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45 unusual facts about satan


A Maggot

Rebecca's initial tale, retold by Jones, is that he there performed a satanic ritual, and Rebecca herself was raped by Satan and forced to view a panorama of human suffering and cruelty.

Accuser

Satan, whose name means "accuser" (or "adversary") in Hebrew

And Your Bird Can Sing

Jack Black used its opening riff for inspiration in a fight against Satan at each show of the Tenacious D 2006-2007 Tour.

Andy Hamilton

Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game.

Arma Christi

They are seen as arms in the sense of heraldry, and also as the weapons Christ used to achieve his conquest over Satan; the prime member, the Cross, had been introduced to Christian art in the 4th century as the crux invicta, a symbol of victory.

Ascetical theology

Christianity does not give a complete accounting of the devil, known as Satan, but recognizes that he attempts to lure us from our goal of union with God.

Bal des Ardents

In the early 15th century, ritual burning of evil, demonic, or Satanic forces was not uncommon as shown by the Duke of Orléans' later persecution of the king's physician Jehan de Bar, who was burned to death after confessing, under torture, to practicing sorcery.

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth (Milton Berle), and an angelic 'Presence' (George Jessel) who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life.

Ching Lau Lauro

Our contemporaries in Leeds, York, Manchester and other places, have been superlative in their praises of Ching, and although his name would intimate that he is from the Celestial Empire, several have not scrupled to ascribe to him rather too near an affinity with the prince of darkness.

Crazy as Hell

Crazy as Hell, released in 2002 (New York and L.A. only), is a horror suspense film that is based on the 1982 novel by Jeremy Leven and follows Dr. Ty Adams (played by Michael Beach), an aggressive and overconfident psychiatrist who is producing a documentary film about a nearby state-run mental hospital.

Dan the Dude

Dan Mulcahy (fl. c. 1905-15), known by the psudonyms of Louis Harris and Dan the Dude, was a New York criminal and the longtime owner of the Stag Cafe at 28 West 28th Street, in the vice district of Satan's Circus.

Danielle Colby-Cushman

Colby-Cushman decided she wanted to do burlesque when, while living in Chicago with her family, she attended a burlesque performance starring comedienne Margaret Cho and legendary dancer Satan's Angel.

Diabo

If maybe, for some reason, you are looking for the bible character who is said the archenemy of God, see Devil or Satan.

Egil Hegerberg

Afterward, in his thanking speech, Hegerberg said, "Where is Satan when you need him the most?".

Holy water in Eastern Christianity

:That Satan may speedily be crushed under our feet, and that every evil counsel directed against us may be brought to naught, let us pray to the Lord.

Jeremy Leven

Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002.

Johannes Junius

He took the witch-name of Krix and was provided with a familiar named Füchsin ("Vixen"), at which point several local townsfolk revealed themselves as similarly allied with Satan and congratulated him.

Letter to King Henry II

a new Golden Age of Saturn, the binding of Satan for a thousand years, and universal peace and harmony, with the Church finally triumphant

Lucas Bros. Moving Co.

Upon raising $150.00 to get it back by installing an air conditioner (which is said to be cursed by Satan) in their neighbor Natasha's window, they end up having to venture through their apartment after it was frozen by the cursed air conditioner and must make it to the furnace so that they can get out and save their moving van before it is compacted.

Mahmoud Aldebe

In an article published in Expressen on 3 October 2005, Swedish Imam and Muslim convert Abd al Haqq Kielan wrote that Aldebe had approached him and said to him that he was "a Jew who has converted to Islam to destroy for the Muslims" and that he had also called him "Shayṭān" (Satan).

Mephistopheles

Mephisto is also featured as the lead antagonist in Goethe's Faust and in the unpublished scenarios for the Walpurgis night, he and Satan appear as two separate characters.

Although Mephistopheles appears to Faustus as a devil — a worker for Satan — critics claim that he does not search for men to corrupt but comes to serve and ultimately collect the souls of those who are already damned.

Moez Masoud

The show was named "Khatawat Al-Shaitan" (Steps of Satan), and was predicted to be an exceptional success therefore was requested by many channels to broadcast, however, the rights went to five channels such as Abu Dhabi Al Oula, Al Emirat, CBC, CBC+2, alongside the broadcast on Nogoom FM, considered the most popular station in Egyptian radio.

Mormon cosmology

During this pre-existence, two plans were said to have been presented, one championed by Lucifer (Satan) that would have involved loss of moral agency, and another championed by God the Father.

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan.

The double mention of "papé" together with "Satan" (here interpreted as the fallen angel Satan) and the break (the comma) in the hendecasyllable, gives it a tone of a prayer or an invocation to Satan (although there is no verb traceable).

Satan's Harvest

Satan's Harvest is a 1970 South African film directed by George Montgomery who also starred in the film with Tippi Hedren.

Satan's Horns

It served as the promotional song and video to the Taiwanese release of the film Freddy vs. Jason.

Satan's Little Helpers

Satan's Little Helpers features the bands trademark theme of Satanism, sex and drugs the lyrical concept also focuses on the crimes of infamous murderers, such as Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jack The Ripper, and Sean Sellers.

Satan's Mistress

The film was released the same year as the similarly themed The Entity, differing in that the sex in Satan's Mistress is consensual.

It is about a sexually frustrated housewife, Lisa (played by actress Lana Wood), who having been distanced from her husband (Don Galloway as Carl) begins having nightly trysts with an apparition that gradually takes on the form of a tall, dark stranger (played by Kabir Bedi of Octopussy) who turns out to be a ghost from the other side.

Satan's Playground

Satan's Playground is a 2006 American horror film directed and written by Dante Tomaselli, starring Felissa Rose, Ellen Sandweiss, and Edwin Neal.

Satan's Triangle

The plot involves a United States Coast Guard helicopter sent to answer a distress call from inside the Bermuda Triangle.

Satan's Triangle is a 1975 TV movie set in the Bermuda Triangle and was produced by ABC.

Satan's Waitin'

Later that night, two bank robbers (named Rocky and Mugsy) try to break into the safe, but fail when they use too much nitroglycerine and end up killing themselves and Sylvester.

Summanus

and Milton, in a simile to describe Satan visiting Rome: "Just so Summanus, wrapped in a smoking whirlwind of blue flame, falls upon people and cities".

Tanacu exorcism

Father Corogeanu thought that it was not just a mental illness, but rather she was possessed by Satan.

The Brotherhood of Satan

A local coven of elderly witches have been taking the children and leading them to worship Satan in a plot to use their bodies as receptacles for their own souls.

The Grand Inquisitor

The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions that Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert.

The Great Deceiver

Satan, an embodiment of antagonism in Abrahamic beliefs

The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

Satan's Waitin' (brief snippet of Satanic bulldogs originally barking at Sylvester)

Toninho do Diabo

Antônio Aparecido Firmino (born in Jundiaí, date unknown), better known as Toninho do Diabo (Tom the Devil), is an alleged Brazilian religious, who identifies himself as a disciple of the devil, and calls itself the Ambassador of Lucifer on Earth and is therefore considered by the media as one of the greatest leaders of Brazil Satanists.

Tony Pennock

Pennock was critical of the methods of Farnborough's manager and owner, Graham Westley, and as a result was one of relatively few first choice players that did not leave Farnborough with Westley immediately after the Arsenal game.

Twilight Children

Most troubling is Michael, who regains consciousness only to attack Doc ferociously, claiming he is Satan.

Walpurga Hausmannin

She had sworn herself to Satan and written it on a contract, and the demon, called Federlin, had then taken her to the real Devil, and confirmed her contract, after which they had drunk wine, eaten roasted babies and had sex (she with Federlin).


Andrés Baiz

Satan is the first feature Baiz released in June 2007, starring Mexican actor Damián Alcázar, is based on the book by Mario Mendoza, which in turn is based on the events at the restaurant where the Pozzeto Bogota 5 December 1986, a veteran of the Vietnam War known as Campo Elias Delgado massacred several people who were on the scene after murdering his mother.

Animal Factory

Decker manages to flee to Costa Rica and Copen stays behind, after stating "This is my prison, after all" and quoting Satan from Paradise Lost by John Milton: "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

Balance puzzle

Niobe, the protagonist of Piers Anthony's novel With a Tangled Skein, must solve the twelve-coin variation of this puzzle to find her son in Hell: Satan has disguised the son to look identical to eleven other demons, and he is heavier or lighter depending on whether he is cursed to lie or able to speak truthfully.

Bathsheba

The Midrash portrays the influence of Satan bringing about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba as follows: Bathsheba was bathing, perhaps behind a screen of wickerwork.

Being a Green Mother

Orb sings a section of the Llano (the Song of Evening—also known as the Song of Love) which is meant to evoke romantic love, but Satan, surprising everyone, sings a variation of the hymn Amazing Grace—and vanishes.

Blanche Barton

A settlement was later reached in which Anton LaVey’s belongings, writings, and royalties would be split among his three children, Karla, Zeena and Satan, and that Barton would receive the “corporation known as Church of Satan.”

Blood and Gold

In Rome he meets the vampire Santino, who claims that Marius is living in sin by not serving Satan.

Christ and Satan

Actual scripture leaves the ending open with the sudden disappearance of Satan (Matthew 4:1-11), but Christ and Satan takes the more fictional and epic approach with a victory for Christ over Satan—adding to what scripture seems to have left to interpretation.

Dominic Hailstone

In 2007 he was commissioned by Warp X to write and direct Say You Love Satan, co-written with Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Phil Nichol.

Dylan Hudecki

He has also recorded a solo cover of Rheostatics' "Satan is the Whistler" for the 2007 Rheostatics tribute album The Secret Sessions.

Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Twelve articles, adopted in 1969, are presented by the fellowship as their statement of faith on the following issues - the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Man, Salvation, the Church, the Christian life, Ordinances, Satan, Second Coming, and Future Life.

Get Thee Behind Me Satan

"Get Thee Behind Me Satan" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Harriet Hilliard.

Guest in the House

Guest in the House (re-release title Satan in Skirts) is a 1944 American film noir directed by John Brahm.

Helena Curtens

In reality, Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau was executed in 1749 and the farmer Anna Schnidenwind, née Trutt 1688, was executed in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl 24 April 1751 convicted of having caused the great fire of Wyhls by a pact with Satan.

Hell on Earth 2006

Satan's assistant Demonius finds a cake the exact size and shape of an Acura TSX as a last-minute substitute.

Satan also decides to have a "really huge surprise as dessert"; he decides upon a cake the size and shape of a Ferrari Enzo, which three notorious serial killers—Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy—are entrusted with bringing to the party in time for midnight.

Iraj Mirza

Among many poems that Iraj composed, his well-known poems include Satan (in Persian: Ebleess), Mother (in Persian: Maadar), A Letter to a Poet Aref Ghazvini (in Persian: Arefnameh), Woman's Picture (in Persian: Tassvir-e-Zan), Story of the Veil or Hijab (in Persian: hejab) and the Story of Zohreh and Manouchehr (in Persian: Daastan-e-Zohreh-o-Manouchehr), which is based on William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.

Islamic mythology

Extra-biblical Christian mythology identifies the snake with Satan, but the actual text of the Biblical story does not explicitly make this identification.

Last Battle

Armageddon, in Christian theology, the final battle between God and Satan

Les Litanies de Satan

The Norwegian black metal act Gorgoroth performed "Litani til Satan", with Baudelaire's lyrics translated to Nynorsk, on their Incipit Satan album.

Matt Servitto

Since 2012 he has been a series regular on the original Cinemax series "Banshee" where he plays Deputy Brock Lotus and on the Adult Swim television series Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell where he plays Satan.

Mogwai Fear Satan

The EP Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes (released in March, 1998) includes the Mogwai Remix, the μ-Ziq Remix, the Surgeon Remix, and the My Bloody Valentine Remix.

Playing Gods

A sticker sheet is provided with the game to allow for other gods and religions, including Scientology (represented by Tom Cruise with a UFO over his head), Zeus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, beer, the Cult of Oprah, the Almighty Dollar, war, Islam, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs (of the Church of the Subgenius), the Flying Spaghetti Monster, death, Satan, television, the Goddess, atheism, the Magic 8 Ball, McWorld (American consumerism), and others.

Satan and Adam

Satan and Adam, a blues duo consisting of Sterling "Mister Satan" Magee (born May 20, 1936; Mount Olive, Mississippi) and Adam Gussow (born April 3, 1958; New York City, New York), were a fixture on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Satanachia

Satanachia is described in the Grand Grimoire as a commander-in-chief of Satan's army, who controls either forty-five or fifty-four legions of demons, including Pruflas, Aamon, Barbatos, and Astaroth.

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Sons of Satan Gather for Attack

Sons of Satan Gather for Attack is a split album between Dimmu Borgir and Old Man's Child.

The Photos

The Photos were originally a punk band named Satan's Rats that formed in Evesham, Worcestershire in 1977, with the first stable line-up of Paul Rencher (vocals), Steve Eagles (guitar/vocals), Roy Wilkes (bass guitar), and Olly Harrison (drums).

The Power of Myth

The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).

Wendy Perriam

Perriam then went silent as she struggled through a long period of depression, having been expelled from her Catholic school for heresy and told she was in Satan's power.

Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

Satan (Matt Servitto) - the strict ruler of Hell, who shows Claude more respect then Gary.

Yuzhmash

Missiles produced at Yuzhmash included the first nuclear armed Soviet rocket R-5M (SS-3 'Shyster'), the R-12 Dvina (SS-4 'Sandal'), the R-14 Chusovaya (SS-5 'Skean'), the first widely deployed Soviet ICBM R-16 (SS-7 'Saddler'), the R-36 (SS-9 'Scarp'), the MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 'Spanker'), and the R-36M (SS-18 'Satan').