Dictionnaire Infernal, by Collin de Plancy (1863)

Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy (1793-1887) was a French occultist, demonologist and writer; he published several works on occultism and demonology. He was born in 1793 in Plancy-l'Abbaye and died in 1887. He was a free-thinker influenced by Voltaire. He worked as a printer and publisher in Plancy-l'Abbaye and Paris. Between 1830 and 1837, he resided in Brussels, and then returned to France after it returned to the Catholic religion.
Collin de Plancy followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, and The Lesser Key of Solomon among others. In 1818 his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. In 1863 were added some images that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons. In 1822 it was advertised as:
"Anecdotes of the nineteenth new century or historiettes, recent anecdotes, features and words little known, singular adventures, various quotations, bringings together and curious parts, to be used for the history of customs and the spirit of the century when we live compared with the last centuries."
It is considered a major work documenting beings, characters, books, deeds, and causes which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell; divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, errors, prejudices, traditions, folktales, the various superstitions, and generally all manner of marvellous, surprising, mysterious, and supernatural beliefs.
By the end of 1830 he ostensibly became an enthusiastic Catholic -- to the confusion of his former admirers and detractors.
In 1846 you could purchase (for 16 francs for two volumes) the Dictionnaire Sciences Occultes et des Idée'es superstitieuses which is another listing of demons.
Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy was the father of Victor Emile Marie Joseph Collin de Plancy (1853-1924) who for nearly a decade starting in 1884 served as French Minister to Korea and whose collected art works and books went on to comprise a core of the Korean collections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.
The Dictionnaire Infernal (English: Infernal Dictionary) is a book on demonology, organised in hellish hierarchies. It was written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818. There were several editions of the book, but perhaps the most famous is the edition of 1863, in which sixty-nine illustrations were added to the book. These illustrations are drawings which try to depict the descriptions of the appearance of several demons. Many of these images were later used in S. L. MacGregor Mathers's edition of The Lesser Key of Solomon though some of the images were removed.
Music by Keith Jarrett, 'Shock, Scatter'.

Il Dictionnaire Infernal ("Dizionario Infernale") è un libro di demonologia, organizzato in gerarchie infernali. Fu scritto da Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1818. Ci furono diverse edizioni del libro, ma probabilmente la più famosa è quella del 1863, nella quale furono aggiunte al libro sessantanove illustrazioni. Questi disegni cercano di rappresentare i demoni a partire dalla loro descrizione fisica. Molte di queste immagini furono utilizzate anche nell'edizione di S. L. MacGregor Mathers del libro "The Lesser Key of Solomon", malgrado alcune furono rimosse.

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[Aberwitz88]

Are those images the whole gallery of the Collin's dictionary?

Could someone give me a link for download this dictionary in PDF?

[shivabel]

@Aberwitz88 You can find and download this book in PDF format on the site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (gallica.bnf.fr).You have to search for the sixth edition of the Dictionnaire Infernal de Collin de Plancy (1863), the most complete, with 550 etchings. In my video you can see all the pictures concerning the demons.

[MatheusNiisama]

i was wondering, tap is the big creepy guy or the little one in his nape?

[shivabel]

@MatheusNiisama Tap is the big demon, "He appears in human form at noon, and is said to intensify the passions of love and hatred, and can transport men to different countries." I'm sorry, but i could not write the complete text of this book, but just some excerpts as captions.

[Grey7Cow]

Can you give me a link for the whole gallery of the demon images in Dictionnaire Infernal?

[shivabel]

@Grey7Cow You can see the whole gallery in my video

[RosesandLaceVintage]

I've never heard of some of these demons before...,Great video and very interesting! The music sent chills down my spine, as it should!

[TheFinlandnator]

@publicano777 Read the description.

Its Keith Jarrett's Fourth (Shock, Scatter) from the album Invocations.

[publicano777]

wtf is that music? I would like to know its name and author...

[Drag4401]

@shivabel but that's the french version. Has any1 ever tranlated the full Plancy text to English ?

[Aberwitz88]

@shivabel Ok. Thanks!

[Inediblehulk]

@Alcuard1992 Possibly. But, like any god, it's a matter of faith. Existence is irrelevant.

[Alcuard1992]

@Inediblehulk Cthulhu was a fictional character created in the 1920's by H.P. Lovecraft. It is fictional.

[Inediblehulk]

@Specilum Who's that? Cthulhu?