The devil does not originate from Europe, but from the Orient. For centuries, however, his shadow lay over the continent and from there made its way to the New World. Europeans suffered from Satan (as he is called in Hebrew), but they also transformed him and changed the devil into their own image and likeness. He took on the form that was used or feared. He changed his face and adapted to the Europeans who called upon him. Kurt Flasch tells the story of the devil in twenty chapters. The book describes the biblical beginnings and the development of Satanology by the Church Fathers and in the Middle Ages, the fateful connection between Satan and sexuality, as well as the belief in the devil and witch hunts. It takes a visit to hell and focuses on the personnel there, the angels of evil, but it goes beyond that into the present. The devil has changed profoundly.