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The incantation literature is quite extensive among the Sumerians as well as the Babylonians. Sumerian
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...them in their writings. Haunted castles and mansions are common in gothic literature such as Dracula.
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"This name is half Hebrew and half Latin. Asmodeus is often mentioned in the literature of demonology. The name can also be translated as 'The one adorned with fir
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'''Landvættir''' (land spirits) are mythical creatures in old Icelandic literature and stories. They are chthonic guardians of specific grounds, such as wild
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...u or the bizarre ushi-oni that terrorized Negoro also appear in famous old literature such as the Sei Shonagon's tenth-century diary ''The Pillow Book'', and in
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...ts, such as Rosicrucianism, continued to speak of sylphs in their hermetic literature.
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...rm that was used to describe riches, avarice, and worldly gain in Biblical literature. It was personified as a false god in the New Testament. The term is often
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'''Mastema''' is the name of an arch-demon who first appears in the literature of Israel's Second Temple Period and has gradually become an apocalyptic na
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