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    Devils - Their Origins and History
    Devils - Their Origins and History
    Devils - Their Origins and History
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    Devils - Their Origins and History

    By J. Charles Wall

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    A broadranging look at the "history and mystery of the devil and the forms he takes. The origin, names, legends and proverbs are all dealt with, liberally illustrated with a large number of drawings clearly showing the devil as he has been visualised throughout the centuries." -Print ed.

    James Charles Wall (AKA J. Charles Wall, J. C. Wall) (1860–1943) was a British ecclesiologist, historian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the late 19th and early 20th century. He wrote many books, mainly on Church history, and was an early contributor to the Victoria History of the Counties of England project. He was born in Shoreditch on 15 July 1860 to James Wall and Mary Wall née Williams. He attended Westminster School and New College, Oxford.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBraunfell Books
    Release dateFeb 6, 2023
    ISBN9781805230830
    Devils - Their Origins and History
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    J. Charles Wall

    James Charles Wall (AKA J. Charles Wall, J. C. Wall) (1860–1943) was a British ecclesiologist, historian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the late 19th and early 20th century. He wrote many books, mainly on Church history, and was an early contributor to the Victoria History of the Counties of England project. He was born in Shoreditch on 15 July 1860 to James Wall and Mary Wall née Williams. He attended Westminster School and New College, Oxford.

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      Devils - Their Origins and History - J. Charles Wall

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      © Braunfell Books 2023, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 4

      PREFACE 6

      DEVILS 7

      NAMES OF DEVILS 17

      THE MARSHALLING OF DEVILS 23

      DEVILS, DEVILESSES, AND LITTLE DEVILS 23

      CHRISTIAN DEVILS 26

      ORIGIN OF THE DEVIL 28

      HELL 35

      THE DEVIL IN ART 50

      LEGENDS 71

      PROVERBS 91

      EXORCISM 99

      DEVILS

      BY

      J. CHARLES WALL

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      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE DEVIL. From a photograph

      ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL. Bodleian Library

      ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL Luttrell Psalter

      JAPANESE DEVIL

      THE ALEWIFE’S END

      LINCOLN DEVIL

      THE BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE. French

      TRINITY OF EVIL

      LUCIFER’S ARGUMENT WITH THE DEITY

      LUCIFER

      EXPULSION OF LUCIFER

      THE DEVIL AS A CROWNED SERAPH

      THE DEVIL’S MESSENGER SENT FORTH TO TEMPT EVE

      SAXON LIMBUS

      THE RETURN OF THE DEVIL’S EMISSARY

      THE HARROWING OF HELL

      HELL

      SEALS OF LUCIFER

      A SERPENT BEFORE THE CURSE

      THE CURSING OF THE SERPENT

      VATICAN BRONZE

      THE TEMPTATION

      THE BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE. English

      BLACK DEVILS

      THE DEVIL CONSUMING SINNERS

      A DEVIL

      DEVILS FROM GIOTTO’S FRESCO

      DEVILS WITH BATS’ WINGS

      BEAKED DEVILS

      ST. PAPHNUTIUS TEMPTED BY A BEAUTIFUL DEVIL

      THE DEVIL IN GUISE OF A WOMAN TEMPTING ST. MARS

      A DEVIL STRANGLING ONE OF THE DAMNED

      ST. MICHAEL WEIGHING SOULS

      THE DEVIL SEIZES THE SOUL OF THE IMPENITENT THIEF

      THE DEVIL AND THE DANEGELT TAX

      THE DEVIL’S BRIDGE

      PONT Y MYNACH, CARDIGANSHIRE

      THE DEVIL WITH A STITCH IN HIS SIDE

      THE DEVIL’S FOOTPRINT

      THE DEVIL FRUSTRATED

      THE PAPAL DEVIL

      THE DEVIL’S BAGPIPES

      THE DEVIL OF HERESY

      AARON, SON OF THE DEVIL

      ST. MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON

      EXORCISM

      ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

      PREFACE

      THE mosaic here displayed makes but a very imperfect picture of a widely distributed subject; yet, like many an old tessellated cartoon, there may be found sufficient remains to indicate the original design conceived in the minds of men of past generations.

      Many of these tesseræ have been brought from distant countries, some aglow with a richness which time has not dimmed, while others are dull and colourless; some of them are as of a transparent metal through which intense conviction may be seen, and others as of an opaque substance, wherewith the work yields but questionable credit to the manipulator.

      The use of the two kinds of mediums seldom blend in the mosaic art, although the result may be instructive in revealing the methods adopted by different peoples; so, in the following combination, harmony must not be looked for where the many independent atoms from Byzantine, Teutonic, and Norse ateliers unite to form an imperfect whole. But each method has its individual sphere; thus, the glass mosaics on wall and dome spiritualise the subject, while the cubes of clay are fittingly employed in a debased position to be trodden beneath the foot. Even so have they been respectively employed in the abbey church of St. Peter, at Westminster. The brilliant work of Peter, the Roman, is in the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, trumpeting forth the triumph of virtue over vice; while the pavement of Abbot Ware, which clothes the floor of that sanctuary, is indicative of the innumerable and multi-coloured paths of allurements to be overstepped before arriving at the goal. So may devils be elevated before the eye not only as a luminous lesson to mankind, but as the instigators of evil, to be trodden underfoot.

      Yet even this kaleidoscope of fragments, mellowed by centuries of time, is rudely invaded by the addition of modern tesseræ, more crude than all the rest by reason of the absence of belief or purpose, which is naught else than diabolical vulgarity, the product of a generation which would scorn to be considered other than intellectual and cultured.

      I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. H. S. King for various useful suggestions, and for kindly reading these sheets for the press.

      J. C. W.

      DEVILS

      IN things ecclesiastical and secular, political and social, mention is made of the Devil in some way or another. In the stables and on the racecourse, in the kennels and at the meet, in the stubble and on the moor. Nowhere can we turn but we hear that Archfiend’s name coupled with every conceivable object, and invoked over every inconceivable theory. In the crowded streets of a great town it assails the ear at every turn. The Devil is adjured not only at the coster’s stall but at the dinner-table, sometimes even before the ladies have left the sterner sex to the enjoyment of nicotine; while the drawing-room, the ballroom, and the boudoir are not altogether innocent of the same.

      Who the Devil, Where the Devil, What the Devil have become such common expressions among Englishmen, in whatever station of life they may move, that it is but a natural sequence to conclude that the entire nation must be familiar with his Satanic Highness.

      With the ever-recurring invocation of infernal imps, there would appear to be an endeavour to abolish the idea of evil as attributable to the Devil. That such expressions befoul the lips never occur to the unthinking devotees of such a debased cult.

      How eagerly is the Devil welcomed under a beautiful form or a fascinating presence, a silvery tongue or a gilded offer of assistance; yet he is the same as would be loathed if presented to the gaze as the incarnation of filth, ugliness, wickedness, or fraud.

      All peoples, more or less, find him a useful adjunct in giving pregnancy and weight to their sayings; but the English have surpassed all others verbally though not in literature, and in the eyes of foreigners have gained a character of intense demoniacal fraternity.

      "Smooth Devils, Homed Devils,

      Sullen Devils, Playful Devils,

      Shorn Devils, Hairy Devils,

      Bushy Devils, Cursed Devils,

      Foolish Devils,

      Devils, Devilesses, and Young Devils,

      All the progeny of devildom,

      Come from your devilish tricks

      Quicker than light.

      Satan. What do you want with all the devils—

      To teach you devilry herein?

      Say what the devil is the matter,

      And what the devil you would have."

      This was Lucifer’s allocution to the infernal host in the Passion of St. Quentin, a miracle play performed in the collegiate church of St. Quentin, in France, about the middle of the fourteenth century.

      To this mediæval list others may be added which are constantly appearing in civilised countries, such as: Blue Devils, White Devils, Byzantine Devils, Gothic Devils, Renaissance Devils.

      Archaeological, Theological, and Zoological, Real Devils, Mythical Devils, Beautiful and Ugly, Funny and Grim.

      What a number of adjectives he knows, mamma, whispered a little girl during a sermon by a cathedral dignitary in the Capital of Capitals.

      Adjectives certainly are expressive as well as explanatory, and in the literature dealing with this subject in the Middle Ages they were used with no sparing hand. If the Devil always appeared in the same guise there would be no necessity for so liberal a use of them; but he is never the same to any two individuals, nor ever twice the same to any one person.

      Devils form a large family of every age and nationality. The Talmudists asserted that they numbered 7,405,926. How they arrived at these numbers it is impossible to say; yet, after all, these were but few compared with the same learned authorities’ numbering of the angels who guarded souls from the attacks of the seven and odd millions; they run into quadrillions, a matter of sixteen figures.

      Rabbin Rav Huna tells us that every human being has one thousand devils on the left side and ten thousand on the right. If such be the case, the Talmudists were somewhat out in their reckoning. But that is going into greater detail than need be; it is quite sufficient to rest content with the assumption that there are plenty of them around, and tempting the

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