Evil has many names: <i>davol, natemago, dajeskraja</i> (on the issue of macedonian demononyms)

According to the Christian and folk religious beliefs, the devil is the embodiment of evil and the cause of misery in the world, and therefore his name is subject to taboo. The material from Macedonian fairy tales, folk narratives and Christian legends testifies to the numerous euphemisms that are used in this meaning. In addition to proper names and borrowed nominations (vrag, bes; sotona, đavol etc.), as well as figurative folk attributes (rogatiot, kuciot, ednonogiot, nečestiviot, crveniot etc.), among the nomination models there are also examples of word fusion that go back to the formulas of curse and verbal amulet (natemago, daeskrajata). This article conciders the designations of devil in the Macedonian language, the stages of the origin of demononyms, the transformation of their meanings and functioning in contemporary Macedonian usage.