Satan

thumb|Illustration of the Devil on Codex Gigas, early thirteenth century Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions who entices humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the , or 'evil inclination'. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons.

thumb|The Fallen Angel (painting)|The Fallen Angel (1847) by [[Alexandre Cabanel|250x250px]] Lucifer is believed to be a fallen angel and the Devil in Christian theology. Lucifer is associated with the sin of pride and believed to have attempted an usurpation of God, whereafter being banished to Earth.

thumb|Angels in Islam|Angels honor Adam, except Iblis, who refuses. Painting from an illustrated subsection containing Bal'ami's Persian rendition of the Annals in a much larger Herat manuscript.

thumb|Beelzebub's appearance from the Dictionnaire Infernal, akin to a [[fly]] thumb|"Beelzebub and them that are with him shoot arrows" from John Bunyan's ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)]] thumb|upright|Beelzebub as a character in the mummers play|mumming play St George and the Dragon'' by the St Albans Mummers, 2015

volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire

tree of forbidden fruit of knowledge in first biblical narrative, book of Genesis

right|Apollyon (top) battling Christian in John Bunyan's ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress|250px|thumb]] The Hebrew term Abaddon ( , meaning "destruction", "doom") and its Greek equivalent Apollyon (, Apollúōn meaning "Destroyer") appear in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss. In the Hebrew Bible, abaddon'' is used with reference to a bottomless pit, often appearing alongside the place Sheol ( ), meaning the resting place of dead peoples.

One of a series of rituals carried out by Muslim pilgrims as part of the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca

thumb|Samael (1890) by Evelyn De Morgan thumb|A relief of the Archangel Samael in red robe, shown on the left side of the altar at Saint Bartholomew's Church, in Sydenham, London.

utterances mistaken for Islamic revelation

Taghut (, ṭāġūt; pl. ṭawāġīt (); broadly: "to go beyond the measure") is Islamic terminology denoting the worship of another deity besides God. In traditional theology, the term often connotes idols or demons drawn to blood of pagan sacrifices. They appear wherever a person has been murdered. The pre-Islamic deities al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā, later also Satan, are associated with that term.

fifteenth Major Arcana tarot card, symbolising sexuality, passion and magnetism

painting by Francisco de Goya, 1798

thumb|Miniature from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.945, f. 107r A Hellmouth, or the jaws of Hell, is the entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image that first appeared in Anglo-Saxon art, and then spread all over Europe. It remained very common in depictions of the Last Judgment and Harrowing of Hell until the end of the Middle Ages, and was still sometimes used during the Renaissance and after. It enjoyed something of a revival in polemical popular prints after the Protestant Reformation, when figures from the opposite side wou

Barsisa, ("the man of priestly regalia", from Aramaic bar, "son", and ṣīṣa, "gold plate", referring specifically to the high priest's breastplate) in Islamic theology, was an ascetic who succumbed to the Devil's temptations and denied God.

part of the scriptural canon of the LDS movement; originally Genesis 1–6 of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible; today published as part of the Pearl of Great Price

New-Testament term for claimants of descent of Judah, but are not Judahite

figure equated with Satan in Christianity

religious sculpture by Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs

thumb|Two angels turn back and see with alarm that Iblis|Iblīs will not bow down before ʾĀdam. 1388 [[Persian miniature from a manuscript of ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt ("Wonders of Creation") by al-Ṭūsī Salmānī, century.]]

group of paintings by William Blake

Witch's supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil

The Scholomance ( , Solomonărie ) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania. Folkloric accounts state that the Devil himself ran it. The school enrolled about ten students to become the Solomonari. Courses taught included the speech of animals and magic spells. The Devil chose one of the graduates to be the Weathermaker and tasked with riding a dragon to control the weather.

apocryphal book

Mastema ( Masṭēmā; Mesetēma), Mastemat, or Mansemat, is an antagonistic angel in the Book of Jubilees. He first appears in the literature of the Second Temple Period as a personification of the Hebrew word mastemah (מַשְׂטֵמָה), meaning "hatred", "hostility", "enmity", or "persecution".

right|thumbnail|The Mowing Devil pamphlet. The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet published in 1678. It narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire, and presents itself as reporting the news. It has been cited as an early report of crop circles.

essay by Daniel Defoe

circle of ground in Bear Creek,North Carolina believed to be cursed