Richalmus (Richalm von Schöntal or Schönthal) (died 1219) was a German

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, known for his work of monastic life, notorious for its demonology, the ''Liber Revelationum'', printed much later in the sixteenth century. Richalmus claimed it to be untrue that every person is haunted by one demon only. On the contrary, demons will crowd like a thick wall around any human, and when Richalmus closed his eyes, he would often see tiny demons flying around both himself and others, "thick as

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in a ray of sun".Jørgen Hansen: ''Englene og al deres væsen'' (p. 365), edited by Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1996,

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* 1219 deaths German Cistercians Year of birth unknown {{Christianity-bio-stub