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What (who) is Demon - definition

PARANORMAL, OFTEN MALEVOLENT BEING PREVALENT IN RELIGION, OCCULTISM, MYTHOLOGY, AND FOLKLORE
Origin and history of the demons; Demons; Evil spirit; Demon realm; Demonic spirits; Demoness; Evil spirits; Lesser Demon; Demon Realm; Feind; Demon slaying; Evil Spirits; Mountain Demon; Demoic; Hindu demon; Demons in Islam; Demons in Judaism; Mesopotamian demon; Demons in Mesopotamia; Wicked spirit; Inner demon; Mesopotamian monsters; Shayātīn; Demon (Christianity); Evil Spirit; Demons in Manichaeism; Ancient Egyptian demons
  • [[Arzhang Div]] (The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp)
  • Black Div (The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp)
  • A demon from ''[[The Ladder of Divine Ascent]]'', written in Georgian by [[Nikrai]].
  • galla]]'' demons
  • Gate of Citadel of semnan 9. [[Rustam]] slaying the Div-e Sepid (White Div)
  • [[Div-e Sepid]], literally "white demon", the chieftain of demons from the epic Shahnameh
  • The classic [[oni]], a Japanese ogre-like creature which often has horns and often translated into English as "demon".
  • ''[[Death and the Miser]]'' (detail), a [[Hieronymus Bosch]] painting, [[National Gallery of Art]], [[Washington, D.C.]]
  • medieval]] demon from [[German folklore]]) flying over [[Wittenberg]], in a [[lithograph]] by [[Eugène Delacroix]].
  • Saint Anthony]] being assailed by demons
  • [[Medieval illumination]] from the Ottheinrich Folio depicting the [[exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac]] by Jesus
  • 800–700 BCE}}, [[Louvre]]
  • Ram-headed demon. The hands probably outstretch to hold two snakes. From a royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. End of the 18th Dynasty, around 1325 BCE
  • Rostam carried by [[Akvan Div]] (cropped)
  • The Army of Super Creatures – from The Saugandhika Parinaya Manuscript (1821 CE)

demon         
n.
1.
Devil, fiend, evil spirit, goblin.
2.
Spirit, genius, guardian spirit, tutelary deity.
demon         
Person who is an absolute legend.
Larry. I got us front row tickets for the concert.Harry. You demon.
demon         
1. <operating system> (Often used equivalently to daemon, especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic). A program or part of a program which is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. At MIT they use "demon" for part of a program and "daemon" for an operating system process. Demons (parts of programs) are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate (which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the main program could continue with whatever its primary task was. This is similar to the triggers used in {relational databases}. The use of this term may derive from "Maxwell's Demons" - minute beings which can reverse the normal flow of heat from a hot body to a cold body by only allowing fast moving molecules to go from the cold body to the hot one and slow molecules from hot to cold. The solution to this apparent thermodynamic paradox is that the demons would require an external supply of energy to do their work and it is only in the absence of such a supply that heat must necessarily flow from hot to cold. Walt Bunch believes the term comes from the demons in Oliver Selfridge's paper "Pandemonium", MIT 1958, which was named after the capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost". Selfridge likened neural cells firing in response to input patterns to the chaos of millions of demons shrieking in Pandemonium. 2. <company> Demon Internet Ltd. 3. A program generator for differential equation problems. [N.W. Bennett, Australian AEC Research Establishment, AAEC/E142, Aug 1965]. [Jargon File] (1998-09-04)

Wikipedia

Demon

A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, and television series.

Belief in demons probably goes back to the Paleolithic age, stemming from humanity's fear of the unknown, the strange and the horrific. In ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic religions, including early Judaism and ancient-medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism. Large portions of Jewish demonology, a key influence on Christianity and Islam, originated from a later form of Zoroastrianism, and was transferred to Judaism during the Persian era.

Demons may or may not also be considered to be devils: minions of the Devil. In many traditions, demons are independent operators, with different demons causing different types of evils (destructive natural phenomena, specific diseases, etc.). In religions featuring a principal Devil (e.g. Satan) locked in an eternal struggle with God, demons are often also thought to be subordinates of the principal Devil. As lesser spirits doing the Devil's work, they have additional duties— causing humans to have sinful thoughts and tempting humans to commit sinful actions.

The original Ancient Greek word daimōn (δαίμων) did not carry negative connotations, as it denotes a spirit or divine power. The Greek conception of a daimōn notably appears in the philosophical works of Plato, where it describes the divine inspiration of Socrates.

In Christianity, morally ambivalent daimōn were replaced by demons, forces of evil only striving for corruption. Such demons are not the Greek intermediary spirits, but hostile entities, already known in Iranian beliefs.

In Western occultism and Renaissance magic, which grew out of an amalgamation of Greco-Roman magic, Jewish Aggadah and Christian demonology, a demon is believed to be a spiritual entity that may be conjured and controlled.

Belief in demons remains an important part of many modern religions and occultist traditions. Demons are still feared largely due to their alleged power to possess living creatures. In the contemporary Western occultist tradition (perhaps epitomized by the work of Aleister Crowley), a demon (such as Choronzon, which is Crowley's interpretation of the so-called "Demon of the Abyss") is a useful metaphor for certain inner psychological processes (inner demons), though some may also regard it as an objectively real phenomenon.

Examples of use of Demon
1. A fresh demon is being presented to the US voter.
2. Some tiny inner demon with nobody‘s best interests at heart.
3. Tesco, after all, is demon king of the margin shrinkers.
4. She was the subject of a 2001 film, "Demon of The Derby." ___ William R.
5. Demon argued the case could affect the entire ethos of free speech on the internet.