Double
The apparition of a living person that is an exact duplicate, even including details of dress. Doubles fall into two categories: Death Omens and a…
Author: Lux Ferre
Drake, Sir Francis
Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) was an English navigator, who, in legend, is reputed to have been a wizard. Sir Francis Drake supposedly remains in eternal…
Drummer of Cortachy
The Drummer of Cortachyis a Poltergeist haunting of the Scottish Earls of Airlie, the Ogilvys, of Cortachy Castle. The ghostly drumming was said to presage…
Drummer of Tedworth
The Drummer of Tedworth was an English Poltergeist case for which a living agent, an irate man, took credit, and insinuated that his ability to…
Dzibai
Dzibai (Ghost Midewiwin) The Mide Society (formerly the Midewiwin Society), the medicine society of the Ojibwa (Native Americans), a fraternity of initiates into the mysteries…
Baalberith
Baalberith (Balberith) is a major Demon, one of the spirits possessing Sister Madeleine in the Aix-en-Provence Possessions. Baalberith was once a prince in the angelic…
Beelzebub
Beelzebub (Baal-zebul, Beelzeboul, Belzebub) is the Prince of Demons. Beelzebub, originally an idol of the Canaanites, means “Lord of the Flies.” The name is a…
Denham Exorcisms (1585–1586)
Denham Exorcisms (1585–1586) – The Exorcisms of six fraudulent Demoniacs by 12 Catholic priests, the chief of whom was a Jesuit, William Weston, also known…
Devil
Devil Christianity’s Prince of Supreme Evil. The Devil, or Satan, is not a god of Wiccans and Pagans. The association of witches with the Devil…
Faust
Faust Legend of a learned but arrogant man who makes a Pact with the Devil. The Faust legend was based on the legend of THEOPHILUS…
