Satan: Quick Facts

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Gustave Doré: depiction of Satan

Detail from Luca Signorelli's fresco The Deeds of the Antichrist, showing the Antichrist in a red robe being whispered to by a horned, bare-chested Satan, with onlookers in the background.

Compendium maleficarum: Devil and witches trampling a cross

Satan leaving God's presence

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