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A demon is a supernatural being, spirit, god, god-like or fiend in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

• If it’s evil, malevolent is a caco-demon.

• If it’s good, benevolent is an eu-demon.

The term comes from the Hellenic religion‘s figure daimon.

Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:

Entertainment

Fictional entities and role-playing games

Films

• The Demon (1918 film), an American silent comedy film
• The Demon (1926 film), an American silent Western film
• Demons, a 1971 Japanese film directed by Toshio Matsumoto
• Demon (1976 film) or God Told Me To, an American horror film
• The Demon (1978 film), a Japanese drama film
• The Demon (South African film), a slasher film
• Demons (1985 film), an Italian horror film
• Daemon (film), a 1985 British horror film
• Demon (2015 film), a Polish drama film
• Demons (2017 film), an American horror film
• Demon (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language horror film

Publications

Music

Albums

Songs

• “Demon” (King Von song)
• “Demon” (Jay Park song)
• “Demons” (Doja Cat song)
• “Demons” (Fatboy Slim song)
• “Demons” (Guster song)
• “Demons” (Imagine Dragons song)
• “Demons” (Brian McFadden song)
• “Demons” (James Morrison song)
• “Demons” (The National song)
• “Demons” (Sleigh Bells song)
• “Demons” (Super Furry Animals song)
• “Demon8”, by Mercenary on album First Breath
• “Demon”, bonus track by Trivium on album Ember to Inferno
• “Demon”, by KYPCK on album Cherno
• “Daemon”, by Whitechapel on album This is Exile
• “Demons”, by Avenged Sevenfold on album Diamonds in the Rough
• “Demons”, by Fenech-Soler
• “Demons”, by Mayday Parade on album Monsters in the Closet
• “Demons”, by The Wanted on album Word of Mouth
• “Demons”, by Blue Stahli on album The Devil
• “Demons”, by Lil Wayne on album Tha Carter V
• “Demons”, by Kim Petras on album Turn Off the Light
• “Demons”, by Hayley Kiyoko on album I’m Too Sensitive for This Shit
• “Demons”, by Alec Benjamin on album These Two Windows
• “Demons”, by Drake on album Dark Lane Demo Tapes
• “Demons”, by Gothminister on album Pandemonium
• “Demons”, by Mutoid Man on album Mutants

Other uses in music

Books

• Daemon (novel), a 2009 novel by Daniel Suarez
• Demon (comics), a 2014–2016 comic series by Jason Shiga
• Demon (novel), a 1984 novel by John Varley
• Demon, a 2003 novel by Christopher Nicole
• Demon: A Memoir, a 2007 novel by Tosca Lee
• Demon and Other Tales, a 1996 collection by Joyce Carol Oates
• Demons (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons (Dillard novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel by J.M. Dillard
• Demons, a 1987 novel by Guy N. Smith
• Demons, a 1993 novel by Bill Pronzini
• Demons, a 2000 novella by John Shirley
• Demons!, a 1987 anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• The Daemon, a 1977 novel by Peter Tuesday Hughes
• The Demon, a 1976 book by Eve Bunting
• The Demon (novel), a 1976 novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
• The Demon, a 2003–2004 two-part Star Trek novel by Loren L. Coleman and Randall L. Bills; the 35th and 36th installment in the Corps of Engineers series
• The Demons, reissue title of Demons’ World, a 1964 novel by Kenneth Bulmer

Television

Programs

Episodes

Computing

Religion, philosophy and mythology

Religion

Philosophy

• Demon (thought experiment), a class of hypotheses
  • Laplace’s demon (1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Maxwell’s demon, a concept by James Clerk Maxwell concerning the statistics of second law of thermodynamics
  • Evil demon, a philosophical concept originating with René Descartes
  • Darwinian Demon, a hypothetical organism resulting from absence of biological constraints on evolution

Mythology

People

• Demon (musician) (born 1977), French electronic musician
• Blue Demon (1922–2000), a professional wrestler and actor
• Finn Bálor (born 1981), nicknamed “The Demon” in WWE
• Kane (wrestler) (born 1967), wrestler for WWE and WWF
• Alex de Minaur (born 1999), Australian tennis player nicknamed “Demon”
• Dale Torborg (born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name “The Demon”
• Gene Simmons (born 1948), vocalist and bassist for the rock band Kiss, whose stage persona is “The Demon”

Places

Sports

Basketball

Football and rugby

Science

Other

• Canfield (solitaire) or Demon, a solitaire/patience card game
• Dæmonen, a roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens
• Demon (roller coaster), at Six Flags Great America and California’s Great America
• Screamin’ Demon, a shuttle loop roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio
• Demon (poem), by Mikhail Lermontov
• The Demon (opera), by Anton Rubinstein
• Demon (UAV), an aircraft built by BAE Systems
• McDonnell F3H Demon, a United States Navy fighter aircraft
• Hawker Demon, a Royal Air Force biplane
• Demons (board game), a 1979 fantasy game
• Dodge Demon, a name used for various automobiles made by Dodge

See also

Topics referred to by the same term