ANGELS, DEMONS & THE OTHERWORLD · LESSON 10 OF 13 · 17 MIN
Demonology — A Short History
From the Greek daimon to the catalogues of hell — the Testament of Solomon, Weyer's list, Binsfeld's princes and the Dictionnaire Infernal.
Demonology — the systematic study of demons — sounds like the most sinister corner of magic. Its history is stranger and more human than that. It includes saints and sceptics, magicians and witch-hunters, a physician who tried to save accused witches, and a Parisian writer who made hell into an illustrated encyclopaedia. This lesson traces how the catalogues of demons used by magicians came to be.