Russell, Jeffrey Burton, The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History, Cornell University Press (1992) ISBN 978-0-8014-8056-0, p. 2 The incubation period varies, depending on the heat, but once the babies hatch, they are left to fend for themselves. 15. Although the sand lizard is not considered endangered, the population has had a decline but not just from predators capturing and eating them.

Kaartvedt, S., Røstad, A., Klevier, T. A. & Staby, A. Use of bottom-mounted echo sounders in exploring behavior of mesopelagic fishes. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 395, 109–118.By the end of the second millennium BC, Bes had proliferated across the Mediterranean world. Even local, non-Egyptian craftsmen produced objects decorated with his image. Early in the first millennium, the Phoenicians became big fans of Bes, as the Romans would too. Bes occasionally appears dressed as a Roman legionnaire. His rampant popularity even survived the advent of Christianity. a b Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Marcionites". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. We were unable to attribute specific behaviours to M. tarapacana during dives due to limitations of the technology used. The species has been reported to prey on both pelagic crustaceans 23 and small fishes 24. We suspect that the tagged rays were feeding on the dense layers of deep pelagic organisms that are present in the central North Atlantic 5. Several characteristics of the most common dive profile provide strong, albeit circumstantial, evidence that the rays are indeed foraging at depth. Deep scattering layers are usually more pronounced during the daytime when many vertically migrating species are concentrated at depth 25. These patterns are, therefore, at least consistent with the hypothesis of more, or more productive, foraging activity during daylight hours. Dive profiles of this type were characterized by rapid descents with slower ascents, a pattern also reported in several shark species and interpreted as prey-searching behaviour 26. The step-wise ascents that we found in many of the profiles were consistent with the hypothesis that the rays were feeding on fish or squid in high-density layers at depth. Direct acoustic or visual confirmation using different technologies will, however, be needed to test this hypothesis. We also identified several long deep-dive profiles of up to 11 h during which the rays were exposed to water temperatures <10 °C for long periods. Basking sharks are the only other elasmobranch that we are aware of that performs comparably long dives to these depths and temperatures 13. It would be difficult for the rays to maintain body heat during the long-duration deep dives and therefore these dives may be associated with travelling rather than foraging, as has been proposed for reef mantas 27. However, additional tagging efforts are required to gain a better understating of these long dives. In such cases, it would presumably be unnecessary to maintain heightened brain function or visual acuity at depth if foraging activity during these long-duration dives was either limited or absent. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

At its height, Starr said he wasn’t taking in much money from Tail Devils. “I think we sold a million of them in total. But when you’re giving a ton of them away you’re making 25¢ on each one, you’re not making much of anything.”After many designs, he cut a bar of mischmetal into small slices and fit them into a plastic mold that could be attached to the bottom of the tail. This would become the Tail Devil. Lucifer / the Morning Star (Greek and Roman): the bringer of light, illuminator; the planet Venus, often portrayed as Satan's name in Christianity Janusz Biene, Christopher Daase, Julian Junk, Harald Müller Salafismus und Dschihadismus in Deutschland: Ursachen, Dynamiken, Handlungsempfehlungen Campus Verlag 2016 9783593506371 p. 177 (German) Jeffrey Burton Russell (1987). The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Cornell University Press. pp.11, 34. ISBN 0-8014-9409-5. Not only does it make them risky to touch or bite for predators, it also makes them difficult to be swallowed as well.

A 1608 woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum showing Satan as a flying goat, carrying a witch to the Sabbath. (Image credit: UniversalImagesGroup / Contributor via Getty Images) John Arendzen (1909) in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) mentions that Eusebius accused Apelles, the 2nd-century AD Gnostic, of considering the Inspirer of Old Testament prophecies to be not a god, but an evil angel. [36] These writings commonly refer to the Creator of the material world as "a demiurgus" [35] to distinguish him from the One true God. Some texts, such as the Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, not only demonized the Creator God but also called him by the name of the devil in some Jewish writings, Samael. [37] Catharism Richard Gauvain Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God Routledge 2013 ISBN 978-0-7103-1356-0 p. 74Sutton, T. T. et al. Vertical structure, biomass and topographic association of deep-pelagic fishes in relation to a mid-ocean ridge system. Deep Sea Res. II 55, 161–184 (2008). Shoghi Effendi quoted in Hornby, Helen (1983). Hornby, Helen (ed.). Lights of Guidance: A Baháʼí Reference File. Baháʼí Publishing Trust, New Delhi, India. p.513. ISBN 81-85091-46-3. Vísindavefurinn: How many words are there in Icelandic for the devil?". Visindavefur.hi.is. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 . Retrieved 5 April 2012. In 1936, the American writer Stephen Vincent Benet wrote " The Devil and Daniel Webster" in which the character Mr. Scratch (Satan) fights for his right to a man's soul in a court of law. In a similar vein, the 1997 film "Devil's Advocate" sees Al Pacino play Lucifer as the head of a shady New York City law firm.