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Demonology
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demonology
the study of demons or demonic beliefs

Demonology 

in a number of religions a teaching concerning evil spirits that originated historically from a primitive belief in spirits.

Demonology is most important in religions with a dualistic division of the universe into a world of good and evil (for example, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism). In later religions that experienced the influence of Zoroastrianism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) demonology also became an important part of doctrinal belief.



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Along the way, our new friends became a bit more eclectic: a journalist based in Brussels working for a Greek newspaper, an obsessive filmmaker in Malibu, a psychic medium, and a New Hampshire demonologist.
If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful.
In this group appears an essay by Timothy Chesters on the motif of attempts to wound or kill ghosts with swords in the demonologist Psellos, the dramatist Shakespeare, and the poet Ronsard.
 
 
 
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