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A male demon who would visit women at night and engage in sexual activity. This belief was commonly held during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. There were also female demons, called succubi who ...

kosher

Religion; General religion

A set of Jewish dietary rules specified in the Hebrew Scriptures and practiced by many Jews.

imprecatory prayer

Religion; General religion

To pray to God asking him to curse and bring evil upon one or more persons. A biblical example is found in Psalms 109 when Jeremiah was being slandered. He asked God to punish the slanderer.

incarnation

Religion; General religion

The embodying of a spiritual entity in physical form. Within Christianity: the concept that God became a man, Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) and dwelt among other humans. This was rejected by the ...

Ramadan

Religion; General religion

A Muslim period of daytime fasting, sexual abstinence, and contemplation which lasts for a lunar month of about 28 days. It commemorates the transmission of the Qur'an by the archangel Gabriel to ...

Reformation

Religion; General religion

A Christian movement which was started by Martin Luther in the early 16th century as an attempt to reform Roman Catholicism. It was joined by Zwingli, Bucer, Calvin and others, and resulted in a ...

resurrection

Religion; General religion

An event in which a dead person returns to life. It is often used to refer to the belief that Jesus died, and later returned to life after about a day and a half in the grave. This is not to be ...