Southern Demonology
Southern Demonology is a podcast that explores angelology, demonology, ghosts, spirits, and monsters from antiquity to the modern day through an academic lens.
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Southern Demonology
Latest Episodes
The Witching Hour Never Existed, so Why are we Afraid of 3:00 A.M.?
Why are so many people afraid of 3:00 a.m.?Modern paranormal culture often calls it the witching hour or the devil’s hour, sometimes claiming that three in the morning represents an inversion of the traditional hour of Christ’s death. Th...
Never Say its Name: The Dangerous Name in Magic and Demonology
What happens when you say a demon's name?Modern horror often treats supernatural names as invitations, as though speaking the wrong one aloud might attract the very thing you are trying to avoid. Ancient magical and exorcistic traditions...
What the Hell is an Angel?
What exactly is an angel?Today, we tend to think of angels as a distinct class of spiritual beings, complete with wings, names, ranks, and an elaborate heavenly hierarchy. Yet the Hebrew word mal'akh and the Greek angelos originally mean...
The Kingdom that Cannot Create: from Ahriman to the Preternatural
For thousands of years, the demonic has refused to remain the same.Ancient Zoroastrianism envisioned a cosmic struggle in which Ahriman and the daēvas invaded and corrupted the good creation. Centuries later, Second Temple Jewish writers...
Satan: When the Adversary Became the Devil
What if Satan was not always the Devil?In the final installment of Southern Demonology’s four-part exploration of the development of supernatural evil, JJ turns to the figure who would eventually overshadow nearly every other adversary i...
