• A demon is typically regarded as being an evil supernatural being or a devil.  Demons are also found in pagan mythology where they are described as being spirits, or immaterial beings, that hold a middle place between men and deities.​​​

• Demoniac : is a human being possessed, influenced or even produced by a demon or evil spirit; generally a person whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.  The word also relates to a person who resembles or possesses the characteristics of a demon or evil spirit.

Demons are the angels that were once in Heaven, but rebelled against God and became a fallen angel (demon). 

There are many different terms of "Fallen Angels" [See Fallen Angels for more]. 



Demons feed off of fear. Thus being said, there are many reasons why a demon could pick you: 

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• If you are sick, it can sense that. 

• If you are weak, it can see that.

• If you are getting closer to God, it will try and stop that. 

• Satan tries to tempt you by bringing you down- the more sadness and solitude, the more the demons will come. [Believe me, I know.]

• Satan sends his maniacal fiends out to Earth to get more people to join his side, instead of ultimately going to Heaven, he wants everyone down in Hell with him. 

• Demons become attached to you, and will not leave- unless you get a priest to cleanse your house and have an exorcism, but even then, there is no guarantee it will leave. [See Attachments for more.]

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Demonic Possession: 

• Demonic Possession is held by many belief systems to be the control of an individual by a malevolent supernatural being.

• Descriptions of demonic possessions often include erased memories or personalities, convulsions, “fits” and fainting as if one were dying.
• Other descriptions include access to hidden knowledge (gnosis) and foreign languages (glossolalia), drastic changes in vocal intonation and facial structure, the sudden appearance of injuries (scratches, bite marks) or lesions, and superhuman strength.
• Unlike in channeling or other forms of possession, the subject has no control over the possessing entity and so it will persist until forced to leave the victim, usually through a form of exorcism.​
• Many cultures and religions contain some concept of demonic possession, but the details vary considerably.
• The oldest references to demonic possession are from the Sumerians[the Nephilim], who believed that all diseases of the body and mind were caused by "sickness demons" called gidim or gid-dim.
• The priests who practiced exorcisms in these nations were called ashipu (sorcerer) as opposed to an asu (physician) who applied bandages and salves.
• Many cuneiform tablets contain prayers to certain gods asking for protection from demons, while others ask the gods to expel the demons that have invaded their bodies.
• Shamanic cultures also believe in demon possession and shamans perform exorcisms. In these cultures, diseases are often attributed to the presence of a vengeful spirit (or loosely termed demon) in the body of the patient.
• These spirits are more often the spectres of animals or people wronged by the bearer, the exorcism rites usually consisting of respectful offerings or sacrificial offerings.
• Christianity holds that possession derives from The Devil, i.e. Satan, or one of his lessor demons. In many Christian belief systems, Satan and his demons are actually fallen angels.​

---The New Testament mentions several episodes in which Jesus drove out demons from persons, believing these to be the entities responsible for those mental and physical illnesses.

1. External physical pain caused by Satan​

2. Demonic Possession, in which Satan takes full possession of a person's body without their knowledge or consent: the victim is therefore morally blameless ​

3. Diabolical Oppression, in which there is no loss of consciousness or involuntary action, such as in the biblical Book of Job in which Job was tormented by a series of misfortunes in business, family, and health ​

4. Diabolic Obsession, which includes sudden attacks of irrationally obsessive thoughts, usually culminating in suicidal ideation, and typically influences dreams ​

5. Diabolic infestation, which affects houses, things, or animals.

“The possessing spirit in 'familiarization' is seeking to 'come and live with' the subject. If accepted, the spirit becomes the constant and continuously present companion of the possessed. The two "persons", the familiar and the possessed, remain separate and distinct. The possessed is aware of his familiar"
True diabolical or satanic possession has been characterized since the Middles Ages, in the Rituale Romanum, by the following four typical characteristics:
• manifestation of superhuman strength
• speaking in tongues or languages that the person cannot know
• the revelation of knowledge, distant or hidden, that the victim cannot know
• blasphemic rage and an aversion to holy symbols or relics

When it is said that a person is calling upon or conjuring misfortune or disease, it is due to the ancient belief that personified diseases and misfortune as evil deities, spirits or demons that could enter a human or animal body; see demon possession.

The literal view of demonization is still held by a number of Christian denominations.

In charismatic Christianity, deliverance ministries are activities carried out by individuals or groups aimed at solving problems related to demons and spirits, especially possession of the body and soul, but not the spirit as ministries.
Anderson explicitly teach that a Christian can’t have demons in their spirit because the Holy Spirit lives there, though they can have demons in their body or soul due to inner emotional wounds, sexual abuse, satanic ritual abuse; this is usually known as partial possession or demonic infestation, as opposed to outside demonic oppression which does not reside in any of the 3 parts of a person: body, soul, spirit.
---A great deal of controversy surrounds the book War on the Saints originally published in 1912 as a resource to the Christian faced with combating demon influences.

Demonic possession is not recognized as a psychiatric or medical diagnosis by either the DSM-IV or the ICD-10.

There are many psychological ailments commonly misunderstood as demonic possession, particularly dissociative identity disorder. In cases of dissociative identity disorder in which the alter personality is questioned as to its identity, 29% are reported to identify themselves as demons, but doctors see this as a mental disease called demonomania or demonopathy, a monomania in which the patient believes that he or she is possessed by one or more demons.​





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are endless amounts of demons, and it would literally take me forever to list them all, but I am going to try.
(NOTE: this list is definitely not finished, as you can see.)