malefic · 51 entities
Deceives & Tempts
Leads astray by lies, flattery or false vision.
Held by
- Infernal31
- Disputed15
- Fallen5
Attributed across 11 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
Angra Mainyu
Persian
Anzu
Mesopotamian
Apep
Egyptian
Azazel
Baalberith
Beelzebub
Belial
Belphegor
Enki
Mesopotamian
Eshu
Yoruba
Gadreel
Harut and Marut
Iblis
Jezebel
Canaanite
Procures Naboth's death by suborning false witnesses.
Loki
Norse
Lucifer
Mammon
Mara
Buddhist
Nehushtan
Odin
Norse
Ose
Phenex
Ravana
Vedic
Samael
Satan
Semjaza
Sitri
Tezcatlipoca
Mesoamerican
The Absalom Spirit
The Ahab Spirit
The Asuras
Vedic
The Familiar Spirit
The Ghul
The Incubus
The Jezebel Spirit
The Korah Spirit
The Leviathan Spirit
The Lords of Xibalba
Mesoamerican
The Lying Spirit
The Prince of the Power of the Air
The Python Spirit
The Qarin
The Qliphoth
The Queen of Heaven
The Religious Spirit
The Spirit of Antichrist
The Spirits of Affliction
Valefor
Veles
Slavic
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.
The Myth of Anzu
Anonymous Akkadian · c. 1500-1000 BCE · Akkadian
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Enuma Elish
Anonymous Babylonian · c. 1100 BCE · Akkadian
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The Avesta
Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan
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Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
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Ramayana
Valmiki; tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · c. 500-100 BCE · Sanskrit
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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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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 City of God
Augustine of Hippo; tr. Marcus Dods · 413–426 CE · Latin
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Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
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The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record
Attributed to Nestor and later compilers · c. 1113, describing earlier practice · Old East Slavic
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The Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
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Popol Vuh
Anonymous K'iche' Maya · 16th c., from older material · K'iche'
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Etz Chaim & Lurianic Kabbalah
Isaac Luria, recorded by Chaim Vital · 16th c. · Hebrew
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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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