In past articles, we’ve reported on controversial NAR prophet Jennifer LeClaire teaching on the “sneaky squid,” along with other false apostles, prophets and demonslayers exorgeting all manner of weird theologies, practices and demons from the Bible.
Yes, EXORgesis.
But before we get to Vlad Savchuk’s latest contribution to the NAR’s ever-expanding demonological zoo, we need some terminology. Because what Savchuk is doing below is so spectacular that ordinary eisegesis doesn’t quite capture the whole performance.
ZOOMATOLOGY
Zoomatology — the speculative practice of deriving supposed spirits, spiritual entities, or spiritual characteristics from the anatomy, behaviour, or attributes of animals.
zōon (ζῷον) — animal/living creature | pneuma (πνεῦμα) — spirit | -logia (-λογία) — study/discourse
In other words: take an animal, spiritualise its characteristics, and construct a demonology from them. An octopus has eight arms? Wonderful. Apparently we now have eight demonic “tentacles.”
EXORGESIS
Exorgesis — the practice of reading deliverance-ministry doctrines, demonic diagnoses, “open doors,” curses, named spirits and exorcistic techniques into biblical texts that do not actually teach them.
In other words, zoomatology constructs the creature and exorgesis makes the bible authenticate it.
DAWN HILL PUBLICLY REBUKES VLAD SAVCHUK
Dawn Hill of The Lovesick Scribe recently publicly rebuked Savchuk’s latest excursion into Zoomatology:
“So, you decided to exegete the anatomy of an octopus and then to insert it into Scripture so that you can teach people about a demonic entity that doesn’t exist?
The gospel of Jesus Christ is sufficient to set the captive free. You, sir, are a wolf.”
She’s not exaggerating. Here is Savchuk’s post. We encourage readers to read the entire thing before considering our observations below:
Signs You Have an Octopus Spirit
What is the Octopus Spirit? This is a spirit that causes you to feel like your mind is wrapped, squeezed, and pulled in many directions at once. It clouds your thinking, steals your peace, and tries to choke out your spiritual life with lies that sound like your own voice.
The Bible does not use the word ‘octopus’ but it does describe this type of mental attack and calls us to take every thought captive to obey Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:4-5)
So here are 8 points, or ‘tentacles,’ that can show if you are being oppressed by this spirit.
Tentacle #1: You have intrusive thoughts that you did not invite.
For example:
– You are worship and a blasphemous thought flashes in.
– You are driving and a thought tells you to hurt yourself.
– You are holding your child and a dark image appears.
You feel sick inside and wonder what is wrong with you. James 1:14 shows the enemies entices and whispers. You are not the thoughts you did not invite.
Tentacle #2: Every thought turns hopeless.
You make one small mistake and your mind jumps to ‘it is over.’ You have one bad day and feel, ‘this is who I am forever.’
If your thoughts keep ending in, ‘there is no point,’ that is a sign of mental oppression.
Tentacle #3: You have mental loops that don’t stop.
– You replay old conversations nonstop.
– You reheard disasters that have not happened.
– You wake up at night and relive things you cannot change.
You are not processing. You are in torment. The octopus spirit keeps your mind spinning without peace.
Tentacle #4: Your thoughts become your identity.
You used to think, ‘I am struggling with fear.’ Now you say, ‘I am a fearful person.’ You used to think, ‘I am tempted by lust.’ Now you call yourself a lustful person.
The Bible tells you to take thoughts captive, not to wear them as your name. When a repeated thought becomes how you describe yourself, it turns into a stronghold.
Tentacle #5: Prayer feels heavy and numbing feels easy.
The Bible feels boring, worship feels hollow, and prayer feels dry and heavy. But scrolling, eating, drinking, and binge watching feel effortless.
This can be spiritual warfare that pulls you away from what nourishes your spirit and drags you toward what only numbs you.
Tentacle #6: You hide and isolate.
You start thinking things like:
– ‘Do not tell anyone.’
– ‘They will judge me.’
– ‘No one will understand.’
– ‘Handle your problems alone.’
This spirit thrives in secrecy and isolation. The Bible calls us to confess our sins to one another and pray for each other to be healed. (James 5:16)
When you think your thoughts into the light, the grip of this spirit begins to loosen.
Tentacle #7: You live in mental dog and double mindedness.
You feel constant fog in your mind and struggle to focus, pray, and make decisions. Some days you feel close to God, but other days you feel numb and distant.
That fog is not from your Father. It is the enemy clouding the water so you cannot see clearly.
Tentacle #8: You start giving yourself permission to sin.
At first the voice in your head tempts you. Then it starts to sound like permission.
– ‘You deserve it.’
– ‘Just do it this once.’
– ‘God will understand.’
– ‘It’s not that serious.’
When your own thoughts start writing permission slips and signing God’s name on them, this is a sign that this spirit is at work.
If you see these signs in your life, it does not mean things are hopeless. It means the Holy Spirit is bringing this into the light so Jesus can set you free.
Here is what to do:
– Come to Jesus and confess that your mind belongs to Him.
– Identify the lies and name them out loud as lies.
– Replace lies with the truth of Scripture.
– Repent of any open doors and invite Jesus to close them.
– In the name of Jesus, command every spirit tied to these lies to leave.
– Refuse isolation and share honestly with a trusted, mature believer.
– Begin to renew your mind daily in the word of God.
You do not have to live with this forever. In Christ there is real freedom.
Source: Vlad Savchuk, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/100044442159225/posts/1616900736467983/, August 21, 2026. (Accessed August 22, 2026.)
Perhaps the most extraordinary piece of exorgesis occurs under Savchuk’s very first tentacle:
“James 1:14 shows the enemies entices and whispers.”
There’s just one small problem. James 1:14 says the opposite:
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
So Savchuk claims the enemy entices. But James says his own desire entices. In other words the demon isn’t hiding somewhere in the Greek, Savchuk imported what was carrying with him into the text. Scripture certainly teaches that Satan tempts. But James 1:14 isn’t teaching that “the enemy” whispers intrusive thoughts into your mind. James explicitly locates the enticement here in the person’s own desire.
And the octopus itself has an interesting pedigree.
PIGS, PARLOURS AND OCTOPUSES
Frank and Ida Mae Hammond’s influential deliverance manual Pigs in the Parlor contains a remarkable section titled “The Battle for Community and Country.” Hammond begins with Daniel’s “prince of Persia” and extrapolates from it that Satan has assigned:
“a powerful demon ruler over every nation of the world, and, in turn, over every city and community.”
Hammond then claims that God revealed the particular ruling spirit over his own community through a vision:
“The vision revealed a large, octopus-like creature hovering over the community.”
Across its head was written “Jealousy.” Its tentacles supposedly represented strife, criticism, envy, backbiting, greed, gossip, selfishness and covetousness. Here is the relevant segment:
The Battle for Community and Country
The angel that visited Daniel reported that he had encountered and fought with “the prince of Persia”, meaning the ruling demon potentate over that nation. We see this as evidence that Satan has assigned a powerful demon ruler over every nation of the world, and, in turn, over every city and community.
The prince spirit over the community which I pastored was revealed through a vision from God. The vision revealed a large, octopus-like creature hovering over the community. Across its head was written “Jealousy” tentacles reached down and were entwining and crushing every facet of community life-churches, schools, businesses, homes, social life, government, recreation and personal relationships. The tentacles represented strife, criticism, envy, backbiting, greed, gossip, selfishness and covetousness.
As we began to reflect upon the vision we could see how true and accurate it was. Jealousy and all its helpers were holding the community in a vise-like grip. When I first moved into that community to begin my ministry, two pastors came together to visit me and tell me that I was not needed nor wanted. They invited me to leave on the basis that their churches were adequate to minister to the community. The spirit of jealousy was thus showing itself among the churches. God showed me through the vision that I was not fighting fellow ministers, but fighting the “principalities and powers” of the devil.
Hope for our communities and nation does not lie in social and governmental programs. Neither does it lie in education or science. Our problems are basically spiritual, God has given us spiritual weapons and resources for victory. The church has the answer. It must take the offensive against the ranks of demonic powers while there is yet time. How is this done? By wrestling with these powers in spiritual warfare. Vocalize your position in Christ and your authority over these demon forces just as you would in personal warfare. Praise God, Christians everywhere are
learning these techniques of spiritual battle. A revival is being loosed!
Source: Frank and Ida Mae Hammond, Pigs In The Parlor: The Practical Guide to Deliverance, https://www.divinerevelations.info/pdf/pigs_in_the_parlor_by_frank_ida_mae_hammond.pdf, Published 1973. pg. 31-2.
We are not claiming Savchuk copied Hammond. Savchuk’s eight “tentacles” are different, and direct dependence would need to be demonstrated. But it is certainly worth observing that an octopus-like demonic entity whose eight appendages correspond to eight forms of spiritual oppression was already swimming around deliverance theology more than fifty years ago.
The Hammonds got their octopus from an alleged vision. Savchuk admits the Bible doesn’t mention his. And yet Christians are still being given.
Perhaps the biblical text needs delivering from the demonslayer.
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