Introduction by Scott G. Bruce
Suggestions for Further Reading
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF DEMONS
Legends of the Fall: Rebel Angels in Ancient Judaism
The Mystery of the Nephilim: From the Book of Genesis
The Prison of the Fallen: From the Book of Enoch
Against the Giants: From the Book of Jubilees
A Remedy against Demonic Attacks: From Flavius Josephus’s Judean War
I Am Legion: Demons in Ancient Christian Thought
Intimate Adversaries: From the New Testament
In the Guise of Gods: From Justin Martyr’s Second Apology
Their Work Is the Ruin of Humankind: From Tertullian’s On the Spectacles and Apology
Origen’s Folly: From Jerome’s Letter to Avitus
Delivered from Filthy Tyranny: From Augustine’s Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans
The Angels of Tartarus: From the Apocalypse of Paul
The Fall of Simon Magus: From Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend
Mastered by Magic: Demons in the King Solomon Tradition
From Sage to Mage: From the Hebrew Scriptures and Flavius Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews
Enslaved by Solomon’s Ring: From the Testament of Solomon
Dwellers in the Wasteland: Demons in Dark Age Europe
The Desert, a Battlefield: From Athanasius’s Life of Antony
Taming a Hell-Beast: From Jerome’s Life of Hilarion
Frenzied Possessions: From Sulpicius Severus’s Life of Martin
The Ancient Gods Are Frauds: From Martin of Braga’s On the Correction of the Countryfolk
Lurking on the Threshold: From Pope Gregory the Great’s Dialogues
Inhabitants of Hell: From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Entrusted to Torment You: From Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Spirits of Fire and Air: The Riddle of the Jinn
Quranic Demonology: From the Qur’an
A Short History of the Jinn: From the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
Prisons of the Jinn: From the One Thousand and One Nights
Eaters of Children: The Witch-Demons of Byzantium
Monks Contemplate the Nature of Demons: From Michael Psellos’s Concerning Demons
Saints in Pursuit of the Gellou: Two Story Charms against the Witch-Demon
The Lady of the Mountain: A Late Byzantine Magical Formula
Legends of the Child-Eater: From John Lawson’s Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion
A Thousand Arts of Injury: Demons in the High Middle Ages
A Malice Foretold in Scripture: From Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles
Tundale’s Tormentors: From the Vision of Tundale
Dunstan’s Tongs: From Osbern of Canterbury’s Life of Dunstan
From Holy Hound to Devil Dog: From Stephen of Bourbon’s Treatise on Diverse Preaching Materials
Preying on the Laity: From Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles
The Psalm-Skipper Demon: From Late Medieval Exempla Collections
Satan’s Family: From Late Medieval Exempla Collections
The Craven Angels: From the Voyage of Saint Brendan, Wolfram’s Parzival, and Dante’s Inferno
Apes of God: Demons in Early Modern Europe
A Covenant of Death: From Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend
A Faustian Bargain: From The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus
Thou Profoundest Hell Receive Thy New Possessor: From John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Serpent Kings and Animal Spirits: Demons of the East
Hymns against Demons and Sorcerers: From the Rig Veda
The Serpent-King Zahhak: From Shahnameh: The Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Fatal Fox-Girls and Other Perils: From Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
The Allure of the Incubus: Demon Lovers through the Ages
The Air’s Embrace: From Augustine’s Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans
Lascivious Spirits: From Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles
Demon Seed: From Heinrich Kraemer’s The Hammer of Witches and Nicolas Rémy’s Demonolatry
A Warning for Married Women: From the Ballad “The Daemon Lover”
The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: From Walter Scott’s “Glenfinlas”
Creeping Horrors: Malevolent Spirits in the Modern Imagination
Frozen Hearts: Cannibal Spirits of the American North
A Dark Huntsman on the Moors: From Sabine Baring-Gould’s A Book of the West
A Demon Drawn from Life: From M. R. James’s “Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book”
All I Want’s My Tailypo: A Fiend of the American South