The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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Amityville Dollhouse: Evil Never Dies (1996), and a remake
of the original The Amityville Horror (2005).
FURTHER READING:
Anson, Jay. The Amityville Horror. New York: Prentice Hall,
1977.
Auerbach, Loyd. ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists. New York:
Warner Books, 1986.
Brittle, Gerald Daniel. The Demonologist: The Extraordinary
Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice Hall, 1980.
“The Warrens Investigate: The Amityville Horror.” Available
online. URL: http://www.warrens.net/amityvill.htm.
Downloaded November 1, 2006.
Yancey, Tim. “The Amityville Horror: Interview with George
Lutz.” Available online. URL: http://www.amityvillehorror
truth.com/articles/lutzinterview1.html. Downloaded November
1, 2006.
Amon FALLEN ANGEL and the seventh of the 72 SPIRITS
OF SOLOMON. In HELL, Amon is a strong and powerful
marquis. He appears first as a wolf, but on a magician’s
command, he will take on the shape of a man with a
raven’s head and dog’s teeth. He accurately tells about the
past and the future. He makes men and women fall in love
with each other, and he settles disputes between friends
and enemies. He rules over 40 LEGIONs of DEMONs.
Amon (DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL)
Amorth, Father Gabriele (1925– ) EXORCIST of Vatican
City in the Archdiocese of Rome. Dedicated to the
abolition of satanic evil, Father Gabriele Amorth has personally
handled more than 30,000 exorcisms around the
world.
Amorth believes that many modern-day pastimes and
games—such as conjuring, playing with MAGIC (not illusion),
conversing with a OUIJA, listening to rock music,
and having contact with satanic ritual and content—open
the door for demonic POSSESSION. He says there are too
few priests who believe in casting out devils (although
JESUS bequeaths that ability to the apostles in his name:
Mark 3:5, 10:8), much less have any training in the rites
of EXORCISM.
Amorth was born in Modena, Italy, on May 1, 1925. He
received the faculty of exorcist by Cardinal Ugo Poletti,
the pope’s vicar for the Diocese of Rome, in 1986, studying
under Father Candido Amantini, a Passionist priest,
who served as chief exorcist for 36 years. When Father
Amantini passed away on his saint’s day, September 22,
1992, at age 78, Father Amorth succeeded him.
One reporter described Amorth as more like the genial
Uncle Fester on The Addams Family than the stern
priest depicted by Max von Sydow in the film THE EXOR-
CIST (Amorth’s favorite movie). Amorth’s eyes are intense
and piercing, encircled by dark rings. Their unwavering
gaze appears more than capable of staring down DEMONs.
He dresses in black. Amorth works tirelessly at his calling,
keeping a full calendar of appointments, reading, lecturing,
writing, and, most importantly, ridding sufferers
of the evils he sees all around him.
He is most concerned about the rise he perceives in
satanic activity through the practice of WITCHCRAFT, participation
in satanic groups or rituals, conjuring, attempting
to commune with the dead, fortune telling and card
reading, listening to rock music with satanic lyrics and a
hypnotic rhythm, and dabbling in magic. He has warned
against the popularity of the author J. K. Rowling’s popular
Harry Potter novels, claiming in an interview for a
Catholic news source that behind the boy wizard “lies the
signature of the king of darkness.” He tried unsuccessfully
to have the Potter books banned from Italy, claiming
that they teach sorcery to children.
Demonic possession can happen in one of four ways,
according to Amorth: through a curse by another, by continuing
a life of sin, by practicing occultism, and as a test
of the victim’s faith, most usually the trials endured by
the saints that prove their holiness. The possessed person
invites SATAN into his or her life by choosing the paths of
sin and occultism; the other two ways are foisted upon
the unwary.
When a victim of the Devil petitions Amorth for spiritual
cleansing, the priest does not wait for proof of demonic
presence, as many of his fellow exorcists do, but immediately
begins prayers of deliverance and liberation—a
small exorcism—even over the telephone or by e-mail. He
sees his first efforts as a research tool in themselves, for
if the prayers have any impact at all on the victim, then
inhuman entities are at work. Early in his career, he despaired
of how few exorcists were available, but Amorth