Devil: Many philologists declare that the name of God is derived from Good Spirit, shortened by long use to "good" or "god." In the Anglo-Saxon the word god' is used in the sense of "good" as well as to designate the Almighty, and it is only known by the context which is intended. By a similar process, Satan may have been known as the Evil Spirit, which shortened by usage would become the Evil, or th'evil, easily corrupted into Devil. In Anglo-Saxon the word yfel, "evil," is suggestive of deoful, "the devil." The

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