Medieval Demonology - a precursor to Role Playing Games?

The other day I was surfing wikipedia and I stumbled upon one of those articles that has way more detail than necessary.  Actually, to be more precise, it is a series of articles.  A series of articles on demons.  Apparently, some guys in Medieval Europe wrote a bunch of books on the subject, and at least one of these has pretty much been transcribed onto wiki, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, printed in 1577.  I don't think this kind of stuff was religious study as it appears; I think it's the equivalent of playing Dungeons and Dragons back in the day.  I mean just look at this stuff:

The bear looks embarrassed.

Lies my teachers told me

Not really sure where this belongs, but I wanted to get this off my chest for quite some time.  I want to talk about an outright lie that my teacher told me.  A lie that, while seemingly insignificant, is a part of a larger, more systematic lie.  The lie that my teacher told me was this:

"Napoleon Bonaparte shot the nose off the sphinx in Egypt because he was racist and didn't want people to see its black African features"

For years, I believe this to be true, but thanks to the internets, I found out that it was an out right lie.  Here is a picture of the Sphinx made in 1755:

Here it is from another angle:

Notice anything?  The nose is already gone by this time and it is many years before Napoleon even got there in 1789.

Judo - a real rough and tumble martial art

Tokyo Zombie - a movie about zombies and Jujutsu

I've been studying Judo now for 9 months and I am really enjoying the workout.  I had previous martial arts experience with kung fu and hapkido, but nothing prepared me for the rough and tumble world of Judo.  I really wish I had gotten into it in my youth, because now I'm an old man and my body breaks more easily.  I was always interested in Judo because it seems that just about every modern marital arts incorporates some aspect of Judo - Russian Sambo, Israeli Krav Maga, modern MMA, etc.  There's gotta be something to it if everyone wants to incorporate it.  I finally decided to start training in Judo after watching Tokyo Zombie, which is really a love letter to Judo/Jujutsu.  I bet you're wondering why I have a that picture up there, and now you know.