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==Titles== Honorifics or styles of address used to indicate devil-figures. {{Div col}} * Ash-[[Shaytan]] "Satan", the attributive Arabic term referring to the devil * [[Angra Mainyu]], Ahriman: "malign spirit", "unholy spirit" * [[Dark lord]] * ''Der Leibhaftige [Teufel]'' (German): "[the devil] in the flesh, corporeal"<ref>Grimm, ''[[Deutsches Wörterbuch]]'' s.v. "leibhaftig": "gern in bezug auf den teufel: ''dasz er kein mensch möchte sein, sondern ein leibhaftiger teufel.'' volksbuch von dr. [[Faust]] […] ''der auch blosz der leibhaftige heiszt, so in Tirol.'' Fromm. 6, 445; ''wenn ich dén sehe, wäre es mir immer, der leibhaftige wäre da und wolle mich nehmen''. [[Jeremias Gotthelf|J. Gotthelf]] Uli d. pächter (1870) 345</ref> * ''Diabolus, Diabolos'' (Greek: Διάβολος) * The Evil One * The Father of Lies (John 8:44), in contrast to Jesus ("I am the truth"). * [[Iblis]], name of the devil in Islam * The [[Underworld|Lord of the Underworld]] / Lord of [[Hell]] / Lord of this world * [[Lucifer]] / the Morning Star (Greek and Roman): the bringer of light, illuminator; the planet [[Venus]], often portrayed as Satan's name in Christianity * Kölski (Iceland)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=4793 |title=Vísindavefurinn: How many words are there in Icelandic for the devil? |publisher=Visindavefur.hi.is |access-date=5 April 2012 |archive-date=7 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207014220/http://www.visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=4793 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Mephistopheles]] * [[Old Scratch]], the Stranger, [[Christian teaching about the Devil|Old Nick]]: a colloquialism for the devil, as indicated by the name of the character in the short story "[[The Devil and Tom Walker]]" * [[Prince of darkness (Manichaeism)|Prince of darkness]], the devil in Manichaeism * Ruprecht (German form of [[Robert]]), a common name for the Devil in Germany (see [[Knecht Ruprecht|Knecht Ruprecht (Knight Robert)]]) * [[Satan]] / the Adversary, Accuser, Prosecutor; in Christianity, the devil * (The ancient/old/crooked/coiling) [[Serpent (Bible)|Serpent]] * [[Voland]] (fictional character in ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'') {{Div col end}}
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