DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL DEMONS AND OCCULTISM

The Dictionnaire Infernal is a renowned compendium of demonology and occultism, recognized for its intricate illustrations and comprehensive entries. Originally published in 1818 by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, it was illustrated by Louis le Breton in 1863. Le Breton's haunting illustrations bring to life the diverse array of demons documented in the Dictionnaire Infernal. Our demon prints from the Dictionnaire are printed on high quality. Influenced by Voltaire, Collin de Plancy initially did not believe in superstition. For example, the book reassures its contemporaries as to the torments of Hell: "To deny that there are sorrows and rewards after death is to deny the existence of God; since God exists, it must be necessarily so. But only God could know the punishments meted out to the guilty, or the place that holds them. All the catalogues made here before are only the fruit of a more or less disordered imagination. Theologians should leave to the poets the depiction of Hell, and not themselves seek to frighten minds with hideous paintings and appalling books". Illustration du Dictionnaire infernal de Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy par Louis Le Breton, 6eme édition, 1863. English An infernal matter of forms and pandemonium of aberration, germs, eccentricity, and catastrophe rubbing shoulders with the truth: fictional and indigestible. Extravagant ideas and distorted beliefs and sought-after works of the Infernal Dictionary 1862. Beings, characters, books, and things that relate to spirits, demons, sorcerers, commerce in hell, divinations, evil spells, cabala, and occult sciences, wonders, impostures, various superstitions and prognoses, actual facts of spiritualism, and generally to all marvelous, surprising, mysterious and supernatural false beliefs.