Rank
Class of Spirits
3 figures in this corpus are recorded as class of spirits. Rank here is a claim made by a particular text rather than a property of the figure, so the same name can hold different ranks in different sources — and where it does, the profile shows the disagreement instead of picking one.
Which texts assign this rank?
Who holds the rank of class of spirits?
The Daimones
Class of Spirits · Greek
Guardian spirits — Socrates had one that advised him — whose name the Greek scriptures borrowed for evil spirits, permanently poisoning the word.
The Yakkha
Class of Spirits · Buddhist
A Buddhist class of spirits that are neither good nor evil by nature — tree-dwellers and gate-keepers who can eat travellers or take refuge in the Buddha, and frequently do the second after threatening the first.
The Incubus
Class of Spirits · Night-oppression
The Latin class term for a spirit that lies on a sleeper, mentioned in passing by Augustine as a common report and turned by the Malleus Maleficarum, a thousand years later, into a doctrine with a procedure attached.