At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its center. ‘Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
Martin Luther Quotes
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
Almost every night when I wake up the devil is there and wants to dispute with me. I have come to this conclusion: When the argument that the Christian is without the law and above the law doesn’t help, I instantly chase him away with a fart.
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
Do as your children do. They go to bed at night and sleep without worries. They don’t care whence they will get soup or bread tomorrow; they know that Father and Mother will take care of it.
