Demons and Devils
Infernal beings, tempters and entities explicitly classified as demons within religious, folkloric or occult systems.
Daemonology and Occult Studies
Occult Entities Classification
Explore demons, spirits, underworld beings, supernatural creatures, ritual entities and liminal intelligences across religious, mythological, folkloric and occult traditions.
The Classification Index
Eighteen paths through the archive
Entities may appear in more than one classification when the historical record or a documented tradition supports that relationship.
Infernal and Adversarial
Fallen and Adversarial Angels
Rebellious angels, Watchers, celestial adversaries and beings believed to have fallen from divine order.
Grimoire and Ceremonial-Magic Spirits
Named spirits catalogued in Goetic, planetary, Enochian, Olympic and ceremonial systems.
Qliphothic and Shadow Entities
Beings associated with the Qliphoth, adverse forces, spiritual shells and later occult shadow systems.
Deities Later Demonized
Gods and sacred beings from earlier religions later reinterpreted as demons by competing traditions.
Death, Affliction and Predation
Underworld Beings and Death Spirits
Rulers, guardians and inhabitants of underworlds, afterlives and realms of the dead.
Ghosts, Revenants and the Restless Dead
Human spirits believed to remain among the living through vengeance, trauma or unfinished business.
Vampiric and Life-Draining Entities
Beings believed to consume blood, breath, vitality, dreams, energy or life force.
Possessing and Afflicting Spirits
Entities associated with possession, obsession, nightmares, illness or spiritual oppression.
Mythic, Natural and Transformative
Jinn, Divs and Desert Spirits
Jinn, shayāṭīn, ifrits, marids, Persian divs and spirits of fire, wind, ruins and deserts.
Monsters, Hybrids and Primordial Creatures
Ancient serpents, dragons, giants, chimeras and beings representing chaos or primordial forces.
Witches, Shape-Shifters and Transformed Beings
Humans, spirits and supernatural beings able to transform, imitate or assume other forms.
Fairies, Yōkai and Trickster Beings
Unpredictable beings that may deceive, frighten, punish, assist or interact with humans.
Nature, Land and Elemental Spirits
Beings connected with forests, mountains, rivers, seas, storms, fire, air and earth.
Domestic, Protective and Created
Household, Ancestral and Familiar Spirits
Ancestors, domestic guardians and supernatural companions connected with families, homes and individuals.
Protective and Guardian Entities
Fierce beings, spirits and guardians believed to defend people, communities, boundaries or sacred places.
Constructed Entities and Thought-Forms
Egregores, servitors, artificial elementals, tulpas and entities believed to be intentionally created.
Unclassified and Liminal Entities
Beings crossing several classifications or resisting accurate categorization as spirits, monsters, gods or demons.
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Demons and Devils
Raktabija
Hindu Shakta
Raktabija enters battle carrying a curse of abundance: every drop of blood that strikes the earth gives birth to another warrior equal to him in…
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Ravana
Hindu epic and South Asian
Ravana rules Lanka from a city of gold, master of weapons, scripture, music and terrible austerity. His ten heads signify an intellect vast enough to…
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Shumbha
Hindu Shakta
Shumbha rules after conquering the heavens and taking the treasures, weapons and stations of the gods. When he hears of the Goddess’s beauty, he does…
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Vritra
Vedic and Hindu
Vritra is the vast serpent of obstruction, the power that closes the channels of heaven and imprisons the waters behind a body stretched across the…
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Classification is context, not confinement.
Profiles are reviewed across traditions, sources and historical interpretations. Where evidence remains uncertain, the archive leaves the question open.