Tradition 11 of 33
Demonology, angelology, and possession
Demons, angels, spirit hierarchies, possession, exorcism, Satanism, and Goetic traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,321
- Earliest
- 825 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 31%
- 709 with public full text
- With covers
- 50%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,967
- Metadata match222
- Query match124
- Source classification (retained through merging)8
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
- Demonology709
- angels386
- Early works to 1800312
- Witchcraft244
- Exorcism228
- Demoniac possession213
- History193
- Fiction192
- Magic161
- Démonologie152
- Satanism130
- occultism125
- Devil118
- Dämonologie118
- Demonología104
- Social Sciences104
- Philosophy103
- Art90
- christianity90
- Arts and Humanities81
- Juvenile fiction80
- Religion75
- Literature74
- public domain66
Top languages
- English1,305 · 56%
- French243 · 10%
- Latin243 · 10%
- German177 · 8%
- Spanish60 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Johann Weyer22 in this tradition24 books
- Jean Bodin16 in this tradition25 books
- Walter Scott15 in this tradition42 books
- Iamblichus12 in this tradition17 books
- Doreen Virtue11 in this tradition24 books
- Balthasar Bekker11 in this tradition14 books
- Girolamo Menghi11 books
- Reginald Scot10 in this tradition11 books
- John Darrel10 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg9 in this tradition66 books
- Jakob Sprenger9 in this tradition13 books
- Sébastien Michaelis9 in this tradition11 books
2,321 books
The sword of Moses
Moses Gaster
1896
The vvorlde possessed with deuils
Pierre Viret
1583
The words of the angels, or, Their visits to the earth and the messages they delivered
R. Stier
1877
The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c
James I King of England
1620
The world turn'd upside down, or, A plain detection of errors, in the common or vulgar belief, relating to spirits, spectres or ghosts, dæmons, witches, &c
Balthasar Bekker
1700
The worlde possessed with deuils
Pierre Viret
1583
Thoughts on the cherumbimical mystery, or An attempt to prove that the cherubims were emblems of salvation, by the blood of Jesus
James Relly
1808
Twelve sketches illustrative of Sir Walter Scott's Demonology and witchcraft
George Cruikshank
1830
Two common places taken out of Andreas Hyperius, a learned diuine, whereof, in the one, he sheweth the force that the sonne, moone and starres haue ouer men, &c. In the other, whether the deuils haue bene the shewers of magicall artes, &c. Translated into English by R.V
Andreas Hyperius
1581
Unclean spirits
Daniel Pickering Walker
1981
What "free church" means and why churches should be free
J. H. Hobart Brown
1857
Witchcraft and demonism
Cecil L'Estrange Ewen
1970
Witchcraft and demonology in Scott's fiction
Coleman Oscar Parsons
1964
Yakṣa in Hinduism and Buddhism
Gail Hinich Sutherland
1992
[Angelokratia theou], or, A sermon touching Gods government of the world by angels
Robert Gell
1650
hammer of witches
Heinrich Kramer, Christopher S Mackay
2009
realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe
Edward Bever
2008
sataniske bibelen
Anton Szandor LaVey, Wolf's Lair DA
2004
Ākām al-marǧān fī aḥkām al-ǧānn
Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh aš- Šiblī, Edward Badeen
2017Arabic
Die Dämonologie Jesu
Tim Matzko
2025German
Die Dämonen
Robert Müller-Sternberg
1964German
Die Dämonen im Alten Testament
Heinrich Kaupel
1930German
La Demonologie de Plutarque
Guy Soury
1942French
"Demonicheskoe" v khudozhestvennoĭ kulʹture Serebri︠a︡nogo veka
Liana Vladimirovna Popova, Л. В. Попова
2023Russian