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demonology
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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.
demonology
Noun
the study of demons or demonic beliefs [demon + -logy]
demonology
1. the study of demons or superstitions about demons.
2. the doctrine of demons. Also demonography. — demonologist, n. — demonologic, demonological, adj.
See also: Demons
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Werewolves were rare in fifteenth-century demonologies and trials" and the Malleus has "nothing to say about them" (Monter, 151).
The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien [*] by SULLIVAN, MARGARET A. / Renaissance Quarterly
More significantly, anti-scientific views arise from and reinforce a wider anti-rational mood which has emerged even among academics, accompanied by the growth of post-modernist invisible colleges and the threat to the search for inter-personal knowledge posed by the demonologies of the politically correct.
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Professor Williams begins with Jean d'Arras's prose history of the fairy nymph Melusine (1393) and moves from there to the magical works of Paracelsus and the demonologies of Heinrich Kramer, Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin (as translated into German by Johann Fischart), and Pierre de Lancre.
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century ... by Levack, Brian P. / Renaissance Quarterly
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