Sources

What this site is built on: the literary works surveyed, the reference works consulted, and the provenance of every image.

Literary and traditional sources surveyed

Ancient and medieval:

The Hebrew Bible — Job 1–2; Zechariah 3; Isaiah 14:12; Leviticus 16 (descriptive survey; translations vary)
1 Enoch (Second Temple Jewish literature, c. 3rd–1st century BCE) — the Watchers tradition
The New Testament — Matthew 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–13; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:9, 20:2
The Qur’an — 7:11–18; 15:28–44; 38:71–85 (Iblis narratives; cited descriptively)
Dante Alighieri, Inferno, canto 34 (c. 1308–1320)
The Malleus Maleficarum (1486) — surveyed as a historical document of persecution-era demonology

Early modern to modern literature:

The German Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587)
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c. 1590s; printed 1604)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; revised 1674)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One (1808)
Washington Irving, “The Devil and Tom Walker” (1824)
Stephen Vincent Benét, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936)
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790–93) — the “Devil’s party” remark

Folk legend (surveyed as folklore, not fact):

Crossroads bargain legends (European and American, incl. the Robert Johnson story)
The devil-fiddler legends (Paganini rumors; Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” dream)
Saint Dunstan and the tongs; Devil’s Bridge tales

Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, s.v. “Satan”
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, s.v. “Devil”
Encyclopaedia Judaica, s.v. “Satan”
Encyclopaedia of Islam, s.v. “Iblīs”
Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. “Ahreman”
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan (1995)
George W.E. Nickelsburg, 1 Enoch 1, Hermeneia (2001)
Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (1977) and sequels

The Vizlings app roster (2026-09-26): name “Satan,” slug satan, category Monsterlings, card description “Satan” (quoted verbatim on the Stream page). No owner-supplied bio or art was available as of 2026-09-27.
All persona lines, scenes, lore, and world-building on this site are written for the Vizlings character (2026-09-27) and labeled as such.

See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

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