the Imp demon

We were sharing stories tonight about different things we've heard over the years about small sized demonic beings. I decided to look up some info online about small demons, but I came up with very little info. It seems the most common term for one is an Imp. I've had family on both sides with experiences with a little demon or Imp. My father and great aunt have each seen one at different points in their lives without knowing of each others stories. In both cases the description to me of the Imp was the same. It was a small doughboy sized creature. It had similar shape to a human, but it's body didn't have any real features similar to a doughboy. In both cases the demon appeared to them at a very stressful time during their lives. It seemed the little demon was their to antagonize them. It only appeared to them for a couple of seconds, but it was laughing at them as if it was taunting them.

On the other side of my family (my wife's side) they share stories of a little demon in their culture. In their small group of people from Thailand it seems very common to have occourances with these creatures. As a young girl growing up in the states after her family moved here from Thailand she remembers different encounters with an Imp that they believed lived in their house. It was normal to here little footsteps running through the hallway upstairs when they were downstairs. In their culture they would say the small demon would sit on their chest at night and make it hard for them to breathe. Outside of the occourances with this little demon they believed there was other Demons in their house at times. I feel like the Imp is there to stress or antagonize you during uncertain times. Although it may not cause any immediate harm, or it may be seen as a type of jokester; it may be laying the groundwork for more powerful demons to take hold of a human or try to break them completely. I see it as a sort of gateway demon who is set in place to be a thorn in someones side while bigger things are in the works.

for a definition and origin of the Imp look here at Wikipedia