malefic · 44 entities
Burns & Slays
Kills by fire, sword or pestilence.
Held by
- Disputed28
- Infernal15
- Fallen1
Attributed across 12 cultures
Which spirits are credited with it?
Each card names the texts that make the attribution. Where several texts credit the same figure with the same office, that is worth more than any one of them saying so alone.
Adramelech
Aeshma
Persian
Agni
Vedic
Aim
Alastor
Anat
Canaanite
Andras
Angra Mainyu
Persian
Ares
Greek
Azazel
Balor
Celtic
Behemoth
Fenrir
Norse
Focalor
Gadreel
Glasya-Labolas
Haures
Huitzilopochtli
Mesoamerican
Jormungandr
Norse
Kali
Vedic
Leviathan
Lugh
Celtic
Moloch
Mot
Canaanite
Nergal
Mesopotamian
Poseidon
Greek
Resheph
Canaanite
Rudra
Vedic
Sekhmet
Egyptian
Set
Egyptian
Shango
Yoruba
Sobek
Egyptian
The Asag
Mesopotamian
Its heat makes the fish boil in the rivers.
The Dagda
Celtic
The Fomoire
Celtic
The Ghul
The Gigantes
Greek
The Nephilim
The giants turn on the men whose labour they had consumed.
Tsukuyomi
Japanese
Typhon
Greek
Wadjet
Egyptian
Xaphan
Yamata-no-Orochi
Japanese
Zahhak
Persian
The texts that attribute this power
Oldest first. An office claimed by one late grimoire and an office claimed across two thousand years are different kinds of claim.
Lugal-e (Ninurta and the Asag)
Anonymous; Sumerian composition · c. 2100 BCE · Sumerian
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian
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Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
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The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets)
Anonymous; recovered at Ras Shamra · c. 1400-1200 BCE · Ugaritic
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The Avesta
Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan
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Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
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The Oresteia
Aeschylus; tr. E. D. A. Morshead · 458 BCE · Ancient Greek
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Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
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1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)
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Devi Mahatmya
Anonymous; part of the Markandeya Purana · c. 400-600 CE · Sanskrit
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Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
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Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)
Ō no Yasumaro · 712 CE · Old Japanese
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Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle
Anonymous Irish monastics · 11th c., from older oral material · Middle Irish
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The Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
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Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
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Dictionnaire Infernal
Jacques Collin de Plancy · 1818; illustrated ed. 1863 · French
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The Odu Ifá
Oral; transmitted by babalawo · Oral tradition, first transcribed 19th-20th c. · Yoruba
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The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia
Anonymous; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers & A. E. Waite · 17th c.; ed. 1904 · English (from Latin)
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