The Devil

After a crazy Halloween week - I took it upon myself to span the spooky festivities over a ten day period - I find a rather amusing story on the frontage of The Sun website in which a mother claim her child is Satan himself.

The mother, Ana Santos, will most likely be left with two options: bow to his demonic powers or kill the child.

In all seriousness, the idea of The Devil is something that has spooked generation after generation with images of Lucifer being plastered around Churches and cults. A typical image of the devil is a horned, goat legged God. Others believe him to be a fallen angel, sent down from Heaven by God.


It's an association which human beings cannot do without, clarifying acts of good or evil into categories. Our obsession with organising deeds is reminiscent of God himself on judgement day. We can way up the good and bad things we have done in our life, ready to receive our reckoning.

Back to Ana and her baby, Colombia like many regions in South America, South Asia and Africa still believe in forms of witchcraft and she hopes to have her baby exorcised. From personal experience seeing 'The Devil' in humans is normally nothing more than an ailment. When I was in Ghana a boy was suffering from a severe form of cerebral palsy - he was frowned upon in school and other children called him 'wrong'. I saw no 'Devil' in that child, but only those around him. Perception is a funny thing.

Heres a Rolling Stones song, because it has 'devil' in the title, listen to those tribal drums at the begging…the boys done their research.