Friar Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum (1628) describes fire devils as one of the six species of demons (or devils) in Hell. In service to the Devil, these servitor demons of fire are the most powerful of all species and therefore command the five other Species of Devils: Aerial Devil, Aqueous Devils, Heliophobic Devils, Subterranean Devils, and Terrestrial Devils. Fire demons, according to Friar Guazzo, live in the upper air.
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