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The Seven Princes and the Deadly Sins

Peter Binsfeld's 1589 assignment of one demon to each capital sin. Widely repeated as though it were ancient doctrine; it is a single early-modern author's scheme, and other writers of the same period assigned the sins quite differently.

Tractatus de Confessionibus Maleficorum et Sagarum · 1589

Source base of members

  • 80+4
  • 50–793

Alignment mix

  • Fallen2
  • Infernal5

7 of 7 nodes link to a profile; the rest are structural labels from the source text.

7 nodes

the whole structure as one tree

The Seven Princes and th…The Seven Princes and the Deadly SinsPrideThe first sin in eve…Pride — The first sin in every ordering, and the one the fall narratives turn on.GreedA word for wealth in…Greed — A word for wealth in the gospels, made into a person by the time Binsfeld writes.LustConsistent with Tobi…Lust — Consistent with Tobit, where he kills seven husbands on the wedding night.EnvyThe least intuitive …Envy — The least intuitive of the seven; Job's sea-beast has nothing to do with envy.GluttonyAssigned to the lord…Gluttony — Assigned to the lord of the flies, presumably by association with rot and feasting.WrathBinsfeld keeps Satan…Wrath — Binsfeld keeps Satan and Lucifer as separate officers, which most later writers do not.SlothWith the twist that …Sloth — With the twist that he tempts through ingenious inventions promising wealth without labour.

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