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door of your home the words “Mêltô, Ardu,
Anaath.”

Sources: Ashe, Qabalah, 52; Belanger, Dictionary of
Demons, 71; Conybeare, Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol.
11, 38.

Bidda
From the demonology of the Hausa people of
West Africa comes the demon of stiffness, Bidda
(“to search”). A specific magical dance is performed to determine the cause and the cure of
the demonic attack. Usually an animal sacrifice
is required, typically a bird of a specific gender
and color.

STOPHELES.

He has the rank of both count and
earl and commands either twenty-six or sixty legions, sources vary (see COUNTS OF HELL and
EARLS OF HELL). Appearing as a hideous demon,
Bifrons is a nocturnal demon who is most powerful during the month of November. This demon
is known to move bodies from one grave to another and cause corpse candles to float above
graves. Bifrons, like many FALLEN ANGELS, is
also a teacher; he teaches astrology, geometry,
gemology, herbology, and numerous other arts
and sciences. He has dominion over the planet
Jupiter.

Sources: Knappert, African Mythology, 106; Schön,
Dictionary of the Hausa Language, 23; Tremearne, Ban
of the Bori, 489.

Sources: De Laurence, Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia,
37; Godwin; Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia, 373;
Icons, Demons, 141; McLean, Treatise of Angel Magic,
52; Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft, 223.

Bidiel

Biga

In the Theurgia Goetia, second book of the
Lemegeton, Bidiel, an AERIAL DEVIL, is one of
the eleven WANDERING PRINCES (see PRINCES
OF HELL). He commands twenty primary dukes,
two hundred inferior dukes, and numerous servants. Most powerful during the first hour of the
day, Bidiel appears in an attractive human form.
Like all the WANDERING PRINCES, he and his
court are constantly on the move; they never stay
in any given place for more than a year.
Sources: Guiley, Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, 28; Peterson, Lesser Key of Solomon, 106;
Trithemius, Steganographia, 81.

Bies, plural: Biesy
Variations: Bes; plural: Bies; Bisytysia (“to go
mad”); Bisy (Ukrainian and always plural)
In Slavic mythology Bies (“Demon”) was originally an evil spirit. Later he was associated with

the DEVIL after the introduction of Christianity
to the region.
Sources: Barford, Early Slavs, 192; Maberry, Cryptopedia, 232.

Biffant
Biffant is the povost for Dispater. He commands only one legion and has the power of possession. He and his legion possessed Denise de
la Caille in Beauvais, France, in 1623. He was
made to write out, using his claw as a pen, the
verbal process of exorcisms.

Sources: De Claremont, Ancient’s Book of Magic, 122;
Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology,
168; Spence, Encyclopedia of Occultism, 68.

Bifrons
Variations: Bierous, Bifrous, Bifrovs
A FALLEN ANGEL, Bifrons is the demon of
death and is under the command of MEPHI-

Variations: Beqa
Biga (Amharic for “good person”) was originally the name of KASBEEL, one of the FALLEN
ANGELS. As soon as this angel was created, he
turned away from God, so his name was changed
to Kasbeel, which means “he who lies to God.”
Sources: Davidson, Dictionary of Angles, 165; Webster, Encyclopedia of Angels, 107.

Bihiri Sanniya
In Sinhalese demonology Bihiri Sanniya is the
demon of deafness and causes in humans illnesses
that can render a person deaf. Masks of him are

made to look like a screaming face with a cobra
emerging out of one eye and hands covering its
ears. The cobra is emerging from the eye because
it is believed that since the snake has no ears it
must “hear” with its eyes. Bihiri Sanniya is susceptible to the DAHA-ATA SANNIYA.

Sources: Goonatilleka, Masks and Mask Systems of
Sri Lanka, 30, 37; Scott, Formations of Ritual, 255;
Wirz, Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon, 44.

Bile
Originally the Celtic god of Hell, Bile is
named as the demon of courtesy in the Satanic
bible.

Sources: Bailey, Spiritual Warfare, 94; Hopkins, History of Religions, 132; Susej, Demonic Bible, 77.

Bileth
Variations: BELETH, Bilet, BYLETH
In Enochian lore Bileth is named as one of the
seventy-two SPIRITS OF SOLOMON and is one of
the four chief demons that were imprisoned by
the king in his brass vessel through the magic of
his signet ring. However, it is from Johann
Wierus’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (False
Monarchy of Demons, 1583) that we learn much