I read this tongue-in-cheek short story during the '60's. For some reason the main character is being harassed by a demon. He discovers that he can get rid of the creature - or cage it or something - by drawing a pentagram on the floor and keeping the thing outside it. No matter how small the hero draws the pentagram the demon shrinks itself to fit. Somehow he manages to draw a pentagram on the demon's body and it shrinks out of sight.
asked May 28, 2016 at 3:31
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2“I am looking for a story about a shrinking demon” — aren’t we all!– Paul D. WaiteCommented May 28, 2016 at 14:00
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Hi Lee! Any feedback on Organic Marble's answer? Or does the search continue? :)– JenayahCommented Oct 3, 2018 at 0:26
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Larry Niven's Convergent Series is the story you seek.
Eventually he'd look down and see the pentagram. Part of it was in plain sight. But it wouldn't help him..[omission]...I had drawn it on his bulging belly.
answered May 28, 2016 at 3:33
