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Michelle King and Robert King, Evil (S01E07), CBS (2019)
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Michelle King and Robert King, Evil (S01E07), CBS (2019)

“In the television show Evil (2019, CBS) in Season 1, Episode 7, the main character receives a drawing in a journal given to her daughter by a demon, and the drawing is a sigil ‘from’ the Lesser Key of Solomon. When they research the sigil, they find it represents a demon called ‘Anatas’ who the show explains as a king of demons. While researching, they show multiple plates from the Doré illustrations from Dante’s Inferno. It is worth noting, however, that while the Lesser Key of Solomon is a real document, the symbols from the show are not exactly the same as the ones from the document, and the Lesser Key of Solomon was written after Dante’s time.”   –Contributor Alex Lee

See a recap of the episode on TV Guide‘s website.

Contributed by Alex Lee (Florida State University ’21)

Sighting Citation:

“Michelle King and Robert King, Evil (S01E07), CBS (2019).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. October 19, 2020. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/robert-king-evil-s01e07-cbs-2019/.