Early depictions of the devil don’t show him with horns and hooves. For instance, the devil is a blue angel in a 6th century mosaic at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.

Hutton said that the association between Pan and the devil came from around the 19th century, when new pagan beliefs challenged the dominant Christian beliefs in Europe, leading to goat-like horns.