Demonology: The Study Of Demonology

Demonology is the study of demons and the belief in demons. It is related to the theory of the supernatural. The original sense of "demon", has been around since the time of Homer and was meant to mean a benevolent being. But now the word holds a connection of malevolence. Demonology began during the time of the Witch Trials. In law today demonology is also but in with the insanity defense. There are two different types of demonology Christian and Roman Catholic. Christian demonology is the study of what the bible teaches us about the devil and demons, what they are and how the attack us. This kind of demonology helps us to be aware of Satan, his minions, and their evil schemes. While Roman Catholic demonology is the study of evil, of the

He persuaded himself that Satan had told him his mother 's boyfriend had to die, and that he would have to do the killing. The boy was torn between the horror of committing murder and the clearly delusional Satanic edict. Such cases have become so frequent that sociologists have begun to write books on them. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reported that in 1988 about one boy and four girls per thousand or a total of 155,300 cases, quite a significant number were victims of sexual abuse. Another example is David Berkowits the “Son of Sam” who was one of the worst criminals in American history. David committed a series of murders in the borough of Queens that terrorized New York City and made headlines for months. Berkowits wrote a letter to the New York police in which he declared, “I am the monster Beelzebub, the great Behemuuth.” It is obviously cannot be said that had Berkowits been unaware of “Beelzebub,” that he would not have committed the crimes that he did; yet it is likely that his morbid fixation on the Devil structured his criminal behavior. By chance, he had read that a Satan-Beelzebub-Behemoth existed and he started to believe that he was its agent. Now let us go back in time to 1692 when the Salem Witch trials were being

Not long after the accusation of Sarah Good being a Witch a warrant was but out for her arrest by Constable Herrick. Sarah was then interviewed or examination as was the term back in 1692 for the first of three times of the accusation of being a Witch. Sarah had denied that she was a Witch during all three of her examinations. During the second examination she was asked that if she was not the one injuring the children than who was it. Sarah Good said that it was Sarah Osburn who was tormenting the children. As the examinations went on each woman blamed the other of using Witchcraft on the children of the village of Salem. In this particular case both Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn were burned at the stake next to an Indian women named Tituba. These were only three of the many people that were killed during the Salem Witch Trials. Many of the other people that were accused of being a witch were either dunked in water until they drowned or stretched to death or until they admitted that they were witches or had summoned the devil so that they could do harm to others or for their own