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Infernal beings, tempters, destructive spirits and entities explicitly classified as demons within religious or occult systems.
208 documented entities
Demons and Devils
Jewish, Christian and Byzantine demonological traditions
Abyzou is a female childbed demon of late antique and medieval traditions, feared for attacking pregnant women, infants and the vulnerable boundary between birth and…
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Jewish and Christian demonological traditions
Aerial Demons are a collective class of hostile or deceptive spirits believed to inhabit the air between the human world and the higher heavens.
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Aeshma is wrath once it has become an intelligence. He moves through drunken violence, blood-feud, cruelty and the sudden delight of breaking what cannot…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Agares is a duke of the Ars Goetia, associated with languages, the return of fugitives and the unsettling motion that accompanies his arrival.
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Hindu Vaishnava
Aghasura stretches across the road in the form of a serpent so immense that his open mouth resembles a mountain cavern. The cowherd children see…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Aim is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with setting cities afire, causing destruction and giving sharp or witty answers.
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Thelemic and modern occult traditions
Aiwass is the intelligence Aleister Crowley identified as the voice dictating Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, in Cairo over three days…
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Yoruba religious traditions
Ajogun are adversarial forces in Yoruba cosmology associated with death, disease, loss, conflict, paralysis and other conditions that threaten human flourishing.
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Aka Manah enters before the hand moves and before the lie is spoken. He is evil thought made personal: the intelligence that bends perception until…
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Armenian, Caucasian and neighboring traditions
Al is a feared female or androgynous childbed demon of Armenian and neighboring traditions, associated with pregnancy, childbirth and attacks upon mothers and newborn children.
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Hindu and Indian epic traditions
Alambusha is a rakshasa warrior of the Mahabharata who fights for the Kaurava side and becomes a major opponent of Iravan and Ghatotkacha.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Alloces is the fifty-second spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with astronomy, liberal sciences and the provision of familiars.
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Alû enters when the sleeper can see the room but cannot command the body. It has no mouth for speech and no face through which…
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Japanese Buddhist and folk tradition
Amanojaku is the contrary spirit that reads hidden desire and urges the human heart toward the opposite of wisdom. Small in form but intimate in…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Amdusias is the sixty-seventh spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with music, invisible instruments, bending trees and the granting of familiars.
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Amon is a marquis of the Ars Goetia known for revealing past and future and for reconciling friends and foes.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Amy is the fifty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with astrology, liberal sciences, familiars and treasures guarded by spirits.
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Slavic and Russian folk traditions
Anchutka is a small Russian or East Slavic demonic being, remembered as a mischievous and sometimes dangerous imp associated with water, fields, bathhouses and abandoned…
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Hindu Shaiva
Andhaka is born in darkness and grows into a ruler protected by boons. When he encounters Parvati, he desires her without recognizing—or refusing to recognize—the…
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Andras is the sixty-third spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with discord, violent conflict and the destruction of trust between people.
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Andrealphus is the sixty-fifth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with geometry, measurement, astronomy and the transformation of people into birdlike forms.
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Andromalius is the seventy-second and final spirit of the Ars Goetia, an earl associated with returning stolen goods, exposing thieves and punishing concealed wrongdoing.
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Angra Mainyu is the destructive spirit who looks upon the good creation and answers it with corruption. He does not merely inhabit darkness; he produces…
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Apaosha rises against the star Tishtrya and blocks the waters needed by the earth. He is drought given body: a black horse whose strength is…
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Jewish and Christian demonological traditions
Aquatic Demons are a collective class of hostile spirits associated with seas, rivers, wells, marshes, storms and the abyssal waters beneath the ordered world.
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Western grimoire traditions
Ariton, also called Egin or Egyn, is a powerful spirit prince in the Abramelin tradition and related grimoire hierarchies, often listed with Oriens, Paimon and…
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Sumerian and Mesopotamian
Asag rises from the hostile mountain as a presence so diseased that fish die in the rivers and the land itself recoils.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Asmoday is the thirty-second spirit of the Ars Goetia, a great king associated with arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, crafts, invincibility and guarded treasure.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Astaroth is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with hidden knowledge, answers on past, present and future, and wide authority in demonological literature.
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Zoroastrian and Middle Persian
Astwihad waits where the allotted span narrows to its final breath. He casts the noose that separates soul from body and ensures that no mortal…
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Hindu, Vedic and wider South Asian traditions
Asuras are a major class of powerful beings in South Asian traditions whose identity changes from early Vedic sovereignty to later opposition against the devas.
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Enochian and Dee-Kelley traditions
Ave is an angelic intelligence named in the spiritual records surrounding John Dee and Edward Kelley and later associated with the transmission or explanation of…
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Iranian and Manichaean-adjacent traditions
Az is appetite without object and hunger without conclusion. She consumes wealth, food, bodies and attention, yet every act of feeding enlarges the…
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Thelemic and modern occult traditions
Babalon is the central feminine divine figure of Thelemic and related occult traditions, associated with liberated desire, the Cup, the City of the Pyramids, surrender…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Bael is the first spirit of the Ars Goetia, described as a king who teaches invisibility and rules sixty-six legions of spirits.
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Hindu Vaishnava
Bakasura waits beside the waters in the form of an enormous crane, motionless enough to resemble a white mountain. When Krishna approaches with the cowherd…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Balam is the fifty-first spirit of the Ars Goetia, a king associated with answers on past, present and future, wit and invisibility.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Banasura is a powerful asura king, remembered as the thousand-armed son of Bali, a devotee of Shiva and the ruler whose conflict with Krishna begins…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Barbatos is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with understanding birds and beasts, locating hidden treasures and mediating friendship.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Bathin is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with herbs, precious stones and the rapid transportation of men from place to place.
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Israelite, Jewish, Christian and later demonological tradition
Beelzebub stands where worship has soured into mockery and authority has become infestation. His name moves from the shrine of Ekron into the Gospel…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Beleth is a king of the Ars Goetia associated with causing love and strong emotional attachment.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Belial is the sixty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a king associated with dignities, offices, favor, political advancement and a primordial claim of rank.
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Biblical, Jewish and Christian demonological traditions
Belphegor is a demonological figure derived from Baal Peor, a deity condemned in biblical tradition and later transformed into a demon of invention, wealth, sloth…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Berith is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with dignities, precious metals and answers that later traditions warn may mix truth with deception.
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Bes or Bies is a Slavic demonic term and folkloric being associated with unclean spirits, possession, wilderness and the Christianized image of the devil.
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Hindu
Bhasmasura gains a boon that turns touch into annihilation: any head beneath his palm will become ash. The first being he attempts to test is…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Bifrons is the forty-sixth spirit of the Ars Goetia, an earl associated with astrology, geometry, herbs, stones and the movement of the dead.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Botis is an earl and president of the Ars Goetia associated with revealing hidden things and reconciling friends and foes.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Brahmarakshasas are powerful and dangerous spirits in Hindu traditions, commonly understood as learned Brahmins who became rakshasas after grave wrongdoing, abuse of knowledge or failure…
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Jewish and Central European folkloric traditions
Broxa is a rare female night demon or witch-like being in Jewish folklore, described in later sources as a shapeshifter associated with nocturnal attack and…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Buer is a president of the Ars Goetia known for teaching philosophy, logic, ethics, herbs and healing.
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Bushyasta comes before sunrise, when duty is near enough to be heard but the body still belongs to darkness. Her long hand presses the sleeper…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Camio, often called Caim, is the fifty-third spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with animal speech, disputation and knowledge of future things.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Chanda is an asura general in the Devi Mahatmya, paired with Munda and sent by Shumbha to capture the Goddess after Dhumralochana and his army…
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Enochian and Thelemic traditions
Choronzon is the name given in Enochian and Thelemic traditions to a power of dispersion, contradiction and disintegration encountered at the threshold called the Abyss.
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Chort or Czort is a Slavic devil-like being associated with unclean places, temptation, deception, bargains and the dangerous edge between Christian demonology and older folk…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Cimejes, often called Kimaris, is the sixty-sixth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with grammar, logic, rhetoric, hidden things and buried treasure.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Crocell is the forty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with geometry, liberal sciences, warm waters, baths and mysterious aquatic sounds.
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Greco-Roman, Renaissance and ceremonial-magic traditions
Daemon is a ceremonial-magic and philosophical category for a mediating spirit or intelligence, especially one associated with a person, planet, place or operation.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Daityas are a major lineage of powerful beings in Hindu traditions, descended from Diti and the sage Kashyapa and often placed among the principal rivals…
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Hindu, Vedic and Indian traditions
Danavas are a lineage of powerful beings descended from Danu and Kashyapa, frequently associated with asura clans, cosmic opposition and enemies defeated by Indra and…
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Dantalion is the seventy-first spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with thoughts, emotions, secret counsel, love and the visionary presentation of distant persons.
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Decarabia is the sixty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with birds, precious stones and the appearance of avian familiars.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Dhumralochana is an asura commander in the Devi Mahatmya, sent by Shumbha with a vast army to seize the Goddess and drag her by the…
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French occult and grimoire traditions
Djin is the name used in nineteenth-century Western occultism for the elemental ruler of fire, especially in the hierarchy popularized by Éliphas Lévi.
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Druj is not a simple spoken falsehood. She is the Lie as an active power—the distortion that enters thought, speech, body and community until the…
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Zoroastrian and Iranian
Druj Nasu arrives at the instant the living body becomes a corpse. She enters from the north in the form of a foul fly, claiming…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Dushana is a rakshasa commander in the Ramayana, allied with Khara at Janasthana and slain by Rama during the destruction of the fourteen-thousand-strong rakshasa force…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Edimmu are the dead denied the rites, burial or remembrance that would settle them among their ancestors. Hunger drives them back toward the living, where…
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Enochian tradition
Enochian Angels are the collective intelligences recorded in the angelic conversations of John Dee and Edward Kelley and later reorganized into the magical system called…
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Jewish and Central European folkloric traditions
Estries are female shape-shifting beings in medieval Jewish folklore, associated with nocturnal flight, predatory transformation and the drinking of blood.
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Fire Demons are a broad demonological class associated with flame, smoke, scorching wind, furnaces, destructive heat and the theological image of spirits whose bodies are…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Focalor is the forty-first spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with winds, seas, drowning and the destruction of ships.
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Foras is the thirty-first spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with herbs, precious stones, logic, ethics, eloquence and the recovery of lost things.
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Forneus is a marquis of the Ars Goetia associated with rhetoric, languages, favorable reputation and the transformation of enemies into friends.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Furcas is the fiftieth spirit of the Ars Goetia, the catalogue’s knight, associated with philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, palmistry and fire divination.
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Furfur is the thirty-fourth spirit of the Ars Goetia, an earl associated with storms, thunder, lightning, desire and answers concerning secret or divine things.
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Gaap is the thirty-third spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president and prince associated with philosophy, liberal sciences, influence, familiars and rapid passage between kingdoms.
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Sumerian and Mesopotamian
The Gallu rise from below as enforcers of a debt that must be paid in life. They do not bargain, eat or drink; they seize,…
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Japanese modern yokai tradition with roots in older skeletal imagery
Gashadokuro is a colossal skeleton formed from the bones and resentment of those who died in famine or war without burial. It moves after midnight,…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Gello or Gyllou is a female demon of Greek, Byzantine and eastern Mediterranean tradition associated with the death of infants, attacks on pregnant women and…
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Arabic and Middle Eastern folklore
The Ghoul waits where the road leaves habitation and the traveler must choose whether to trust a voice in the dark.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Glasya-Labolas is a president and earl of the Ars Goetia associated with bloodshed, hidden knowledge and, in later reading, terrifying strategic insight.
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Gremory is the fifty-sixth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with past, present and future, hidden treasure and the love of women.
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Gusion is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with answering on past, present and future, clarifying difficult questions and reconciling friendship.
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Haagenti is the forty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with wisdom and the transformation of metals, wine and water.
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Halphas is the thirty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, an earl associated with towers, weapons, ammunition and the movement of soldiers.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Haures, also called Flauros, is the sixty-fourth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with knowledge of past and future, the destruction of enemies…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Hidimba is a forest-dwelling rakshasa in the Mahabharata who discovers the sleeping Pandavas, orders his sister Hidimbi to lure them and is killed by Bhima.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Hidimbi is a rakshasi of the Mahabharata who refuses her brother Hidimba’s command to capture the Pandavas, warns them, marries Bhima and gives birth to…
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Hindu Vaishnava
Hiranyakashipu rules through a boon designed to place his life outside every ordinary category of death. Neither man nor beast, inside nor outside, day nor…
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Hindu Vaishnava
Hiranyaksha descends into the cosmic waters with the strength to challenge the gods and the arrogance to treat the earth as plunder. He drags the…
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Japanese Buddhist, warrior and yokai tradition
Ibaraki-doji survives as the most feared companion of Shuten-doji and as a presence attached to gates, bridges and the capital’s dark edges. In the best-known…
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Islamic and Arabic
Iblis stands in the assembly when the command is given to bow before Adam. Created from fire and consumed by the certainty of his own…
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Islamic and Arabic
An Ifrit is a jinn of exceptional strength, cunning and dangerous independence. The name enters the Qur'anic court of Solomon, where an Ifrit offers to…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Ilvala is an asura or rakshasa remembered for murdering Brahmins through a grotesque deception involving his brother Vatapi, who is transformed into meat, eaten by…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
The incubus is a male night demon in medieval and early modern European demonology, associated with sexual assault, oppressive sleep experiences and fears concerning conception,…
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Hindu epic and South Asian
Indrajit, son of Ravana, earns his title by defeating Indra. He enters war not only as a warrior but as a master of concealment, celestial…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Ipos is an earl and prince of the Ars Goetia associated with wit, boldness and knowledge of things past and future.
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Zoroastrian and Middle Persian
Jahi descends into the darkness where Ahriman lies stunned by the vision of his final defeat. Her promise of corruption restores his will to attack…
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Hindu Shaiva
Jalandhara rises from a spark of Shiva’s wrath cast into the ocean. Raised by the waters and strengthened by the fidelity of his wife Vrinda,…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Jatasura is a rakshasa in the Mahabharata who disguises himself as a Brahmin, lives among the Pandavas, studies their routines and attempts to abduct Draupadi…
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Arabic and Islamic folklore
Jathoom arrives in the narrow interval when the mind has awakened and the body remains behind. The room is visible, the danger is understood and…
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Japanese yokai and regional folk tradition
Jorogumo is a spider that has lived long enough to gain supernatural power and the form of a beautiful woman. She waits near waterfalls, forests…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Kabandha is a monstrous being in the Ramayana, encountered by Rama and Lakshmana as a huge torso with no visible head, a mouth in the…
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Hindu Vaishnava
Kaitabha rises beside Madhu in the waters before creation is secure. The two are born into a universe without land, and their strength grows through…
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Karakondjul is a South Slavic and Balkan winter demon or monstrous spirit associated with the dangerous midwinter period, night roads, chimneys, abandoned places and the…
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Japanese Buddhist and funerary folklore
Kasha descends during funerals as a burning cart or cat-like demon wrapped in storm and flame. Its purpose is the theft of corpses—especially those burdened…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Khara is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Ramayana, ruler at Janasthana, brother of Shurpanakha and leader of the force destroyed by Rama in the…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Kirmira is a forest rakshasa in the Mahabharata, brother of Baka and associate of Hidimba, who confronts the Pandavas during exile and seeks revenge against…
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Hindu epic and South Asian
Kumbhakarna sleeps through seasons beneath Lanka, a giant whose appetite and strength are matched only by the unnatural depth of his slumber. When Ravana’s war…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Labasu is the affliction that does not merely strike and pass. It clings, settles and learns the rhythms of the body until the victim can…
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Thelemic and Typhonian traditions
Lam is the name attached to Aleister Crowley’s enigmatic portrait titled The Way, later developed by Kenneth Grant and Typhonian occultists into a distinct transhuman…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Lamashtu descends where birth has opened a threshold between worlds. She is the daughter of heaven who turns against the order above, entering houses…
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Lamya is a Balkan and South Slavic female monster or demon, often dragonlike, many-headed and associated with caves, water, storms, drought and the devouring of…
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Early Christian and later exorcistic tradition
Legion is a multitude speaking through a single human throat. In the Gospel encounter among tombs, the answer to the demand for a name reveals…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Leraje is a marquis of the Ars Goetia associated with battle, archery and wounds that fester or inflame.
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Ancient Israelite, Jewish, Christian and Western occult tradition
Leviathan is the pressure of the abyss against the ordered world. Scripture remembers it as the untamable creature of the deep, the fleeing and twisting…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Lilin are night demons in Jewish folklore and demonology, often connected with Lilith, sexual dreams, infant danger and spirits that move between human and demonic…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Lucifugous Spirits are a demonological category defined by avoidance of light, daylight, sacred radiance or public visibility.
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Hindu Vaishnava
Madhu arises with Kaitabha in the primeval waters while Vishnu rests upon the cosmic serpent. The pair emerge before the ordered world is secure, carrying…
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Enochian tradition
Madimi is a prominent angelic figure in the Dee–Kelley diaries, frequently appearing as a young girl who converses with Dee in an unusually personal manner.
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Hindu Shakta
Mahishasura rises from the asuric host in the form of a buffalo whose strength shakes mountains and whose ambition reaches beyond the earth. After driving…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Malphas is the thirty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with building towers, revealing enemy intentions and giving familiars.
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Jewish-Aramaic, Christian and later European demonological tradition
Mammon is wealth after it has ceased to be a tool and begun to demand worship. In the Gospel saying, it stands opposite God as…
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Enochian tradition
Mapsama is a named intelligence in the Dee–Kelley angelic records whose later occult profile remains far less developed than Madimi or Nalvage.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Marax, often identified with Morax, is an earl and president of the Ars Goetia associated with astronomy, liberal sciences, herbs and stones.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Marbas is a president of the Ars Goetia associated with hidden things, mechanical knowledge, transformation and the causing or curing of disease.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Marchosias is the thirty-fifth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis described as a powerful fighter who gives answers and commands thirty legions.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Maricha is a rakshasa of the Ramayana whose earlier encounters with Rama culminate in his transformation into the golden deer used to draw Rama and…
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Arabic and Islamic folklore
The Marid belongs to the proud and violently independent powers of the jinn. Later tales place such beings beneath seas, within remote islands and inside…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Mazzikim are harmful or damaging spirits in Jewish tradition, named from a root connected with injury and used across rabbinic, medieval and folkloric sources.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Munda is an asura general in the Devi Mahatmya, paired with Chanda and slain by the fierce goddess Kali or Chamunda during the war against…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Murmur is the fifty-fourth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke and earl associated with philosophy and compelling the souls of the dead to answer.
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Naberius is a marquis of the Ars Goetia associated with rhetoric, arts and the restoration of lost dignities or honors.
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Enochian tradition
Nalvage is a major angelic teacher in the Dee–Kelley records, closely associated with the transmission and explanation of the angelic language and Calls.
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Hindu
Narakasura rules from Pragjyotisha behind layered defenses of mountain, weapon, water, fire and storm. His conquests reach the celestial realms, and thousands of captive women…
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Arabic folklore
Nasnas is a being with half a human body, one arm, one leg and half a face. It laughs, leaps and survives in the borderlands…
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Hindu Shakta
Nishumbha stands beside Shumbha as brother, general and mirror. Together they seize the divine realms, yet Nishumbha carries a more hidden hunger: attachment to the…
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Nochnitsa is a Slavic night spirit or demoness associated with sleepless infants, nightmares, chest pressure and the fear that enters domestic space after dark.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Orias is the fifty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with the virtues of the stars, planetary mansions, transformation and dignities.
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Orobas is the fifty-fifth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a prince associated with truthful answers, dignities, favor and protection from deception by other spirits.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Ose is the fifty-seventh spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with liberal sciences, secret knowledge, transformation and deluded identity.
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Japanese warrior and mountain tradition
Otakemaru rules the passes of Suzuka Mountain, obstructing imperial roads and commanding storms, darkness and supernatural weapons. His fortress belongs to the dangerous…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Paimon is one of the most famous kings of the Ars Goetia, associated with arts, sciences, secret knowledge, dignities and great ceremonial authority.
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Pazuzu enters with the southwest wind, carrying famine, dust and sickness across the land. Yet the same terrifying face was lifted above beds and worn…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Phenex is the thirty-seventh spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis appearing as a phoenix who teaches sciences and poetry through a dangerously beautiful song.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Pisachas are a broad class of malevolent or afflicting beings in Indian religious and literary traditions, associated with darkness, flesh-eating, pollution, possession, disease and places…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Pishachinis are female pisacha spirits in Indian religious, literary and folkloric traditions, associated with night, possession, flesh-eating, seduction, disease and liminal places.
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African and Afro-diasporic traditions
Popobawa is a modern supernatural figure of Zanzibar and coastal Tanzania, reported since the 1960s as a night attacker whose name means bat wing and…
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Slavic and Balkan traditions
Psoglav is a South Slavic dog-headed monster associated with caves, dark regions, iron teeth, corpse-eating and predation upon isolated humans.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Purson is a king of the Ars Goetia associated with hidden things, treasures and knowledge of past, present and future.
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Hindu Vaishnava
Putana enters Gokula wearing the beauty of a noble woman and the scent of maternal care. Beneath the disguise, poison has been placed upon her…
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Arabic folklore
Qutrub wanders among graves and ruins after the living have withdrawn. Its movement is restless, animal and unending, as though night itself has driven a…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Rabisu does not announce itself. It crouches at thresholds, in abandoned passages and beside the road, waiting until movement has committed the victim to a…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Rakshasas are a broad class of powerful beings in Indian religious and literary traditions, especially the Ramayana and Mahabharata, associated with shape-shifting, night, wilderness, warfare,…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Rakshasis are female rakshasas in Indian epic and regional traditions, ranging from predatory shape-shifters to queens, guardians, sisters, mothers and allies.
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Hindu Shakta
Raktabija enters battle carrying a curse of abundance: every drop of blood that strikes the earth gives birth to another warrior equal to him in…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Raum is the fortieth spirit of the Ars Goetia, an earl associated with stealing treasure, destroying dignities and cities, temporal knowledge and reconciliation.
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Hindu epic and South Asian
Ravana rules Lanka from a city of gold, master of weapons, scripture, music and terrible austerity. His ten heads signify an intellect vast enough to…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Ronove is a marquis and earl of the Ars Goetia associated with rhetoric, languages, knowledge and favor with friends or foes.
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Sabnock is the forty-third spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with towers, castles, weapons, familiars and grievous wounds.
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Sallos is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with causing love between men and women.
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Samigina, often written Gamigin, is a marquis of the Ars Goetia associated with liberal arts and with giving an account of souls or spirits connected…
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African and Afro-diasporic traditions
Sasabonsam is a feared forest being in Akan and neighboring West African traditions, commonly described with iron teeth, long limbs and an arboreal habitat from…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Se'irim are hairy or goatlike beings named in biblical and later Jewish interpretation, associated with wilderness, ruins, foreign worship and the uncertain boundary between animal,…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Seere is the seventieth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a prince associated with extraordinary speed, retrieval, transportation and the discovery of theft or hidden treasure.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Shankhasura is a demon or asura of later Puranic and regional traditions associated with the conch, the ocean and in some versions the theft or…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Shax is the forty-fourth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a marquis associated with theft, hidden things and the removal of sight, hearing or understanding.
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Shedim are demons or spirits in Jewish biblical, rabbinic, medieval and folkloric traditions, portrayed as beings sharing qualities with both angels and humans.
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Arabic folklore
Shiqq moves with half a body—one eye, one arm, one leg and half a face—yet crosses the desert with a speed that mocks complete human…
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Hindu Shakta
Shumbha rules after conquering the heavens and taking the treasures, weapons and stations of the gods. When he hears of the Goddess’s beauty, he does…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Shurpanakha is a rakshasi of the Ramayana, sister of Ravana, Khara and other Lanka figures, whose encounter with Rama and Lakshmana initiates the chain leading…
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Japanese Buddhist, warrior and yokai tradition
Shuten-doji rules from a hidden palace on Mount Oe, surrounded by oni, wine vessels and the remains of those taken from the capital. His name…
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Arabic folklore
Si'lat appears at the edge of the caravan light as a woman in need, a guide who knows the hidden road or a beauty standing…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Sitri is a prince of the Ars Goetia associated with inflaming desire and exposing hidden nakedness or erotic vulnerability.
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Stolas is the thirty-sixth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a prince associated with astronomy and the virtues of herbs and precious stones.
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Subahu is a rakshasa of the Ramayana who joins Maricha in attacking the sacrifice protected by the young Rama and Lakshmana under the guidance of…
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Jewish and Christian demonology
Subterranean Demons are a broad demonological class associated with caverns, mines, buried chambers, graves and the hostile regions believed to lie beneath the inhabited earth.
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Jewish and Christian demonology
The Succubus is the female-coded night demon of medieval and early modern Christian demonology, associated with erotic dreams, bodily exhaustion, temptation and the policing of…
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Hindu
Tarakasura gains protection through a condition that appears impossible: only a son of Shiva can kill him, while Shiva remains withdrawn in grief and ascetic…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Tataka is the powerful forest-dwelling rakshasi of the Ramayana whose defeat becomes one of Rama’s first acts of sacred kingship and martial duty.
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Early Christian and later apocalyptic tradition
The Antichrist is the promise of deliverance turned against its source. The earliest letters speak of many antichrists and a spirit already active in the…
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Early Christian apocalyptic tradition
The Beast from the Sea rises already crowned. It emerges from unstable waters bearing many heads, horns and names of blasphemy, as though every conquered…
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Introduction In the shadowy world of demonology, Belphegor stands as one of Hell’s most intriguing princes.He is the embodiment of sloth, temptation, and deceptive genius.Known…
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Introduction In the dark chronicles of demonology, few figures inspire as much dread and fascination as Satan. His name echoes through centuries as a symbol…
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Early Christian apocalyptic tradition
The False Prophet appears less terrible than the Beast it serves. It rises from the earth with horns like a lamb, but when it speaks…
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Early Christian and later demonological tradition
The Prince of the Power of the Air rules no visible country. His dominion lies in the atmosphere through which voices, impulses and unseen influence…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
The Sebettu are seven powers who do not move as individuals but as a single weapon divided into seven bodies. In different texts they may…
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Early Christian teaching tradition
The Seven Spirits More Wicked enter after an apparent victory. The first spirit leaves, wanders through dry places and returns to find the former dwelling…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Tripurasura is the collective or singularized name for the asuric rulers of the three fortified cities destroyed by Shiva as Tripurantaka.
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Japanese mythic, political and yokai tradition
Tsuchigumo means earth-spider, but the name carries several histories: monstrous arachnid, subterranean yokai and an old label applied to peoples who resisted imperial authority.…
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Arabic, Islamic folk-magical, and regional Middle Eastern traditions
Umm al-Subyan approaches pregnancy, birth and infancy as openings into the household. Her title names her as Mother of the Boys, yet the traditions…
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Jewish and early Christian tradition
Unclean spirits are defined by what their presence does to boundaries. They enter, afflict, distort speech and turn human bodies into places from which…
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Japanese regional yokai tradition
Ushi-oni names a family of regional terrors rather than one fixed body. Along coasts, rivers and mountain pools it appears with an ox head joined…
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Ancient Mesopotamian
Utukku names a broad and ancient class of spirits, some protective and others ruinous. The evil Utukku enters like a contaminated wind, passing through…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Vala is the Vedic adversarial power associated with the stone enclosure or cave in which cattle, wealth and the radiance of dawn are hidden until…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Valac is the sixty-second spirit of the Ars Goetia, a president associated with hidden treasure and the discovery, appearance or control of serpents.
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Vapula is the sixtieth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with handicrafts, philosophy and the sciences.
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Vassago is a prince of the Ars Goetia known for revealing things hidden, lost or yet to come, and for answering on the past, present…
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Hindu and Indian traditions
Vatapi is the asura of the famous tale in which he is transformed into food, consumed by unsuspecting guests and called back to life from…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Vine is the forty-fifth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a king and earl associated with hidden things, towers, stone walls, waters and knowledge of past…
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Vedic and Hindu
Vritra is the vast serpent of obstruction, the power that closes the channels of heaven and imprisons the waters behind a body stretched across the…
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Ars Goetia and Solomonic grimoire traditions
Vual is the forty-seventh spirit of the Ars Goetia, a duke associated with affection, friendship and knowledge of past, present and future.
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Japanese snow-country ghost and yokai tradition
Yuki-onna appears during blizzards as a woman of impossible beauty, pale as snow and untouched by the cold. She may glide without footprints, enter shelters…
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Zagan is the sixty-first spirit of the Ars Goetia, a king and president associated with wit, transmutation, altered substances and the transformation of foolishness into…
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Zepar is a duke of the Ars Goetia associated with erotic attraction, the binding of affection and the troubling theme of sterility or barrenness.
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