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** In Genesis 3, the serpent tempts Eve with the knowledge of good and evil. His questions reveal that Eve is second-guessing whether God has her best interests at heart.
** In Matthew 4, Mark 1 and Luke 4, Jesus goes into the wilderness and is tempted by Satan. The devil presents him with three successive challenges, appealing to his appetite (turn this stone into bread), his vanity (jump off the temple so people will see God catch you), and his sense of his own destiny (worship me and I will give you all the kingdoms of the world). Jesus refuses each of the tests, thus proving that he is worthy to begin his ministry.
* Ditto in [[Useful Notes/Buddhism|Buddhism]] -- the last barrier to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|enlightenment]] that Siddhartha Gautama faced was Mara, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of temptation. Less Demon and more Trickster, Buddha simply touched the Earth to remind him that there was still dirt under his feet and ignored the hallucinations of women that he sent him. Last seen as a giant penis-chariot in [[Persona 4]].
* Ivan Karamazov dreams one of these in ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]].'' Doubly perturbing for him, as he's a committed skeptic.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry has these little chit-chats with alarming regularity. His "inner voice", Lea, Lasciel, Nicodemus...
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