This study compared the reports of satanic, sexual, and physical abuse of persons instructed to role-play either dissociative identity disorder (DID) (n = 33), major depression (n = 33), or a college student who experienced minor adjustment problems ("normal") (n = 33) across a number of trials that included role-played hypnosis. As hypothesized, more of the participants who were asked to role-...

Satan has captured the imagination of writers in the English language for centuries. This figure and the notion of evil have gone through many changes in English literature of the 19 and 20 centuries. Something changed Satan during this time, and made him into an arbiter of truth rather than a figure of rebellion. In The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain used him as the grand narrator of the univ...

This study is aimed at exposing the conception of verses Qur'an vis a Verses Satan. Salman Rushdie with his work The Satanic (Satanic Verses) once shocked Islamic world, by trying to counter belief Muslims in sacredness Qur'an. Uniquely, Rushdie's view actually contained treasures Islam itself, namely Qissat al-gharānīq (Story Crane). Although its validity doubtful, narrations about Satan's hav...