In 1326, Pope John XXII issued the papal bull Super illius Specula, [156] which condemned folk divination practices as consultation with Satan. In the early 1900s, jazz and blues became known as the "Devil's Music" as they were considered "dangerous and unholy".

In Reform Judaism, Satan is generally seen in his Talmudic role as a metaphor for the yetzer hara and the symbolic representation of innate human qualities such as selfishness. In the Quran, Shaitan, also known as Iblis, is an entity made of fire who was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly created Adam and incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with waswās ("evil suggestions"). His guitar playing is noted for its dark, minor-key sound, played in an open D-minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique.Muslims do distinguish between the satanic temptations and the murmurings of the bodily lower self ( nafs). warns that Satan tries to keep Muslims from reading the Quran [195] and 16:98–100 recommends reciting the Quran as an antidote against Satan. Based on the Jewish exegesis of 1 Samuel 29:4 and 1 Kings 5:18 – Oxford dictionary of the Jewish religion, 2011, p. Now, in Rather Be the Devil, he is on the periphery of the police, itching to get involved but unable to find a role.

However, the beast mentioned in Revelation 13 is not Satan, [115] and the use of 666 in the Book of Revelation has been interpreted as a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero, as 666 is the numeric value of his name in Hebrew.James subsequently recorded for Takoma Records, Melodeon Records, and Vanguard Records and performed at various engagements until his death from cancer on October 3, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 67. Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film, Carrol Lee Fry, Associated University Presse, 2008, pp.

The Golden Legend was the most popular book during the High and Late Middle Ages [152] and more manuscripts of it have survived from the period than for any other book, including even the Bible itself. van der Toorn, Karel; Becking, Bob; Willem, Pieter (1999), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (seconded. Solid Air was given a further remastering and repackaging when a double CD reissue curated by John Hillarby was released in 2009, and which included several alternate studio and live versions. Satan appears in several stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, [257] including " The Summoner's Prologue", in which a friar arrives in Hell and sees no other friars, [258] but is told there are millions.The second chapter of the pseudepigraphical Second Epistle of Peter [101] copies much of the content of the Epistle of Jude, [101] but omits the specifics of the example regarding Michael and Satan, with 2 Peter 2:10–11 instead mentioning only an ambiguous dispute between "Angels" and "Glories". In the Quran, Satan is apparently an angel, [186] but, in 18:50, he is described as "from the jinns". However, devotees of Santa Muerte view her as an angel of death created by God, [247] and many of them identify as Catholic. Still wrestling with the notion of retirement, Rebus attempts to distract himself by taking Quant for a meal at the Caledonian Hotel – the location of an unsolved murder.

Similar to European arts, who took traits of pagan deities to depict devils, they depicted such demons often in a similar fashion to that of Hindu deities.And ably assisted by John Wood's late night production it's now firmly esconced in the hearts of chillers, smokers and music lovers the world over. The film version of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby established made Satanic themes a staple of mainstream horror fiction. An example is the Satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980s—beginning with the memoir Michelle Remembers—which depicted Satanism as a vast conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child abuse and human sacrifice. His mother Phyllis worked as a cook and babysitter on the Woodbine Plantation, which was 15 miles south of Yazoo City. In the Middle Ages, Satan played a minimal role in Christian theology and was used as a comic relief figure in mystery plays.