After God created Adam, the devil (originally an angel or jinn) refuses to obey God’s order, which enjoins the angels to bow or to prostrate before the first man. God curses and banishes the devil but grants him respite until the Day of Judgement...

A dimple in the chin, a devil within. (Irish) A young angel, an old devil. (French) All saint without, all devil within. (Italian) An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house. (Dutch) An usurer, a miller, a banker, and a barkeeper, are...

In the *Bible, the term Satan means an adversary and in the later books, Satan came to refer to a supernatural being who accused men in the heavenly assembly. This was Satan’s role in the Book of *Job. In the *Apocrypha and later Jewish...

There are numerous classes of demons mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. The personification of evil and the tempter of man is usually called Māra (q.v.). The allegory of the Buddha’s temptation by Māra is related in the Mahā...

Developer's Image Library or DevIL (originally called OpenIL; the name was changed at a request from Silicon Graphics, Inc.), started by Denton Woods, is a cross-platform image library which aims to provide a common API for different image file format....

Devil is Devil May Cry 4 PS3/X360, '70 EXQUISITE tailoring is just as important to the hero of DMC4 as slaying teeming hordes of demons with sword and gun. Super-athletic and part-demon himself, brooding idol Nero cuts a dash in...

Where philosophy was mute and religion tongue-tied, a judge of New Jersey's lowest court turned loquacious. Faced with the Gordian knot of the Baby M case, Judge Harvey R. Sorkow took the sword of contract law and smashed everything in sight. In the end,...

The New Jersey Devils put a disappointing loss in Vancouver behind them in a hurry.Patrik Elias and Brian Gionta scored in a 35-second span of the third period and New Jersey rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 on Friday night in first-year Devils coach...

Patrik Elias' tip-in snapped a second-period tie and the New Jersey Devils beat the Washington Capitals 4-1 on Friday night.Travis Zajac and Zach Parise had power-play goals for the Devils, who have scored with a man advantage in a season-high five straight games. New Jersey...

In the following essay, originally published in 1931, Rudwin considers the sympathetic portrayal of Satan in nineteenth-century poetry.

In the following essay, Vatter surveys figures bearing qualities of the Miltonic Satan in the writings of English Romantic poets and Gothic novelists.

In the following excerpt, Weiner describes the demonological elements of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and their relationship to the novelist's authorial persona.