Devil

Also indexed as devils.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES2024.74% OF PUBLIC CORPUS

LEADING REGIONVictoria45 coded records

DOCUMENTED SPAN1861–1925accepted dated records

MAPPED EVIDENCE157.4% geographically mapped

ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Records describe dark, horned, monstrous, or otherwise human-like devil figures appearing in local legends, moralised stories, place names, and reported encounters. The printed term is broad: some uses name a visible figure, while others are figurative or literary. The accepted archive contains 202 records from 1861–1925. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (45), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (134). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade

1860sPEAK 661920s

REGIONAL FIELD

127 region-coded records

62.9%of this figure's records include a coded region

01Victoria4535.4%
02New South Wales2418.9%
03Tasmania2318.1%
04South Australia1612.6%
05Queensland1411.0%
06Western Australia32.4%
07Northern Territory21.6%

One cell equals 1% of the region-coded subset; exact record counts remain listed at right.

SOURCE CONCENTRATION

5 organisations

66.3%held by the leading source

01
Internet Archive
134
02
Project Gutenberg
49
03
Project Gutenberg Australia
11
04
Wikisource
8

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 202