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The subject of this article is to introduce the reader to the temporary exhibition entitled “Diabły” during the 2024 season at the Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park. The exhibition was open from 19th May, located in the building of a wooden 18th-century manor house “lamus” (przyp. tłum. “the storage building”). The exhibition, featuring around one hundred sculptures, presents the figure of the devil as interpreted by forty Polish non-professional sculptors. The exhibits come from the private collection of Wojciech Błachowiak and the collections of the Museum in Łęczyca, the Maria Znamierowska-Prüff er Ethnographic Museum in Toruń and the Stanisław Staszic District Museum in Piła. The collected sculptures were presented in four thematic groups, covering ways of representing the figure of the devil, various areas of the devil’s influence on man, the place of the devil in proverbs and folk customs, and the correlation of the devil and music. The individual thematic groups were commented on in relation to the content of Polish folklore in the fi eld of Polish folk demonology.