daeva

• A Persian div , often named in the Avesta,[1] Aeschma-daeva , the “div of concupiscence,” adopted by the Jews under the name of Asmodeus,[2] became the cause of all the hysterical afflictions of women. —  The Life of Jesus
• Indian _diva_, the general term for a god, is in Persian the designation of a wicked spirit, _daeva_. —  Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
• The Persian employment of _daeva_ for 'evil spirit' may be explained as a protest not against Indian gods, but against the deities of their own land; so the Hebrew prophets or their editors apply opprobrious names, "no-god" and other terms, to deities regarded by them as inadequate. —  Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
• Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has shown.] [Footnote 23: Compare the _kavis_ and _ugijs_ (poets and priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names in the Avesta, like _daeva_ = _deva_. —  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
• Weber thinks that this implies close acquaintance with Persian worship, a sort of tit-for-tat; for the Hindu would in that case call the holy spirit, _ahura_, of the Persian a devil, just as the Persian makes an evil spirit, _daeva_, out of the Hindu god, _deva_. —  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

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