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Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Who is Asmodeus? Follow the figure from Iranian Aeshma and the Book of Tobit through Ashmedai, Christian demonology, the Goetic Asmoday, and modern fiction.
Aug 25, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Azazel is a wilderness term in Leviticus, a fallen angel in the Book of Enoch, and a name later writers equated with Satan — genuinely different traditions.
Sep 13, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
The goat-headed Baphomet most people recognize was drawn by Éliphas Lévi in 1856. The Templar accusations, Lévi's symbol and later Satanic uses are separate chapters.
Sep 10, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Who is Beelzebub? Trace Baal-Zebub of Ekron through Beelzebul in the New Testament, later demonology, Lord of the Flies, and modern horror.
Aug 25, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
'Demon' means different things across Mesopotamian religion, Jewish and Christian theology, Islamic tradition, grimoires and folklore. Here's how the traditions differ.
Sep 11, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Augustine took incubi seriously as fact in 426 AD. By the Malleus Maleficarum, demonic sexual encounters had become evidence in witch trials. Here's the documented history.
Sep 10, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Who is King Paimon? The real grimoire history behind Hereditary, from the 15th-century Livre des Esperitz to the Ars Goetia, his seal, powers and appearance.
Aug 25, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Leviathan appears in Job, Psalms, and Isaiah as a chaos-serpent tied to older Near Eastern myth. The 'demon of envy' label and its supposed Ars Goetia listing came from a completely separate, much later tradition.
Sep 13, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Who is Lilith, and was she really Adam's first wife? Trace the figure from Mesopotamian lilitu traditions and Isaiah to Ben Sira, Kabbalah and modern myth.
Aug 25, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Who was Pazuzu before The Exorcist? The ancient Mesopotamian wind demon was feared, but his image was also used as protection against Lamashtu.
Aug 24, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Valac, also spelled Valak, appears in European grimoires as a winged child riding a two-headed dragon. Here is how the historical figure differs from The Nun.
Aug 25, 2026
Lore & Explained · Demons & Occult
Zozo, the entity many Ouija users now claim to encounter, is traceable to a single 2009 internet forum post. The claimed centuries-old precedent for the name is disputed even in its own original source.
Sep 11, 2026