diabolism
Noun
Meaning
Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
Possession by the devil.
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Anyone in the Order found guilty of diabolism is expelled and hunted down.
In short, the witch became Satan's puppet."sfn This conception of witches was "part of a conception of magic that is termed by scholars as 'Satanism' or 'diabolism'".
Matthew Gregory Lewis 's lurid tale of monastic debauchery, black magic and diabolism entitled The Monk (1796) offered the first continental novel to follow the conventions of the Gothic novel.