/lit/ - Literature

>>17519878
>>17519878
Historically speaking I think sex demons are something made up by horny Catholic monks who were abstaining from sex 1000 years ago to explain wnt they still had wet dreams of women while in self-isolation. Most of our "demons" were created by horny and bored monks who created them as a creative exercise.


The other demons were invented to explain natural phenomenon and to have a scapegoat to explain mental illnesses and why good uncle Ezriel suddenly murdered his family. In the past they knew nothing about science so they invented explanations to feel better and not be so damn afraid.


The Hebrew tribes were a scattered and superstitious primitive people. Why is their thunder and lightning? Why do people become sick and die? Why are there floods? "Well, let's just agree it's because God is angry or it's the work of the demons and then we'll never have to feel like we don't have a clue and be so afraid of this world.