Evil in the World?

Today I think I just want to catalog the devil's appearances in Stones from the Creek.  I will save explanations and interpretations for another day.

The Bolivian miners in "The Sun Shone So Brightly" maintain and make offerings to a statue of a satanic El Tío who guards the mine.

In the story "Turning Water Into Gold" a redheaded stranger appears at Lucy's tent in the construction workers' camp, demanding information about her receipt of government commodities and asking questions about her grandchildren.  She slashes his throat with a pottery shard and he mysteriously disappears.

La Santa de Cabora confronts the Engineer about that statue of El Tío in "Passion Flower" saying,

Your miners ask the Devil for protection every day when they enter his world.  They ask the Devil to return them safely to their homes instead of killing them in cave-ins and they ask the Devil to put more copper in every night for them to find in the morning.

In "Warrior Princess" the marshal and his posse arrive in town at exactly the moment that the Brotherhood chants words about Satan's envy of the Archangel Saint Michael.

Near the conclusion of "Scars" Mingo Sanders is tempted to murder the sheriff.  Instead "he got the hell out of that office.  He got out of that hell of an office.  He did not look back at Satan sitting behind the desk shuffling papers."

And when everything goes to pieces in "Who Could Have Foreseen It?" the narrator, who has alluded all along to the Deceivers role in these events exclaims: "Surely even the Tempter himself could never have imagined it all!"

Is this the literary device they call personification?