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Demon Classifications: Alfonso de Spina’s List
In 1497 Alfonso de Spina compiled a list of demon classifications based on German folklore and other European countries. Ever since I stumbled across an article covering this list it has stuck in my mind – it’s the type of thing I would have loved to have known when I was younger!
I thought it was about time we covered these demon classifications in an article here…
1) Lucifer ( The Devil )
The main purpose of the devil is to draw mankind away from the power of god’s light into the darkness of hell. The devil started out as god’s highest ranked angel – he was the brightest angel in the sky!
But the devil was an arrogant, power hungry angel who refused to bow to god and plotted to take over heaven himself. He ended up ruling hell where he stands over all demons and lives in fear of the light.
2) Ghoul
The ghoul is a demon that originates from Arabian folklore and lives in graveyard areas away from the living. A ghoul has the power to shape shift into whatever animal it chooses.
Ghouls prey on small children that are too young to defend themselves. Once they have caught their prey – they eat it!
If they are unable to capture anything living they then turn their attentions to the dead – robbing graves and devouring the organs of freshly deceased bodies.
3) Poltergeist
A Poltergeist is a spirit demon that is able to manifest itself by moving objects. Historically, many hypotheses have been explored to explain poltergeist phenomenon but demon activity seems to be the most popular.
The Poltergeist gets it’s name from the German word for rumble – Poltern.
4) Incubus
An Incubus is a strange demon that aims to rape as many women as possible. It is obviously a male form that opts to lay upon sleeping females in an attempt to impregnate them.
A child from an Incubus is known to have great beauty due to the fact it’s father was once a fallen angel. The women an incubus picks are subjected to many sexual attacks whilst they sleep and over time their health ebbs slowly away.
5) Succubus
The Succubus comes from medieval mythology and is much like a female version of an Incubus. It is known to use beauty to seduce men into sexual acts – it attacks in-between awake and asleep when men are at their most vulnerable.
A Succubus’s true form is known to be quite disgusting but she is able to brainwash men into thinking she is something beautiful.
6) The Sabbat Demons
The witches Sabbath takes place once a year and it allows the most beautiful of witches to take part in a ritual orgy. During this ritual, Sabbat Demons possess the bodies of these beautiful witches.
Participants in the orgy are known to stamp all over the Christian cross and even allow themselves to be re-baptized under the name of Satan.
7) Drude
A Drude tends to target young female virgins and possess their bodies. At times they are able to leave these young bodies and either take a human form or travel in a sea of mist.
This mist form allows them to enter various properties with ease – they can basically slide under doors or through cracks in window sills or walls. It leaves the safety of the virgin’s body to claim victims by sitting down on their torso and crushing the chest.
8) Fairies ( Familiars )
Fairies or Familiars are the minions of witches and tend to work with only intelligent, dark and twisted people. Witches are in complete control of Familiars and send them out to gather these intelligent individuals with evil intentions.
They are another form of demon that is able to shape shift into various animals. If you ever spot a Familiar and they notice you looking at them, they are able to take your form whilst you are sent to burn in hell ( they basically replace you! ).
9) Hobgoblins
Hobgoblins are very small cannibals that are able to turn invisible and take up residence in your home. They hang about in home’s near the piping systems where they are free to feast on the dead skin washed down the various drains.
Of course they are able to leave their maze of pipes to hunt down fresh flesh if they feel the need…
10) Goblins
Apparently goblins are not just a favorite of Tolkien novels – they are also called upon by witchcraft and demonologists. When they materialize they are used to provide good health or wealth to the summoner.
There is a price to pay for receiving favors from these gruesome creatures. When the benefactor finally dies and his/her soul moves on they find the goblin waiting for them on the other side…wanting their payment in full!
Demon Classifications
I realize that Alfonso de Spina’s demon classifications should be taken with a pinch of salt due to their nature of being based on traditional folklore. There are many demonologists and white witches that STRONGLY BELIEVE these entities exist…what’s your opinion?
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Kind of on the ooga booga side, but good read none the less, thanks Jeffery!
Go away shill .
get bent
Demonology is a very fascinating subject. In some of the ancient grimoires used by magicians and exorcism tomes that were (and in rare cases still are) used by the Church, there’s virtually a different demon to occupy each day of the year that can be summoned for almost any purpose imaginable. Personally, I choose to look at them as archetypal/symbolic, latent forces in the psyche that personify our darker, carnal sides. To truly be complete and advance as spiritual beings we must explore and master both sides of our nature, for every light casts its shadow.
γνῶθι σεαυτὸν—gnōthi seauton: Know Thyself
haha well you do know that the word demon came from the greek Dæmon who were benevolent one of the many things Christian propaganda stole stole
Lucifer, or the bringer of light, did not wish heaven for himself. It was his hatred for humans that got him cast out.
However, this is folklore, the luciferian figure has many different meaning depending on which culture you come from.
The concept is often associated with the Prometheus myth and many other.
Lady Le Fay is correct to say that they are archetypes. Each demon/angel represent a concept. On the contrary of man that would be made of pieces of all concepts, “spiritual” beings would only be one. That is why it is said that Man is created in God’s image : “infinite” potential.
The issue with this lecture angel/demons is that it creates a binary way of thinking “either demon either angel”. That kinds of sucks as the invisible world would be much more rich then just 2 types of archetype.
For those who want to dig deeper in this, I’d suggest a closer look at the different sephiroth of the tree of life has all of this classification is done pretty well from uncreated to created etc.
I can’t prove it (since I can’t provide any empirical evidence), but I know that the invisible world exists. And like Hermes T. would say “as above as below”. Concepts of good and evil are too limited. I prefer the concepts of what is needed and what is wanted.
“I smell demon stink.” – Carl Jung in Freud’s Follies.