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demon
📅 Updated:2026-04-17
🕒 Created:2011-07-02
🆔 ID:1848
Description
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A demon is a spiritual creature, either beneficent or maleficent, present in many beliefs, influencing humans while escaping their control when summoned or otherwise.
These entities in mythology are very often (if not all the time represented as) evil, they are endowed with reason and can emanate from places or people (e.g. the Yōkai in Japan), being able to influence human souls or the places they pass through and being able to control bodies.
In the context of this tag
Demons are evil hellspawns that tend to have at least one or two of the following traits:
- Having either a bestial or monstrous shape.
- Having a discolored skin (typically red).
- Having horns.
- Having claws.
- Having wings.
- Having a spade tail.
They typically possess some form of supernatural power(s).
Related tags:
- caprine_demon
- demon_humanoid - For when a demon mainly resembles a human with demonic traits and/or colored skin.
- demonic
- monstrous_demon - A demon with a particularly monstrous appearance.
- shoulder_devil
