Abstinency and Indulgence:The Belief in Devil and Capitalism in Modern Western Europe

There appeared the Belief in Devil,a kind of new wizard theory in the early periods of modern Western Europe.The belief expresses two polarized aspects of early capitalism:abstinency and indulgence.The figure of devil represents abstinence and the various rites of the gathering of wizards,self-indulgence.The comparison of abstinency and indulgence was fully incarnated in the Belief in Devil of early capitalism.