Tradition 11 of 33
Demonology, angelology, and possession
Demons, angels, spirit hierarchies, possession, exorcism, Satanism, and Goetic traditions.
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- Books
- 1,371
- Earliest
- 825 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 22%
- 306 with public full text
- With covers
- 54%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,118
- Metadata match174
- Query match73
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Demonology385
- Fiction182
- History160
- Exorcism146
- Démonologie129
- Witchcraft125
- Dämonologie118
- Demoniac possession116
- Satanism108
- Demonología104
- Social Sciences104
- Magic92
- Philosophy90
- Angels89
- Art85
- Arts and Humanities81
- Occultism79
- Literature70
- Devil60
- Children's fiction56
- Early works to 180054
- Christianity52
- RELIGION51
- Juvenile fiction49
Top languages
- English849 · 62%
- French113 · 8%
- German92 · 7%
- Latin73 · 5%
- Spanish40 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Walter Scott13 in this tradition37 books
- Doreen Virtue11 in this tradition24 books
- Jean Bodin8 in this tradition15 books
- Darren Shan8 in this tradition9 books
- Cassandra Clare8 books
- Anton Szandor LaVey7 books
- Ed Warren7 books
- Montague Summers6 in this tradition18 books
- Heinrich Kramer6 in this tradition9 books
- Francisco Torreblanca Villalpando6 in this tradition8 books
- Gabriele Amorth6 books
- Peter V. Brett6 books
1,371 books
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A treatise of specters, or, Straunge sights, visions, and apparitions appearing sensibly vnto men
Pierre le Loyer, Thomas Pennant Barton, Queen Catherine de Medicis, King of England James I, Zachary Jones, Matthew Lownes, Valentine Simmes
1605
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Male witches in early modern Europe
Lara Apps, Andrew Gow
2003
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New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies
Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Shaul Magid
2024
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Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Marinos Sariyannis
2025
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Realizing the Witch
Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers
2016
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Speaking of Satan in Zambia
Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
2022
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L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante
Anna Angelini
2021French
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Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe
Letizia Vezzosi
2025
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
Ruy Blanes, Michelle MacCarthy, Knut Rio
2017
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The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified
Richard Baxter
1691
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«Non lasciar vivere la malefica»
Dinora Corsi, Matteo Duni
2008Italian
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The demi-gods
James Stephens
1914
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The haunted house, a true ghost story
Walter Hubbell
1879
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Daimonologia, or, A treatise of spirits
Jacques de Daillon
1723
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The certainty of the worlds of spirits, and consequently, of the immortality of souls. of the malice and misery of the devils, and the damned. And of the blessedness of the justified
Richard Baxter, Colonel Henry Hamlyn Fane, David Laing Philips
1691
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An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions
James Thacher
1831
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Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
Maren Sziede, Helmut Zander
2014German
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The demonism of the ages
James Martin Peebles
1904
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Studien zur Volkskunde Südosteuropas und des mediterranen Raums
Walter Puchner
2009German
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A declaration of egregious popish impostures to with-draw the harts of Her Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils practised by Edmunds, alias Weston a Iesuit, and diuers Romish priests his wicked associates
Thomas Pennant Barton, Samuel Harsnett, James Roberts, Thomas Rodd
1603
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Ars artium ... [etc.]
Elias Ashmole, John Dee, Richard Napier, Charles Rainsford
1787
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Thirty Years Among the Dead
Carl Wickland
1924
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Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons
Increase Mather
1696
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The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open, in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and county of Lancaster
Zachary Taylor
1696