v_public_adversarial_beings: 51

Demons, adversarial figures, and hostile entities across traditions.

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rowid	entity_id	canonical_name	tradition	category	primary_domains	short_note
51	ENT_ISL_DIV	Div	Islamic	Adversarial being	malevolence; monstrous strength; opposition to heroes	The div (Persian dev), a malevolent demonic being of Persianate Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian tradition (cf. the Avestan daeva), assimilated to the jinn in Islamic-era folklore and prominent in epics such as the Shahnameh.