Demon
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 2 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Cross-religion reference entry on demons — superhuman, typically malevolent intermediary beings — across the Abrahamic, Mesopotamian, Zoroastrian, Greco-Roman, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, plus the documented modern harms tied to literal-demon belief (deliverance abuse, exorcism deaths).
How this source is used on the map
Default reference for the demons claim; pair with the existing wiki-devil entry for the personalised cosmic adversary.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
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Companion to the exorcism entry; gives the broader anthropological / psychiatric framing of the underlying experience.
Direct evidence for the harm-risk side of the magic / witchcraft claim; cited routinely in the historical-harm bullet.