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Demonologist
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de·mon·ol·o·gy  (dm-nl-j)
n.
1. The study of demons.
2. Belief in or worship of demons.
3. A list or catalog of one's enemies: "As the years passed [the magazine's] demonology expanded to include Bolsheviks, radicals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, Government work programs or aid programs of any kind" (Maggie Nichols).

demon·o·logic (--ljk), demon·o·logi·cal (--kl) adj.
demon·olo·gist n.


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If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful.
Francoise Lavocat's essay dividing the demonologists into "realist" and "illusionist" camps is too simplistic and ultimately reductive; but it does throw a welcome light onto demonology's contribution to the emergence of modern notions of fiction.
Demonologists in the fifteenth century were already presenting extended arguments against the idea that witches were really melancholics, suggesting that the medical model already had currency.
 
 
 
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