In People of the Lie he provides identifying characteristics of an evil person, whom he classified as having a character disorder. Peck describes in some detail several cases involving his patients. Scott Peck, an American psychiatrist, wrote two books on the subject, People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil and Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption. Psychologist Wilhelm Wundt remarked that "among the activities attributed by myths all over the world to demons, the harmful predominate, so that in popular belief bad demons are clearly older than good ones." Sigmund Freud developed this idea and claimed that the concept of demons was derived from the important relation of the living to the dead: "The fact that demons are always regarded as the spirits of those who have died recently shows better than anything the influence of mourning on the origin of the belief in demons." Some scholars believe that large portions of the demonology of Judaism, a key influence on Christianity and Islam, originated from a later form of Zoroastrianism, and were transferred to Judaism during the Persian era. In the contemporary Western occultist tradition (perhaps epitomized by the work of Aleister Crowley), a demon (such as Choronzon, the Demon of the Abyss) is a useful metaphor for certain inner psychological processes (inner demons), though some may also regard it as an objectively real phenomenon. Demons are still feared as a popular superstition, largely due to their alleged power to possess living creatures. The supposed existence of demons remains an important concept in many modern religions and occultist traditions. The Hellenistic "daemon" eventually came to include many Semitic and Near Eastern gods as evaluated by Christianity. The Western medieval and neo-medieval conception of a demon derives seamlessly from the ambient popular culture of Late (Roman) Antiquity. This was then inherited by the Koine text of the New Testament. It was no longer beautiful, it was infested." The term had first acquired its negative connotations in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which drew on the mythology of ancient Semitic religions. Far into the Byzantine period Christians eyed their cities' old pagan statuary as a seat of the demons' presence. By the early Roman Empire, cult statues were seen, by pagans and their Christian neighbors alike, as inhabited by the numinous presence of the gods: "Like pagans, Christians still sensed and saw the gods and their power, and as something, they had to assume, lay behind it, by an easy traditional shift of opinion they turned these pagan daimones into malevolent 'demons', the troupe of Satan. In fact, εὐδαιμονία eudaimonia, (literally good-spiritedness) means happiness. The Greek terms do not have any connotations of evil or malevolence. To distinguish the classical Greek concept from its later Christian interpretation, the former is anglicized as either daemon or daimon rather than demon. The Greek conception of a daimōns notably appears in the works of Plato, where it describes the divine inspiration of Socrates. Daimōn most likely came from the Greek verb daiesthai (to divide, distribute). If the possibility of dating a scary monster, like a vampire or succubus, is high on your list of fears, then you should know what's out there.The Ancient Greek word δαίμων daimōn denotes a spirit or divine power, much like the Latin genius or numen. If you’re wondering whether or not you’re dealing with a real-life succubus, all you have to do is check out these helpful tips to determine if your girlfriend, wife, or significant other is secretly a demon swiping your soul. Although there's always the possibility that you're just dating a psychopath. If this sounds familiar, then you might be unwittingly in a relationship with a succubus, and if you’re not careful you can end up as a withered husk of a human with no soul. Real succubus encounters involve a sexy demon creature that latches onto you and pulls out your essence, one late-night encounter at a time. Some people manage to have long-term relationships with their succubi while their souls are slowly sucked dry. For the uninitiated, succubi are demons who traditionally appear to men during the night to take their souls with the help of sexual energy, but has anyone ever had a real succubus experience? Of course they have, but they’re not as harrowing as you’d think.