Demon and Woman: The Mark of Satan and the Fight Against It

Abstract

This article aims at drawing an overview of devil-woman symbolism and feminine character of the demonic, inherited from the misogynist discourse from a comparative perspective, showing that they are rooted in the Judeo-Christian moral, which developed in the Middle Ages, and continued during the Golden Age. It explores the different opposita of the female as subject active evil, able to tempt the male as a succubus demon and women who become a passive object and a target of seduction. As a text case, some comments are made about an inquisitorial 17th-century text, the Process of faith of the nuns of Santa Clara of Trujillo (Peru), accused for being obsessed, and tried at the Inquisitorial Court of Lima of The Viceroyalty of Peru. This case shows similarities in some respects with the mystical experience of Teresa of Avila, as well as of other visionary religious.

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