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Also known as Apollyon · The Destroyer
In the oldest layers of the record, Abaddon is not a person but a place: Hebrew for 'destruction,' paired with Sheol in Job and…
Also known as Adz? · Az?
A witch-spirit in Ewe traditions, capable of leaving a human host at night and moving as a small point of light or an insect-like…
Also known as ?huitzotl · Water Dog
An aquatic being recorded by Nahua informants in the Florentine Codex: doglike in outline, with slick fur, small pointed ears, and a…
Also known as Ashmedai · Asmoday
The most completely documented demon in the Western record, with a source trail running from scripture to Talmud to grimoire. In the…
Also known as Ashtaroth · The Treasurer of Hell
A Great Duke of the Goetia, appearing as a 'hurtful angel' riding an infernal dragon, a viper in his right hand — and the possessor of…
Also known as Tik-Tik · Wak-Wak
The aswang is not one creature but a family of them: a shapeshifter that lives as an ordinary villager by day — quiet, polite, keeps…
Also known as Baal · Baël
The first spirit of the Goetia: a king ruling in the east, commanding sixty-six legions, appearing — per Weyer and the Lesser Key —…
Also known as Bean Sídhe · The Keening Woman
A herald, not a hunter. The banshee is a female spirit bound to the old Irish families — traditionally those with Ó and Mac names —…
Also known as Ba'al Zebub · Lord of the Flies
A god demoted to a demon, and the second name in nearly every hierarchy of Hell. Ba'al Zebub — 'lord of the flies,' most scholars read…
Also known as Baal-Peor · The Demon of Sloth
Another god made demon — Baal-Peor of Moab, whose worship seduces Israel in Numbers 25 — refiled by the demonologists as Belphegor,…
Also known as Old Shuck · The Hellhound of East Anglia
A spectral black hound the size of a calf, with a single burning eye — or two, in the accounts that end worse. Shuck is the definite…
Also known as BEKs · Black-Eyed Kids
Children between six and sixteen years of age who appear at doors and car windows at night, asking to be let in. Their speech is…