ABSTRACT
One interesting instance of the Devil's charity in this respect is on record and that is found in the Ethiopian SENKESAR or Book of Saints of the Ethiopian Church. The Ethiopians, like the Egyptian Christians (Copts), believed in a personal Devil who was able to take any and every form or shape at will, and who could travel with equal ease through earth, air, and water. In the pictures which illustrate their manuscripts he is usually represented as a huge black man, with large fiery eyes and terrible teeth, with an enormously long body and long thin legs, and paws with claws. On his head is a pair of horns, and he has a long tail. The lesser fiends who perform his will have animals' heads and also tails; they, like their master, possessed an overpoweringly filthy smell, by which their comings and goings could be detected. But the Devil, whether called Diabolos, or Satan, or Mastema, took form of a man at will, and possessing great cunning and skill in trafficking and bargaining with men frequently succeeded in buying their souls from them.
