Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels

Flaxman Larry, Jones Marie D.

Description

& bull; Nearly 200 entries on examples of history, folklore, religious traditions, and pop-culture aspects of demons, fallen angels, devils, mythical creatures, religious evil deities, and other heinous creatures
& bull; From established authors and experts on the unexplained, and paranormal research
& bull; Horror movies, television shows, and books featuring demons and devils are perpetually popular
& bull; Demonic creatures have had a long and legendary career, with numerous myths, tales, stories, and places in culture and society throughout history
& bull; Incredibly thorough accounting of the history,
& bull; Stories gleaned from historical documents
& bull; Facts enhanced with compelling stories
& bull; Logical organization makes finding information quick and easy
& bull; Numerous black-and-white photographs
& bull; Thoroughly indexed
& bull; Authoritative resource
& bull; Written to appeal to anyone interested in demons, devils, fallen angels, and dark deities.
DOLLS

It is easy to see why dolls, puppets, dummies, poppets and effigies can be fertile ground for demonic possession. They look like humans and are often the most frightening of possessed objects because of that reason. The fear of dolls is called pediophobia, which is related to the overall fear of humanoid figures, called automatonophobia. There is even a fear of puppets, pupaphobia, so obviously there is something in human nature that upsets us about dolls of any kind...even pretty ones. In an article for Smithsonianmag.com, reporter Linda Rodrigues McRobbie references a horror movie director, John Leonetti, of the “Conjuring” movie franchise as having said in Huffington Post, that dolls are exceptional vehicles in horror films because they often emulate a human figure. “But they’re missing one big thing, which is emotion. So they’re shells. It’s a natural psychological and justifiable vehicle for demons to take it over... They’re hollow inside. That space needs to be filled.” Sometimes it’s filled with evil.

Dolls have been important culturally for thousands of years for their cultural and educational value, as well as for their entertainment purposes as playthings. Dolls have helped us adapt sociologically to changing norms of dress and behavior, and reflect cultural values and how we see children, or how we want them to be, according to Patricia Hodges, curator of The Strong National Museum of Play in New York. Hodges told Smithsonianmag.com’s reporter McRobbie that dolls were used in the 18th and 19th centuries to teach girls how to dress, act and behave and what the gender norms were for the times. Even today, dolls assist with social interaction and expression, and modern dolls also reflect the changing female roles available to girls.

In ancient times and in pagan communities of old, dolls and figurines would be used to represent actual people in ceremonies and rituals, for both positive and negative reasons, including statues and statuettes of religious figures. Gods and goddesses often had their own dolls to represent their specific powers in special rituals in Rome, Egypt and many other cultures that recognized a type of sympathetic magic – a more primitive belief of applying magical values to items that can then heal, harm or help grow crops and find food by mimicking the animal, person or object in question.

VOODOO DOLLS AND POPPETS

Think of voodoo dolls, which are used in ceremonies to not only curse someone, but rid the afflicted of illness, which was thought to be the presence of demons inside the body. Poppets are little dolls used for the same purpose, with roots in much older Germanic and Scandinavian cultures and are used today by many Wiccans and modern witches for rituals and spells. Effigies were used by many Native tribes, as well as in African and European cultures, and are still used today in political rallies to symbolize a hated politician or dictator.

Voodoo dolls and poppets are actually small effigies that have pins in them, and anyone can make them. They are not so much already possessed by demons, as vessels of the will and evil intentions of the person who makes the doll and casts the spell or curse. Yet, if the belief in these dolls is strong enough, they do work. In cultures that focus on natural magic and ascribe a spirit to everything, living or not, the mere suggestion that an object has cursed them, or cured them, is enough to trigger a strong type of “placebo effect” on the mind and the body. While voodoo dolls in Western culture are more of a fun novelty item, in Carribean nations and in Africa, the origin nation of voudon, they are powerful and not something to be toyed with.

One possibly possessed voodoo doll is the Voodoo Zombie Doll, another item sold on eBay with an allegedly supernatural history. This time, a woman from Galveston, Texas purchased the doll on eBay in 2004. The owner claimed it was made in New Orleans, a place itself riddled with spirits light and dark, and that it was not to be removed from the metal box with silver casing it was placed in. But of course the new owner did remove it, and thus claimed the doll attacked her and haunted her in her dreams. She repeatedly sent the doll to new owners on eBay but each time it would supposedly show back up again at her door. She finally got rid of it when a ghost hunter took it off her hands. If her story sounds familiar, just watch the “Talking Tina” episode of “Twilight Zone” as well as many other horror movies that play on the “returning demon doll” plotline!

Another creepy New Orleans doll is the Devil Baby, which was actually a carved gourd hung outside a home to ward off the child of a cursed woman. Story has it that Marie Laveau, the famous voodoo queen in the 1800s, cast a curse on a new bride, resulting in the bride giving birth to a horrific baby that looked like Satan. The baby was brought up by Laveau until her death, and when the baby died, it was buried with her in the same cemetery. But while it was alive, it was said to attack anyone who came near it. The carved Devil Baby Dolls scared it away if hung outside. Nowadays, these dolls are rare and worth a mint to collectors. Even newer made dolls are said to possess some evil spirits that cause them to speak and move on their own accord.

Much more terrifying are dolls that are claimed to actually be possessed by an entity or demon. A doll may be called “haunted” or possessed, and the two terms here can be used interchangeably, although in the case of an actual possessed doll, the entity within is always evil, whereas a ghost inhabiting a doll may not always be.

Dolls, even pretty ones, often evoke a bit of fear in all of us. We harbor a tiny bit of terror when we see a doll or a puppet or ventriloquist dummy thanks to popular culture and horror movies. But it goes a bit deeper. These objects play on our sense of self and identity. We see a doll and humanize it. Though our common sense tells us it is impossible for a demon to be inside a lovely doll, our fear addled brain wonders...what if? Two notorious possessed dolls have names that belie their horrific heritage – Annabelle and Robert.

ANNABELLE
If you have seen the popular movie “The Conjuring,” then you have met the lovely Annabelle, the truly demonic doll owned by the Perron family. Annabelle is allegedly possessed by an evil entity that plagued the family until famed demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren saved the family. The actual doll was a common Raggedy Ann ragdoll that many little girls have owned over the decades. In 1970, a woman purchased a rag doll in an antique shop to give to her daughter, Donna, who was about to graduate from nursing school. Donna loved the doll and put it on her bed in the apartment she shared with another nursing student named Angie.
Introduction

1. The Roots of All Evil
2. The Devil and His Counterparts in Folklore and Religious Traditions
3. Fallen Angels
4. Spirits, Elves, Cryptids, IDES, and Other Nasty Entities
5. Demonic Places
6. Possessed Property: Dolls, Ouija Boards, and Other Demonic Objects
7. Demonology, Exorcisms, and Demonic Possession
8. The Dark Arts: The Occult, Satanism, and Witchcraft
9. The Devil, Demons, and Fallen Angels in Pop Culture
10. Rituals, Practices, Deals, and Communication with Demons and the Devil
11. Personal Stories of Possession and Exorcisms

Appendices
A to Z Listing of Satan Counterparts across Cultures
Demon Classifications
Fallen Angels by Name

Further Reading
Index

Sujets

• Occultism
• Body (disambiguation)
• Demonology
• Witchcraft
• Satanism
• Occult
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578596676
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 21 Mo

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C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
THE ROOTS OF ALL EVIL
Original Sin
Sin and Hell
The Soul
THE DEVIL AND HIS COUNTERPARTS
The Devil
Satan
Islam s Satan
Where Did Satan Come From?
What Did Satan Look Like?
The Number of the Beast
The Serpent
Demons
Holiday Demons
World Myths and Folklore
Atheism and Evil
FALLEN ANGELS
Watchers and Nephilim
SPIRITS, ELVES, CRYPTIDS, IDES, AND OTHER NASTY ENTITIES
Cryptids and Demons
Interdimensional Entities (IDEs)
Skinwalkers
Elves, Fairies, and Elementals
Banshees, Psychopomps, and the Grim Reaper
Viral Demons and Fakelore
Shadow People
Jinn
DEMONIC PLACES
Museums
Island of Creepy Dolls
Crossroads
POSSESSED PROPERTY
Dybbuk Box
Dolls
Freaky Furnishings
Crazy Car?
Ouija
DEMONOLOGY, EXORCISMS, AND DEMONIC POSSESSION
Signs of Demonic Activity
Poltergeists or Demons?
Attachment
Exorcism
Mental Illness and Hysteria
Famous Exorcisms and Cases of Demonic Possession
Rise in Exorcisms
Selling Your Soul to the Devil
THE DARK ARTS
The Occult
Gnosticism and Mystery Traditions
Hitler, the Nazis, and Satanism
Secret Societies
Anti-Church
Black Magic and the Left-Hand Path
Sacrificial Rituals
Necromancy
Satanism
The Middle Ages
The Old Religions
Witchcraft
The Inquisitions
Torture
The Salem Witch Trials
The Malleus Maleficarum
The Modern Era of Satanism
Symbols of Satanism
Voodoo
THE DEVIL, DEMONS, AND FALLEN ANGELS IN POP CULTURE
Archetypes
Movies about Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels
Music
Literature
The Devil in the Fine Arts
Why We Love Demons
CONTACTING AND WORSHIPPING SATAN: RITUALS AND RITES
Contacting the Dark Side
Demon Guides
Ritual

Appendix A: Demon Classifications
Appendix B: Ranks of Hell
Appendix C: Devils and Demons A to Z
Further Reading
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
M arie and Larry would like to thank Lisa Hagan, their wonderful agent, for securing this book deal. Lisa, you are the best! Thanks also to the entire team at Visible Ink Press, especially Roger J necke and Kevin Hile. Thank you, Roger, for allowing us the pleasure to work with Visible Ink Press, and thank you, Kevin, for your editing expertise and insights! We look forward to working with the entire staff to make this book a success!
Marie would also like to thank her family, including her mom, Milly, who is my biggest cheerleader and is always there for me; my dad, who is watching from the stars and galaxies above and hopefully proud of me; my sister, Angella, and brother, John, and my extended family; my friends and colleagues; and to all my readers, fans, and followers everywhere-thank you. I also must thank, of course, Larry Flaxman, for another great collaboration together. It has been a long journey over nine books together, with ups and downs, good times and bad, but it has all been worth it. Most of all, I would like to thank my son, Max, who makes it all worthwhile! He is my sun, my moon, and my stars, and everything I do is for him.
Larry would like to thank his mom and dad, who continue to be his biggest supporters even from the other side of the veil; his family, friends, fans, colleagues, followers, and even his critics. Thanks also to Marie D. Jones for putting up with me over the last nine books. The past few years have provided many, many challenges, opportunities, and new experiences. There have been many times when I doubted myself. Believe it or not, I even made a few mistakes that caused me to second guess myself. Not only did you help me to learn from my mistakes but you proved that I could succeed in the literary world and have pushed me in directions that I likely would not have explored without you. Finally (and most importantly), I would like to thank my sweet daughter, Mary Essa. You are truly my greatest creation. Through your eyes, I have seen the same spark that I held as a child. Your curious nature and wonder at our amazing world (and reality) drives me to be a better person. You have proven to me that true, unconditional love exists-and I will forever strive to not only be the best human being that I can be but also the best role model for you.
I NTRODUCTION
W hen asked to write a book about the devil, demons, dark entities, fallen angels, and the like, your first reaction might be one of fear or even abject terror! Perhaps by writing about these scary and often misunderstood things, you might be inviting them into your experience, too, something other paranormal writers echoed when asked for advice. They claimed that electronics and computers would glitch. They did. They claimed sickness and sleep disturbances would occur. They did. But along with a number of other intriguing issues, were they really opening the door to looking deep into the heart of evil?
Yikes.
Devils and demons bring up frightening images and terrifying thoughts. We are trained to look upon them as objects of horror to be feared and avoided at all costs. But everything has an origin, and that means devils and demons do, too. Where did these concepts come from? Did they always exist? Are they only real to those who believe in them? Are they a part of our collective reality?
The quest to track an idea to its origin is what books like this are about. The best way to understand something is to know where it began and look at how it evolved over time. Sometimes, the origin-or zero point-of a concept can be completely different from the modern perspective or interpretation of it. Quite often, our attempts to interpret primitive and ancient ideas with our modern brains ruin the initial intentions behind these ideas. A demon may have originated one way, and now we experience it entirely differently because of the long road of changing perspectives (including those of the entertainment industry) that instantly make us think one particular thing when we hear the word.
Much of our modern perception of evil and the entities that represent it really do come from popular culture, but that is often rife with imagery, beliefs, and perceptions from far older times. Our history with such dark subjects is rich and deep, and like a snowball it gathers more mass as it rolls along. By reaching back into the past, we can better understand our present and possibly prepare for our future, and that includes our shifting concepts of bad, evil, death and destruction, and demonic entities that, as our religions tell us, may be responsible. It also might help us see the more than human origins of such ideas and how we ultimately need to take more responsibility for our own demons, devils, and evil behaviors.
Are demons real? Can the devil manifest into our world as human beings, a beastly entity, or even a nasty pet? Do fallen angels still walk the earth, or have they found their way back home? Or is this all simply the stuff of pure myth, paranormal speculation, and religious doctrine?
This book will serve as both an academic/objective and a speculative/subjective resource, as well as being just plain entertaining and enlightening. We will go way back in time to see from whence these dark beings emerged and how they got to be the way we see them today. It s a terrifying journey, no doubt, but it s been said that the more we know about something the less we fear it. In the immortal words of Eleanor Roosevelt, You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
By reading this book, hopefully the reader won t be opening a doorway to the other side, allowing all kinds of evil things to enter your realm of experience. You just might learn enough about the dual nature of humanity and the world we live in to make you rethink many of your ingrained beliefs.
Throughout these pages you will find fact, history, speculation, and theory. There is solid information and astounding person