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Names of The
Devil
From
Ernest Weekley's Words an Names (1932): "It
is said that our dialects are provided with some forty
names for the Enemy of Mankind... circumlocutions, sometimes
half propitiatory, which aim at avoiding a dreaded name.
One of his more picturesque titles is the Earl of Hell,
and it is refreshing to find that "as black as the
Earl of Hell's waistcoat,"describing a dark night,
is still used by the imaginative. (Robert) Burns' Address
to the Devil begins:
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O
thou! whatever title suit thee,
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Auld
Hornie, Satan, Nick or Clootie.
Edgar,
in his character of Tom o'Bedlam (pretended madman
in Shakespeare's King Lear), proclaims that:
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The
prince of darkness is a gentleman,
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Modo,
he's called and Mahu.
More names
of The Devil and of Hell:
Satan,
Lucifer, The Prince of Darkness,
The Prince of Devils, The Prince of This World, The Prince
of the Air, His Satanic Majesty, The Prince of Hell, The
Prince of Pandemonium, The (Arch-)Fiend, The Evil One, The
Wicked One, The Tempter, The Author of Evil, The (Common)
Enemy (of Mankind), Old Harry, Old Nick, The Angel of the
Bottomless Pit, Old Horny, Old Gooseberry, Mr. Scratch,
The Old Gentleman, etc.
Gehenna,
Hades, The Bottomless Pit,
The Place of Torment, Everlasting Fire, Acheron, Avernus,
Cocytus, The Inferno, The Infernal Regions, The Lake of
Fire, Lethe, Phlegethon, The Pit, The Realm of Pluto, Styx,
Tartarus, etc.
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