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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 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 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 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 The Wheel President
The healer of the Goetia, and the entry that most complicates the popular idea of what a 'demon list' contains. Buer is a Great…
Also known as Lilītu · The Night Demoness
The night demoness whose file spans four thousand years. She begins as the Mesopotamian lilītu — night spirits that trouble sleep and…
Also known as King Paimon · Paymon
A great king of the Goetia, 'very obedient unto Lucifer,' commanding two hundred legions — and the tradition's most theatrical…
Also known as King of the Wind Demons
The king of the lilu wind demons of Assyro-Babylonian tradition: canine face, bulging eyes, scaled body, four wings, scorpion tail,…
Also known as Stolos · The Crowned Owl
A Great Prince of the Goetia commanding twenty-six legions, who appears first as a raven — 'a mighty raven at first, but after taketh…
Also known as Valak · Ualac
A Great President of the Goetia commanding thirty legions, whose historical entry is brief and oddly gentle: he appears as 'a poor…