What does the devil look like? Here's 8 historical images of Satan

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From a fallen angel to a bearded, red-hued man with horns (wearing his very own Nike Satan shoes, as reported in The Guardian) the Prince of Darkness' appearance has been reinvented many times. The satanic figure of today is the result of centuries of art, literature and theatre, all sculpting a personification of evil.

To find out what the devil really looks like, All About History magazine spoke with Marina Montesano, professor of Medieval History at the University of Messina in Italy, and Jan Machielsen, senior lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University in the UK. Both of these scholars are experts in the history of Satan and the occult.

Here are eight ways that people have pictured Satan through history:

https://www.livescience.com/what-does-the-devil-look-like.html

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1. A Fat Orange Blob With A Dead Tribble On His Head nt

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2. That's the first image that popped into my head.

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3. I picture the Devil as an unremarkable person, like those Good Germans in the 1930s.

A boring middle-class person who nonetheless made all of that possible.

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4. Here ya go, let me introduce myself.....

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5. Or this...

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6. well...

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Here's a depiction of the devil in a music video as a homage to la cultura afropatiana.

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7. On a more serious note, ...

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I actually do have a description around somewhere, but I’m very short on time at the moment, and would need to look up the references.

Meanwhile, there is a description of the devil here in this documentary about my wife’s culture: