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Demon

A demonic figure. CATEGORY NOTE: 'figure' is a category this sub-batch introduced. Demon and Zombie were assigned to it by the dispatch but fit none of doc 04's eleven named motif categories - they are neither anatomy nor animal nor object - and inventing a fit would have been worse than naming the gap. Flagged for vibe-ops. Attested by two fetched trade sources which name demons as tattoo subject matter. OPEN QUESTION: neither source states what a demon SYMBOLISES, only that it is depicted, so this row carries no can_symbolize edge.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 7 promoted2 sources · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
figure
Variants
demon head; full demon figure; half-animal half-human
Common styles
realism; blackwork; illustrative
Common themes
demonic; horror; macabre; dark fantasy

Provenance

2 resolved

  • Black and Grey dark horror Tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Under the dark horror hat fall all those subjects that have their origin in the visual imagery related to devilish creatures"; "In western horror, they are demons, they are zombies, they are half-animal and half-human beings, skulls and other subjects often linked to the heavy metal genre". The only fetched source that names undead and demonic subject matter as tattoo categories.

    professional tattoo source · published 2024-07-05 · retrieved 2026-08-28

  • Macabre, grotesque and unsetting tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Macabre, with demonic depictions, hostile nature, hangings and gruesome death scenes"; "The subjects are those of nightmares, visions and demonic interpretations." TRANSCRIPTION NOTE: the article title as published reads "unsetting", transcribed here exactly as the source spells it.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-07-01 · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Associated with · 4

  • → outgoingDemonicSubthemeThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_demon ('demonic'); themes_seed.common_motifs of theme_demonic ('demon'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingHorrorThemeAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_demon ('horror'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingMacabreSubthemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_demon ('macabre'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingDark FantasySubthemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_demon ('dark fantasy'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Frequently used in · 3

  • → outgoingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_demon ('realism'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingBlackworkStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_demon ('blackwork'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingIllustrativeStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_demon ('illustrative'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_dark_horror; source_tattoolife_macabre_grotesque; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.