The article Archetype of devil from history to fiction suggests a reactivation of historical and artistic representations of the devil from the twelfth century when the devil had a material representation in the folk imagination and culminating in the XXI century when it appears in multiple situations and representations, from the trivializing myth of evil to the fascination of the evil being.The author provides a overview of literary and historical metamorphoses of the devil namely folk aspects, parodic image, humanized hypostasis, demonology, devil woman, a demon subjected to the divine will, internalizing of the demonic concept, devil and childhood reading, political representation of the demon.