The Malleus Maleficarum is a Latin treatise associated with the inquisitor Heinrich Kramer. It combined demonological argument with proposals for prosecuting alleged witches. Its allegations, treatment of women, and influence require critical historical reading.
Mastema is a leader of harmful spirits in the Book of Jubilees. His appearances in the stories of Noah, Abraham, and Moses connect temptation, accusation, and hostility with a power that remains subject to divine limits.
Iblis is the figure who refuses God’s command to bow to Adam in the Qur’an. Islamic commentary and Sufi literature explore his pride, his relationship to the jinn, his role as a tempter, and the meaning of his disobedience.
The Devil is a tarot trump commonly numbered XV. Its imagery and interpretation vary between decks and writers. Waite and Papus connect it with material constraint, fatality, and occult forces, while tarot’s history begins in the world of playing cards.
Modern Pagan religious witchcraft, its Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions, ritual practice, and relationship to Satanism.
How witchcraft has meant an accusation, a magical practice, and a modern identity, with examples from museums and trial records.
The patented talking-board game, its pointer and commercial history, and research on ideomotor movement and implicit memory.
A term for ritual inversion of Christian worship, with Huysmans's literary portrayal and a modern distinction from Satanic Mass.
The different holiday calendars published by the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple, with dates and organizational meanings.
An altar is a designated place or surface used for religious devotion, ritual, offerings, sacred objects, or symbolic focus. Altars occur in many religious traditions, but their forms and meanings vary widely. In modern theistic Satanism an altar may function as a place for Prayer, Ritual, Offerings, meditation, spirit work, or the display of symbols connected with Satan and other beings.
The Temple of Set is an initiatory organization whose identity centers on Set and Xeper. Its relationship with Satanism requires attention to both historical origins and later self-description.
A Goetic marquis associated with rhetoric and the restoration of lost honors.
A Goetic spirit combining learned offices with a violent reputation and a winged dog form.
The second Goetic spirit, described as an elderly rider with a crocodile and a goshawk.
A Goetic marquis with a wolf-like appearance, associated with knowledge and the making or resolution of disputes.
A Goetic duke connected with the speech of animals, enchanted treasure, and reconciliation.
A Goetic king riding a pale horse, associated with desire and an elaborate ceremonial reception.
A Goetic duke depicted as a knight, associated with hidden matters, battles, and favor from powerful people.
A Goetic spirit with an angelic body, lion head, goose foot, and hare tail, associated with knowledge and boldness.
A Goetic duke with three heads, a serpent mount, and a firebrand, associated with fire and private questions.