Demonology

Branch of religious belief which deals with the active agency of evil spirits. Forms of demoniacal po e ion are common to all Christian and Pagan creeds; and sorcerers, witches, and enchantre es are common to all literatures, sacred and profane. Belief in the Familiar Spirit is scarcely yet dead in Christen dom. In England the statute of James I. enacting that all persons invoking an evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit, should be guilty of felony and suffer death, was not repealed till the reign of George Spiritualism and Theosophy are fashionable modern II. variants. Demonstration, Syllogistic proce of proof; often synonymous with certitude.