Alû
Alû enters when the sleeper can see the room but cannot command the body. It has no mouth for speech…
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Culture or Region: Ancient Mesopotamian
Edimmu
Edimmu are the dead denied the rites, burial or remembrance that would settle them among their ancestors. Hunger drives them…
Read entryLabasu
Labasu is the affliction that does not merely strike and pass. It clings, settles and learns the rhythms of the…
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Lamashtu descends where birth has opened a threshold between worlds. She is the daughter of heaven who turns against the…
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Pazuzu enters with the southwest wind, carrying famine, dust and sickness across the land. Yet the same terrifying face was…
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Rabisu does not announce itself. It crouches at thresholds, in abandoned passages and beside the road, waiting until movement has…
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The Sebettu are seven powers who do not move as individuals but as a single weapon divided into seven bodies.…
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Utukku names a broad and ancient class of spirits, some protective and others ruinous. The evil Utukku enters like a…
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