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  2. Classification of demons - Wikipedia

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    The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.

  3. Choronzon - Wikipedia

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    Choronzon / ˌ k oʊ ˌ r oʊ n ˈ z oʊ n / is a demon that originated in writing with the 16th-century occultists Edward Kelley and John Dee within the latter's occult system of Enochian magic.

  4. List of demons in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Bearded Demon (Supernatural TV series) The Beast ; The Beast (Over The Garden Wall) Behemoth (Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita) Demon Behemoth (Timm Thaler) Be'lakor the Dark Master and other Daemons (Rick Priestley, Warhammer tabletop games) Beelzeboss (Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny) Beelzebub (Demon Lord Dante) Beelzebub

  5. Demon - Wikipedia

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    Bronze statue of the Assyro-Babylonian demon king Pazuzu, c. 800–700 BCE, Louvre. A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. [1] Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in folklore, mythology, religion, and literature; these beliefs are reflected in media including comics, fiction, film, television, and video games.

  6. Demon core - Wikipedia

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    The demon core (like the core used in the bombing of Nagasaki) was, when assembled, a solid 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) sphere measuring 8.9 centimeters (3.5 in) in diameter.. It consisted of three parts made of plutonium-gallium: two hemispheres and an anti-jet ring, designed to keep neutron flux from "jetting" out of the joined surface between the hemispheres during implosi

  7. Mikoshi-nyūdō - Wikipedia

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    There are many where the true identity of mikoshi-nyūdō is unclear, but there are regions where they are animals that possess the ability to transform. In the legends of Hinoemata, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture, they are shapeshifted weasels, and it is said that if one gets lured to look up from the nyūdō ' s expansion, the weasel would take that opening and bite at one's throat.

  8. Valac - Wikipedia

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    Valak as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal. Valac is a demon described in the goetic grimoires The Lesser Key of Solomon (in some versions as Ualac or Valak [1] and in Thomas Rudd's variant as Valu), [2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as Volac), [3] the Liber Officiorum Spirituum (as Coolor or Doolas), [4] [5] and in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Volach) [6] [7] [8] as ...

  9. Demon (thought experiment) - Wikipedia

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    This demon was devised by Young Earth creationist Glenn Morton to explain the phenomenon of confirmation bias. Demon of bureaucratic chaos – Relates to the phenomenon that "blocks good things from happening" at the United States Department of Energy. This hypothesized entity makes it extremely difficult to complete complex projects — by ...