I’d still knock my toys around as enthusiastically as the little boys who lived up the street, but at playtime’s end, something shifted in my psyche. Admittedly, I related to these objects a bit differently from my guy pals. I preferred toy soldiers, plastic dinosaurs, Briar horses, Transformers, etc.

When I was wee, I didn’t play with Barbies. Several more frisky demons and (paraphrased) descriptions from Demonographia after the jump. He has also been known, on occasion, to “get Yiffy wid’ it.” Furfur sustains marriage, can cause thunderstorms, and speaks on abstract things. He appears as an angel or a stag with a flaming tail and speaks only lies unless enclosed in a triangle. In fact, they’re still pretty pricey, but you can download the entire book in PDF form (in fairly good quality).įurfur: a count of hell who rules 26 legions. Weird, wild stuff.įor a while, proper reprints of the grimoire were very difficult to obtain. Jarrault.ĭid you know that in addition to vomiting flames and commanding forty legions (most of these dudes seem to command an awful lot of legions… or, alternately, inflict lesions), the Egyptian deity Amon has the power to reconcile differences between friends? Or that Ukobach the Inferior, a lesser minion who maintains the oil in the infernal boilers of hell, also probably invented deep-frying? Is that wild? That is wild! Did you know that? I did not know that. Louis Breton drew the set of 69 illustrations of various demons as described by Collin de Plancy, which were then engraved by one M. Several of the most fascinating and grotesque beasts contained therein are from a series of 19th century illustrations produced for Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy‘s Dictionnaire Infernal, aka, Demonographia. His favorite color is chartreuse.Įven if you’re not remotely interested in the occult, chances are you’ve been exposed to at least a few of the critters compiled in that hugely influential Dover collection, Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures it’s been kicking around for decades. Belzebuth is also known to rid harvests of flies.

Milton calls him foremost in power and crime after Satan, and most demonographers call him supreme chief of hell.

Belzebuth (aka Belzebub, Beelzebuth), whose name means “lord of the flies” is prince of demons according to the Scriptures.

Japanese toy dictionnaire infernal