., Library of Congress Card Cat.

From the first floor of the Infini Palace, through a hidden door, it is finally possible to gain access to the Red Tower ( 赤の塔 aka no tou ), home to the great devil Lucifer.

He declared Manchester United should also be known as " The Red Devils " and soon the club began incorporating the devil logo into match programmes and scarves.

* Red devil cichlid

The concept of the folk devil was introduced by sociologist Stanley Cohen in 1972, in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which analysed media controversies concerning Mods and Rockers in the United Kingdom of the 1960s.

Though the normal German spelling is Spaßguerilla, Teufel's spelling became known as the " teuflische Schreibweise " ( a pun meaning either " Teufelian " spelling or " diabolical spelling "; Teufel in German means devil ).

The candidate is twice anointed: first, with the oil of exorcism, after he has said, with his face westward, " I renounce you, O devil, and all your following "; and, again, immediately after the baptism.

As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.