Picture a demon. Horns, wings, a tail, red skin, maybe a pitchfork — every horror movie draws the same creature, and every Halloween costume rack sells it. Dr. Matthew Larsen, a historian of early Christianity at the University of Copenhagen, recently spent a fifteen-minute video asking where that picture came from. The answer turns out to be stranger than the costume: the parts are older than the Bible itself — and the Bible, the book you’d expect to settle the question, never describes a demon at all.
