The difference between the devil and satan.

In this regard, the number of names of the "progenitor of evil" (this is the definition of Conan Doyle, given by him in the story "The Hound of the Baskervilles") has greatly increased. Let's remember some of them:

  • Beelzebub ("lord of the flies");
  • Lucifer ("light-bearer");
  • Mephistopheles (a character of German folk art, used by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the work "Faust");
  • Woland (the name of Satan in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita).

And in Islam, the devil is called Iblis or Shaitan.

To summarize, we can say that the words "satan" and "devil" are synonymous. Moreover, in modern Russian there are many other concepts denoting the enemy of the human race. [thirty].