I always find works like the Dictionarire Infernal to be a fascinating trip down a rabbit hole. It's not even a compilation of folk demons (although I'm sure so

I always find works like the Dictionarire Infernal to be a fascinating trip down a rabbit hole. It's not even a compilation of folk demons (although I'm sure some appear in here), as much as it's an earnest D&D Monster Manual, or editing Wookiepedia. It's hard to imagine if I was writing it taking it as anything more than escapism. Of course the flip side of this book is De Coelesti Hierarchia, which defines angelology with a hierarchy and different types to closely mimic contemporary feudal society. ("How can you have a kingdom, without a minor land barons? Let's make some up!") If it was just scholarship that something, but it's no even that, it's more pseudo-scholarship. Religion is a hell of a drug.