Demon Glossary

Intrusive Thoughts

Thoughts that feel foreign, that seem to arrive from somewhere outside the person's own mind, particularly when they are persistent, negative, or command-like in tone.

Hearing Voices

Hearing one or more internal voices that are negative, persuasive, or directive, urging the person toward a specific harmful action.

Sudden Onset Depression

A depressive episode that arrives abruptly rather than developing gradually, ranging from subtle to severe, sometimes including thoughts of suicide or a conviction that life is not worth living.

A Sense of External Control

The feeling that something else is directing the person's actions, or exerting pressure toward specific behavior the person would not otherwise choose.

Physical Sensations of Attack

The feeling of being touched, scratched, or otherwise physically assaulted by an unseen presence, including the nighttime experiences described under Incubus and Succubus.

Personality Change

A marked, uncharacteristic shift in personality or behavior, often described by the person's family as feeling like they are dealing with someone else entirely.

Poltergeist-Type Phenomena

Scratching sounds, objects falling or moving without explanation, religious or spiritual items specifically being disturbed, thumping, electronics malfunctioning, or unexplained sounds.

Violent Behavior

Sudden aggression or violence that is out of character for the person, particularly when it arises in a specific, recurring pattern.

Aversion to Prayer

A strong resistance or inability to pray, or unusual discomfort in the presence of prayer, Scripture, or worship.

Unexplained Knowledge

Demonstrating knowledge or information the person has no natural way of possessing, a pattern the source material connects to familiar spirits.

Spirit of Lust

Named repeatedly in the source testimonies as a foundational stronghold, one that tends to open the door for other oppressive patterns to follow it in.

Spirit of Rebellion

Associated in testimony with sudden, uncharacteristic conflict against parents and other authority figures.

Spirit of Lying

Named as a strongman-level pattern in one testimony, a deeply rooted oppression requiring repeated, sustained prayer rather than a single act of deliverance.

Spirit of Fear

Described as descending suddenly, sometimes tied to a specific triggering event, and persisting until displaced by growth in faith.

Spirit of Insecurity

Addressed directly by name in a recorded deliverance prayer, treated as its own distinct oppression rather than a symptom of something else.

Spirit of the Antichrist

1 John 4:3 — any spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ come in the flesh. John identifies this as already active in the world at the time of his writing, not a future-only phenomenon.

Open Door

A point of spiritual vulnerability created by specific sin or behavior, drawn from Ecclesiastes 10:8's image of the man who breaks through a hedge and is bitten by the serpent waiting on the other side.

Soul Tie

A spiritual bond formed through sexual relationship outside marriage, described as capable of functioning as a bridge that passes oppression from one person to another.

Hedge of Protection

The spiritual boundary understood to surround a believer. A breach in that hedge — through sin, occult involvement, or unresolved trauma — is what allows oppression to take hold.