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tings, Dictionary of Demons, 45; Kelly, Who in Hell, 24;
Shah, Occultism, 206, 208.

Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, 119; Von
Worms, Book of Abramelin, 251, 256.

Balphegor

Ba-Maguje

Variations: BAAL-PEOR, Beelphegor, Belfagor
Originally a Moabite deity idol worshiped by
the Israelites, Balphegor is listed in Collin de
Plancy’s Dictionaire Infernale (1863) as the
ARCHDEMON of the Togarini and the sixth of the
evil SEPHIROTHS. Hugo further adds that he is
also the infernal ambassador to France and hides
in the Louvre Museum.
The demon of ingenious discoveries and inventions, Balphegor appears to his summoner as
either a giant phallus or as a beautiful young girl.
He is known to give riches to his summoner, but
only if he likes the person.
There is a medieval legend that tells of how
Balphegor wanted to experience the happiness
and dread of a married couple. He fled back to
Hell in horror after living as a man, glad that

there was no sexual intercourse in Hell.
Sources: Blavatsky, Theosophist, 275; Icon, Demons,
140; Gasparin, Science vs. Modern Spiritualism, 327;
Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology,
315; Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 440.

Balsur
In the Ars Paulina, book three of the Lemegeton, Balsur is one of the twelve chief duke SERVITORS OF AMENADIEL (see AMENADIEL and DUKES
OF HELL). He commands three thousand servitors.
Sources: Belanger, Dictionary of Demons, 59; Guiley,
Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, 7; Peterson,
Lesser Key of Solomon, 62.

Ba-Maguje is a demonic spirit of drunkenness
in the Hausa mythology. He has no physical description but is known to cause alcoholism by
making the victim increasingly thirsty and eventually insensitive to the amount they have consumed.

Sources: Chopra, Academic Dictionary of Mythology,
44; Edgar, Hausa Readings, 61, 63–4; Tremearne, Ban
of the Bori, 428.

Banim Shovavin
Variations: Banim Shovavim
In Judaic lore, banim shovavin (“backsliding
children,” “mischievous sons” or “wayward sons”)
is a type of CAMBION, born of the union between
a human man and a SUCCUBUS. These demons
show up at their father’s deathbed or funeral
claiming to be his son. Seeking their birthright,
the banim shovavin will think nothing of physically harming and eliminating the legitimate heir

if necessary to claim what they consider to be
theirs.
The custom of circling the deceased at the
graveyard came about in the seventeenth century
to prevent demons from being at the graveside.
It is also the reason in some communities that
sons are not permitted to accompany their father’s
body to its grave, in the event that illegitimate
half-brothers show up.

Sources: Dennis, Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic
and Mysticism, 29; Koén-Sarano, King Solomon and the
Golden Fish, 63; Scholem, Kabbalah, 322.

Baphomet

Baltazo
According to Jean Bodin’s Demonomania of
Witches (1581) the demon Baltazo, who possessed
Nicole Aubry of Laon in 1566, had an aversion
to water. According to legend, one evening Bodin
went to dinner with the husband of Nicole Aubry
under the pretense of protecting her from demonic possession. It was noted that during the
meal, he did not drink, thereby Bodin deduced
that demons are averse to water.

Sources: Calmet, Phantom World, 131; Collin de
Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal, 316, Summers; Vampires
in Europe, 230.

Balternis
Variations: BATTERNIS
In the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Balternis is listed as one of the sixty-five SERVITORS
OF KORE AND MAGOTH.
Sources: Ford, Bible of the Adversary, 92; Mathers,

Variations: Baffomet, Bafomen, Bafoment, Bahemet, Baphoinet, Mahomet
It was suggested by Montague Summers that
originally the name Baphomet came from the
Greek words baphe and metis, read together translating as “absorption into wisdom.” However, the
Latin phrase Templi omnium hominum pacis abhas
(“the father of universal peace among men”) is
translated as “Temp. ohp. Ab.” and could also be
a possible origin of the word. The word baphomet
was first documented in twelfth-century France.
Baphomet is not so much a demon as it is the
statue of the alleged god worshiped by the
Knights Templars (properly named Pauperes commilitis Christi et Templi Salomonis).
The statue of Baphomet has been described as
looking like a goat-headed demon; some reports
claim it has a beard while others do not. It has
also been said to be a man’s skull, a statue of a

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