The Hebrews absorbed him into their mythology, where he attained the highest status and most power of all demons in Hebrew legends. He is identified with the demon Aeshma, one of the seven archangels of Persian mythology. He rides on a dragon and breathes fire.Īsmodeus has his roots in ancient Persia. He is usually portrayed as having three heads, those of an ogre, a ram and a bull, all sexually licentious creatures having the feet of a cock, another sexually aggressive creature and having wings. Throughout history, he has been regarded as one of the most evil of Satan's infernal demons. He is also one of the chief demons involved in possession. His chief objectives are to prevent intercourse between husband and wife, wreck new marriages and force husbands to commit adultery. The demon of lechery, jealousy, anger and revenge. Some of the major demons important to witchcraft cases are:Īsmodeus. The grimoires of ceremonial magic also give their own hierarchies. JoHANN weyer, who devised the most complex hierarchy, estimated that there were 7,405,926 demons serving under 72 princes. Christian demo-nologists of the 16th and 17th centuries catalogued demons into hierarchies of hell and ascribed to them attributes and duties, including ambassadorships to various nations. Of Solomon appeared, describing Solomon's magic ring for commanding the djinn and listing the names and functions of various Hebrew, Greek, Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian and perhaps Persian demons.
Demons have been catalogued, ranked and classified since at least 100-400, the period in which the Testament
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