free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Bouge 86 cessfully through warfare, ease tension in the home, help in making important decisions, protect against the hatred of others, and reconcile friends who have become enemies He is a true warrior and a highly skilled combatant Sources: Baskin, Sorcerer’s Handbook, 276; De Laurence, Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, 27; McLean, Treatise of Angel Magic, 52; Waite, Unknown World 1894 – 1895, 230; Wedeck, Treasury of Witchcraft, 96 Bouge In Johann Wierus’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (False Monarchy of Demons, 1583) Bouge (“move”) is listed as a servitor of Pluto Sources: Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 404; Spence, Encyclopedia of Occultism, 120; Wier, Praestigiis Daemonum, 211 Bramsiel In the Theurgia Goetia, the second book of the Lemegeton, Bramsiel is one of the ten Duke SERVITORS OF BYDIEL (see BYDIEL) A good-natured AERIAL DEVIL who is willing to obey those who summon him, Bramsiel appears in an attractive form He commands 2,400 servitors Sources: Belanger, Dictionary of Demons, 76; Guiley, Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, 28 Broosha, El ELBROO In the Judeo-Christian folklore of Spain, el broosha is a vampiric demon that appears in the guise of a large black cat By night, it hunts doe infants to drain dry of their blood There is a commonly believed folklore that cats can suck the breath out of a sleeping baby or that they will sleep across its face for warmth, thereby killing the infant Essentially this demon is LILITH in cat form Sources: Conybeare, Jewish Quarterly, xi, 30; Howey, Cat in Magic and Myth, 173; Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, 382; Thompson, Semitic Magic, 42 Broxa BROKES From medieval Portuguese lore comes the demonic entity or demonic vampiric witch known as the broxa Created through witchcraft, the broxa looks like a person, and flies through the night sky looking for people to attack, as it can only survive by living off human blood It has an array of abilities that one would expect any sort of witch to have, such as the ability to divine the future, flight, hypnotism, mind reading, and shape-shifting It is believed that the broxa as a demonic being is impossible to kill, no matter what form it assumes There is a creature in Hasidic folklore also named broxa, but it is described as a bird that attacks she-goats during the night, drinking their milk It has been speculated by some scholars that over time the broxa bird myth evolved into the broxa vampiric witch of medieval Portugal Sources: Gaster, Myth, Legend, and Custom, 580; Masters, Eros and Evil, 181; Monaghan, Women in Myth, 51; Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic, 43 Brufiel Variations: Brusiel, Burfiel In the Theurgia Goetia, the second book of the Lemegeton, Brufiel is named as one of the twelve named Duke SERVITORS OF MACARIEL (see MACARIEL) Good-natured and willing to obey, he commands four hundred servitors An AERIAL DEVIL, Brufiel may be summoned any time of the day or night He will appear in various forms but most often will assume the shape of a dragon with a virgin’s head Sources: Guiley, Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, 159; Peterson, Lesser Key of Solomon, 103, 108, Trithemius, Steganographia, 141; Van der Toorn, Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, 152 Brulefer Brulefer is one of the eight SERVITORS OF HALE AND SERGULATH He is summoned because he has the ability to cause a woman to love a man Sources: Conway, Demonology and Devil-Lore, 59; Kuriakos, Grimoire Verum Ritual Book, 16; Masters, Devil’s Dominion, 131; Waite, Book of Black and Ceremonial Magic, 193 Bruxae Variations: Xorguinae According to the demonologist Alphonsus de Spina, the species of demon known as a bruxae are the demons that enable witches to fly to their sabbats The word bruxae is possibly taken from a form of Latin, and if so, would translate as the word “broom.” If this is true, this may be the origin of the idea that witches fly on brooms Sources: Broedel, Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft, 50; Gettings, Dictionary of Demons, 64; Lea, Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, 449 Bubana Variations: Bubanabub In the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Bubana (“emptiness”) is named as one of the fifty-three SERVITORS OF ASHTAROTH AND ASMODEUS (see ASHTAROTH and ASMODEUS) Sources: Mathers, Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, 115; Von Worms, Book of Abramelin, 121 Bucafas In the Theurgia Goetia, book two of the Lemegeton, Bucafas, an AERIAL DEVIL, is named www.ebook777.com