DAIMONOLOGIA

By St. Athanasius the Great (Excerpts from On the Incarnation ) - "Since the Savior has come among us, idolatry not only has no long...

St. Nikita of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (Feast Day - January 31) ( Paterikon of the Kiev Caves Lavra , 25) While the venerab...

By John Sanidopoulos There are a few ways demons express their anger in physical form. One of the more characteristic ways, recorded many ...

There was a mountain called Kastellion about twenty stadia from the Lavra of Saint Savvas. No one dared set foot in that rugged and remote ...

St. John of Novgorod (Feast Day - September 7) By St. Dimitri of Rostov Once, at midnight, as [Archbishop John of Novgorod] stood as us...

In German-speaking Alpine folklore, Krampus is a horned, beastly figure who punishes children during the Christmas season who have misbehav...

By John Sanidopoulos "There is also a very general rumor. Many have verified it by their own experience and trustworthy persons have ...

Saint Abercius was the Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180). During a pagan celebration on...

In the Life of Paul the Hermit by Saint Jerome, written in the year 374 or 375 during Jerome’s stay in the desert of Syria, we read how Sa...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich Spiritists of our day accept every manifestation from the spiritual world as though sent by God, and immediate...

And it came to pass once when Abba [Pachomios], and Theodore whom he loved, were walking through the monastery by night, that they saw sudd...

By Nun Magdalene It is a serious educational mistake to talk to young children in detail about demons, because if a child hears once how t...

  By St. John Moschos Abba John the Cilician told us that while he was staying at the ninth mile-post from Alexandria, an Egyptian monk vis...

By Archimandrite Vasilios Bakoyiannis What a Tibetan Occultist Saw In 1970, an occultist from Tibet visited Athens. As he was walking alo...

By Archimandrite Vasilios Bakoyiannis The Common Symptoms It is certainly possible for a person who is mentally ill or suffers from nerv...

Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Feast Day - October 2) By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas On October 2nd the Church celebrates the mem...

St. Symeon the Fool for Christ (Feast Day - July 21) Below are excerpts from the Life of Symeon the Fool by Leontios of Cyprus that con...

St. John of the Ladder ( Ladder , "On Expert Discernment", Step 26:152) writes: "At the beginning of the monastic life som...

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich "O thou enemy, thy destructions are come to a perpetual end, even as the cities which thou hast destroyed...

Q: Can the demons communicate anything good? And how does one discover that it is demonic? And what distinguishes it from something good fr...