demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, ani ...
is a malevolent supernatural being in religion, occultism, mythology, folklore, and fiction.
Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:
Daemon
Daimon or Daemon (Ancient Greek: , "god", "godlike", "power", "fate") originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
The word ...
, a character in the TV series ''ReBoot''
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Daemon Blackfyre
''Tales of Dunk and Egg'' is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, set in the world of his ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' novels. They follow the adventures of "Dunk" (the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall) ...
, a character in George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series
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Demons (Shannara)
''Shannara'' is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with ''The Sword of Shannara'' in 1977 and concluding with ''The Last Druid'' which was released in October 2020; there is also a prequel, ''First King of Shann ...
, characters in Shannara fantasy novels
* Demon or Dimension traveler, a class of characters in the ''
MythAdventures
''MythAdventures'' or ''Myth Adventures'' is a fantasy series created by Robert Asprin, Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books. After his death i ...
'' series
* Characters in the ''
Artemis Fowl
''The Fowl Adventures'' is a series of eleven fantasy novels written by Irish people, Irish author Eoin Colfer revolving around various members of the Fowl family. The first cycle, ''Artemis Fowl'', follows Elf (Artemis Fowl), elf LEP Reconna ...
'' series
* Characters which appear in ''
The Demonata
''The Demonata'' is a young adult horror/fantasy series by author Darren Shan. It deals with the world of demons. The series is told by three different protagonists: Grubbs Grady, Kernel Fleck, and Bec MacConn. The series is notable for its e ...
Etrigan the Demon
Etrigan the Demon is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jack Kirby, Etrigan is a demon from Hell who, despite his violent tendencies, usually finds himself allied with the forces of good, mainly bec ...
Toshio Matsumoto
(25 March 1932 – 12 April 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist.
Biography
Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. His first short was '' Ginrin'', which he made in 1 ...
* ''Demon'' (comics), a comic by Jason Shiga
* ''The Demon'', a DC Comics series starring
Etrigan the Demon
Etrigan the Demon is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jack Kirby, Etrigan is a demon from Hell who, despite his violent tendencies, usually finds himself allied with the forces of good, mainly bec ...
Envelopes
An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin, flat material. It is designed to contain a flat object, such as a letter or card.
Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus, a shor ...
* ''Demons'', a 2020 album by
Nathan Cavaleri
Nathan Cavaleri (born 18 June 1982) is an Australian blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and a former child actor. He issued two albums as a solo artist, ''Jammin' with the Cats'' (1993) and '' Nathan'' (1994). He has been a member of v ...
Ember to Inferno
''Ember to Inferno'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium. It was released on October 14, 2003, through Lifeforce Records and was produced by Jason Suecof and the band themselves.
Background
Trivium formed in 1999 with ...
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* "Demon" (2008), by KYPCK, on album '' Cherno''
* "Demons" (2008), by Avenged Sevenfold, on album '' Diamonds in the Rough''
* "Demons" (2011), by
Fenech-Soler
Fenech-Soler were an English electropop band from King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England, that formed in 2006 and consists of two members: Ross Duffy and Ben Duffy. Founding members Daniel Fenech-Soler and Andrew Lindsay left the band in 2016 ...
* "Demons" (2013), by The Wanted, on album ''
Word of Mouth
Word of mouth, or ''viva voce'', is the passing of information from person to person using oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day. Storytelling is a common form of word-of-mouth communication where one pe ...
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* "Demons" (2018), by Lil Wayne, on album ''
Tha Carter V
''Tha Carter V'' is the twelfth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released on September 28, 2018, by Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records. The album's features include Swizz Beatz, Kendrick Lamar, Sosamann, Lil Wayne's d ...
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* "Demons" (stylized in lowercase) (2019), by Kim Petras, on the album ''
Turn Off the Light
"Turn Off the Light" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado from her debut studio album, ''Whoa, Nelly!'' (2000). Written by Furtado, and produced by Gerald Eaton, Brian West, and Furtado, the song was released as the album's se ...
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* "Demons" (2019), by Hayley Kiyoko, on album '' I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit''
* "Demons" (2020), by Drake, on album ''
Dark Lane Demo Tapes
''Dark Lane Demo Tapes'' is a mixtape by Canadian rapper and singer Drake. The mixtape is a compilation of songs that were released on SoundCloud or leaked on the internet, as well as new songs, and is considered a "warm-up" to Drake's sixth stu ...
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Other uses in music
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Daemon (band)
The Hellacopters are a Swedish rock band, active between 1994 and 2008 and again since 2016. The band was formed by vocalist and guitarist Nicke Andersson, guitarist Dregen, bassist Kenny Håkansson and drummer Robban Eriksson, later keyboard ...
, co-founded by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters
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Demon (band)
Demon is an English heavy metal band, formed in 1979 by vocalist Dave Hill and guitarist Mal Spooner, both hailing from Leek, Staffordshire. The band is considered important to the new wave of British heavy metal movement.
History
Early y ...
, an English metal band formed in 1979
* Demons (band), a punk band from Sweden
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Demon Kakka
, previously known as , is a Japanese musician, songwriter, entertainer, journalist, sumo commentator, actor and voice actor. He first gained fame in the 1980s as vocalist of the heavy metal band Seikima-II, before starting a solo career in ...
, formerly known as Demon Kogure, a Japanese musician
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Demon FM
DemonFM is a student radio station based at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. The station broadcasts online during term time. It was established in 1995 by the Communications Officer of the time, Rob Martin. The first licensed broad ...
, a community radio station in Leicestershire
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Demon Music Group
Demon Music Group (DMG) is a record company owned by BBC Studios that is mainly concerned with back-catalogue rights and re-issuing recordings as compilations on physical media (CDs and vinyl) via supermarkets and specialist stores.
History
DM ...
, a British record label
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Daemon Records
Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American alto singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemo ...
The Dæmons
''The Dæmons'' is the fifth and final serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in five weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 May to 19 June 1971.
In the serial, the alien ...
Daemon (computing)
In computer multitasking, multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon ( or ) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Traditionally, the process names of a ...
, a background process
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Daemon Tools
DAEMON Tools is a virtual drive and optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
Overview
DAEMON tools was originally a successor of ''Generic SafeDisc emulator'' and incorporated all of its features. The program claims t ...
, a disk image emulator
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Daemontools
daemontools is a process supervision toolkit written by Daniel J. Bernstein as an alternative to other system initialization and process supervision tools, such as Init
In Unix-based computer operating systems, init (short for ''initiali ...
, a collection of free tools for managing Unix services
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Demon Internet
Demon Internet was a British Internet service provider, initially an independent business, later operating as a brand of Vodafone. It was List of UK ISPs by age, one of the UK's earliest ISPs, offering dial-up Internet access services from 1 June ...
, an Internet service provider
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BSD Daemon
The BSD Daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems. The BSD Daemon is named after '' software daemons'', a class of long-running computer programs in Unix-like operating systems—which, through a play on words, tak ...
, a mascot for the BSD operating system
Religion, philosophy and mythology
Religion
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Unclean spirit
In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering of Greek ''pneuma akatharton'' (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural ''pneumata akatharta'' (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in ...
, an agent of a demonic possession
Philosophy
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Demon (thought experiment)
In thought experiments, philosophers and scientists occasionally imagine entities with special abilities as a way to pose tough intellectual challenges or highlight apparent paradoxes. Examples include:
* Descartes’ malicious demon – Cartesi ...
, a class of hypotheses
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Laplace's demon
In the history of science, Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows the precise location and momentu ...
(1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Maxwell's demon
Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment that would hypothetically violate the second law of thermodynamics. It was proposed by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867. In his first letter Maxwell called the demon a "finite being", while the ' ...
, a concept by James Clerk Maxwell concerning the statistics of Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Evil demon
The evil demon, also known as Descartes' demon, malicious demon and evil genius, is an epistemological concept that features prominently in Cartesian philosophy. In the first of his 1641 ''Meditations on First Philosophy'', Descartes imagines ...
, a philosophical concept originating with René Descartes
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Darwinian Demon A Darwinian Demon is a hypothetical organism that would result if there were no biological constraints on evolution. Such an organism would maximize all aspects of fitness simultaneously and would exist if there were no limitations from available ...
, a hypothetical organism resulting from absence of biological constraints on evolution
Mythology
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Daemon (classical mythology)
Daimon or Daemon (Ancient Greek: , "god", "godlike", "power", "fate") originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
The wo ...
, a good or benevolent nature spirit in classical Greek mythology
People
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Demon (musician)
Jérémie Mondon, known by his stage name Demon, is a French electronic music producer, born in 1977 in Paris. His music comes under the genre known as French touch.
Music career
The start of Demon's career was particularly influenced by the ...
(born 1977), French electronic musician
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Blue Demon
Alejandro Muñoz Moreno (April 24, 1922 – December 16, 2000), better known by the ring name Blue Demon (''Demonio Azul'' in Spanish), was a Mexican film actor and ''luchador enmascarado'' (Spanish for masked professional wrestler). Blue Dem ...
(born 1922), a professional wrestler and actor
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Finn Bálor
Fergal Devitt (born 25 July 1981) is an Irish professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Finn Bálor (), and is a member of The Judgment Day.
Devitt is widely known for his ten ...
(born 1981), in NXT and WWE
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Kane (wrestler)
Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967), better known by the ring name Kane is an American politician and professional wrestler. Jacobs has been signed to WWE since 1995 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in WWE Hall of Fame (2021), ...
(born 1967), wrestler for WWE and WWF
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Alex de Minaur
Alex de Minaur ( ; es, Álex de Miñaur Román, ; born 17 February 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 15 on 28 June 2021 and a doubles ranking of No. 58 on 12 October 2020.
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(born 1999), Australian tennis player nicknamed "Demon"
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Dale Torborg
Dale Christian Torborg (born October 24, 1971) is an American baseball trainer and professional wrestler. In wrestling, he is best known for portraying the Kiss themed character, The Demon. He is the son of former Major League Baseball manager Je ...
(born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name "The Demon"
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Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; he, חיים ויץ, ; born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the hard rock band he co-founded with Paul ...
(born 1948), vocalist and bassist for the rock band Kiss, whose stage persona is "the Demon"
Algol
ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ...
, a star known colloquially as "the demon star"
Sports
Basketball
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DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball
The DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball program is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball program of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The team competes in the Big East Conference.
The Blue Demons play home games at Wintrust ...
, Chicago, Illinois
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Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represents Wake Forest University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Wake Forest made the Final Four in 1962 and through the years, the ...
, North Carolina
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Northwestern State Demons basketball
The Northwestern State Demons basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States. The team currently competes in the Southland Conference and is coached by Corey G ...
, Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Northwestern State Lady Demons basketball
The Northwestern State Lady Demons basketball team is the women's basketball team that represents Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The team currently competes in the Southland Conference
The Southland Conference, abb ...
, Natchitoches, Louisiana
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UCC Demons
UCC Demons are an Irish basketball team based in Cork. The team competes in the Super League and plays its home games at Mardyke Arena. The team is a division of Blue Demons Basketball Club and is directly associated with the University College ...
, Irish basketball team
Football and rugby
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Cardiff Demons
The Cardiff Demons RLFC name has been used multiple times over the years. Firstly for a now-defunct men's rugby league side, and subsequently for a women's rugby league side who began in 2021.
The men's sids played out of St. Peters RFC in the ...
, a Welsh rugby league team
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Casey Demons
The Casey Football Club, nicknamed the "Demons" and formerly the "Scorpions", is an Australian rules football club based in Cranbourne East, Victoria. The club, which was known until 2005 as the Springvale Football Club and the Casey Scorpions ( ...
, an Australian rules football team
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Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, ...
, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons
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Northwestern State Demons football
The Northwestern State Demons football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Northwestern State University located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (F ...
, Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Perth Football Club
The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
Representing the south-east area of the Perth metropol ...
, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons
Other
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Canfield (solitaire)
Canfield (US) or Demon (UK) is a patience or solitaire card game with a very low probability of winning. It is an English game first called Demon Patience and described as "the best game for one pack that has yet been invented". It was populari ...
or Demon, a solitaire/patience card game
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Dæmonen
Dæmonen is a floorless steel roller coaster at the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it reaches a height of , is long, and reaches a maximum speed of . The roller coaster features a v ...
, a roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens
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Demon (roller coaster)
Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Both coasters opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century, when each Great America park was owned by Mar ...
, at Six Flags Great America and California's Great America
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McDonnell F3H Demon
The McDonnell F3H Demon is a subsonic swept-wing United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. The successor to the F2H Banshee, the Demon was originally designed to use the Westinghouse J40 engine, but had to be redesigned to accept ...
, a United States Navy fighter aircraft
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Hawker Demon
The Hawker Hart is a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft that saw service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was designed during the 1920s by Sydney Camm and manufactured by Hawker Aircraft. The Hart was a prominent British aircra ...
, a Royal Air Force biplane
* ''Demons'' (board game), a 1979 fantasy game
* Demon bat, common name for the
Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat
Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat (''Murina beelzebub''), also Beelzebub bat or demon bat, is a species in the vesper bat family Vespertilionidae, found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, specifically the Quảng Trị and Gia Lai province ...
* Demon butterflies, several species of the butterfly tribe
Ancistroidini
The Ancistroidini are a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies. They are often blackish in base color; several of the genera contain the species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonom ...
* Demon owl, common name for the
barn owl
The barn owl (''Tyto alba'') is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, being found almost everywhere except for the polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalaya ...
* Dodge Demon, a high-performance variant of the
Dodge Dart
Dodge Dart is a line of automobiles marketed by Dodge from the 1959 to 1976 model years in North America, with production extended to later years in various other markets.
The Dart name originally appeared on a 1956 Chrysler show car featuring ...
and
Dodge Challenger
The Dodge Challenger is the name of three different generations of automobiles (two of those being pony cars) produced by American automobile manufacturer Dodge. However, the first use of the Challenger name by Dodge was in 1959 for marketing a ...
automobiles
See also
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Daimon (disambiguation)
Daimon (δαίμων) is an Ancient Greek word referring to lesser supernatural beings, including minor gods and the spirits of dead heroes.
Daimon may also refer to:
* Daimon (Head Chief) (died 1930), Head Chief of Nauru during the 1920s
*Daimo ...
Demon (comics)
''Demon'' is an American supernatural action comic by Jason Shiga. The comic, which follows a man who apparently cannot die, was self-published from 2014 to 2016 as a mini-comic and webcomic, then released as a four-volume 720-page graphic nove ...
Devil (disambiguation)
A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in many and various cultures and religious traditions.
Devil or Devils may also refer to:
* Satan
* Devil in Christianity
* Demon
* Folk devil
Art, entertainment, and media
Film and ...