Demon

Bronze statuette of the Assyro-Babylonian demon king Pazuzu, circa 800 BC – circa 700 BC, Louvre

A demon is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

Quotes

Evil power disappears
Demons worry when the wizard is near
He turns tears into joy
Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by.
- The Wizard, from the album Black Sabbath, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward

Man's need of self-esteem entails the need for a sense of control over reality – but no control is possible in a universe which, by one's own concession, contains the supernatural, the miraculous and the causeless, a universe in which one is at the mercy of ghosts and demons, in which one must deal, not with the unknown, but with the unknowable; no control is possible if man proposes, but a ghost disposes; no control is possible if the universe is a haunted house.
- Nathaniel Branden, "Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice" (1963)

May a cruel curse be uttered against the galla demon who has brought his hand against you.
- Elegy on the Death of Nawirtum (3rd millennium BCE).

The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.
- Justin Martyr. Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40

I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too.
- Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 21, New International Version.

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