malefic · 31 entities
Causes Sickness
Inflicts disease, wounds or wasting.
Held by
- Infernal15
- Disputed14
- Fallen2
Attributed across 13 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.
Angra Mainyu
Persian
Apollo
Greek
Beelzebub
Chernobog
Slavic
Izanami
Japanese
Kasdeja
Lamashtu
Mesopotamian
Legion
Leraje
Lilith
Marbas
Nergal
Mesopotamian
Pazuzu
Mesopotamian
Resheph
Canaanite
Rudra
Vedic
Sabnock
Satan
Sekhmet
Egyptian
Serqet
Egyptian
Shax
The Asag
Mesopotamian
The Fomoire
Celtic
The Lords of Xibalba
Mesoamerican
The Preta
Buddhist
The Spirit of Infirmity
The Spirits of Affliction
The Utukku
Mesopotamian
Tlaloc
Mesoamerican
Vepar
Xiwangmu
Chinese
Zepar
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
Read The Egyptian Book of the Dead in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hunefer · Wikimedia file page
Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
Read Rigveda in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page
The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets)
Anonymous; recovered at Ras Shamra · c. 1400-1200 BCE · Ugaritic
Read The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets) in full ↗Cover: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown artist · Wikimedia file page
Udug-hul (Evil Utukku)
Anonymous; canonical series of sixteen tablets · c. 1800–600 BCE · Sumerian and Akkadian
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Akkadian Incantation Series & Amulet Inscriptions
Anonymous; recovered from Assyrian and Babylonian sites · c. 1800-600 BCE · Akkadian and Sumerian
Read Akkadian Incantation Series & Amulet Inscriptions in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Robert William Rogers (1864–1930) · Wikimedia file page
The Avesta
Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan
Read The Avesta in full ↗Cover: CC0 · Daderot · Wikimedia file page
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read Theogony & Works and Days in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hesiod · Wikimedia file page
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)
Read 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page
Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)
Anonymous · 4th c. BCE - 2nd c. CE · Classical Chinese
Read Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · National Library of China · Wikimedia file page
The Pali Canon
Anonymous; attributed to the Buddha and his disciples · c. 100 BCE, from oral tradition · Pali
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New Testament
Various · c. 50–110 CE · Koine Greek
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The Testament of Solomon
Anonymous; tr. F. C. Conybeare · c. 100–400 CE · Greek
Read The Testament of Solomon in full ↗Cover: CC0 · Simeon Solomon · Wikimedia file page
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
Read Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Áed Ua Crimthainn et al (12th century) · Wikimedia file page
Popol Vuh
Anonymous K'iche' Maya · 16th c., from older material · K'iche'
Read Popol Vuh in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Francisco Ximénez · Wikimedia file page
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
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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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