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Gorgo —dim. of Demogorgon, Greek name of the devil. Haborym —Hebrew synonym for Satan. Hecate —Greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft. Ishtar —Babylonian goddess of fertility. Kali — (Hindu) daughter of Shiva, high priestess of the Thuggees. Lilith —Hebrew female devil, Adam's first wife who taught him the ropes.
Category. : Female demons. Female evil spirits or malicious monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology. These monstrous women are often portrayed as predatory creatures, who are usually seen seducing male humans or snatching young children in order to kill, eat, or otherwise harm them.
Belphegor is a random demon/monster encounter in the Square Enix games Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy XVI. Belphegor is a young female demon in the series As Miss Beelzebub Likes. One of the main characters, and the love interest of Azazel. Belphegor is referenced in the television show Elementary season three episode three.
e. Archons (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, árchontes), in Gnosticism and religions closely related to it, are the builders of the physical universe. Among the Archontics, Ophites, Sethians and in the writings of Nag Hammadi library, the archons are rulers, each related to one of seven planets; they prevent ...
[10] [11] The name would thus mean something like "underworld demons/phantoms" [1] or "nether demons/phantoms". Building on this, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt interprets the name as meaning "inferior" or "latent demons", saying the Fomorians are "like the powers of chaos, ever latent and hostile to cosmic order". [ 6 ]
Abyzou. In the myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, Abyzou is the name of a female demon. Abyzou was blamed for miscarriages and infant mortality and was said to be motivated by envy, as she herself was infertile. In the Coptic Egypt she is identified with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but in various texts ...
First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop role-playing games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods. He is a shape-shifter with a thousand forms, most of them maddeningly horrific to ...
Mélusine (French: [melyzin]) or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a lamia or a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.