#flichtering

[echoesofthefall]

As Joyce Miller has recently shown, between 1563 and 1736, depictions of the Devil as a demonologically stereotypical ‘black man or dressed in black’ were not ubiquitous (only appearing in 81 out of a total of 392 descriptions); and in the remaining 311 instances he appeared in guises as varied as ‘ane bonnie young lad’, ‘ane hen flichtering’, ‘like Flies dancing about the Candle’, ‘ane bisome [broom]’, ‘a black cloud’ and even as a ‘ruck of hay’. [...] The Devil’s shape-shifting abilities were also so sophisticated that he could appear before an individual in different forms from one day to the next, and even during the same encounter.

Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie

[j216]

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