free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Earls of Hell 126 Earls of Hell Ebra There are twenty named earls mentioned in the various grimoires They are ANDROMALIUS, BARBATOS, BIFRONS, BOTIS, CAACRINOLAAS, FORAII, FORFAX, F URFUR , GLACIA LABOLAS, GLASSYALABOLAS, HALPHAS, IPES, MARAX, MORAX, MURMUR , RÄUM, RONOBE, SALEOS, VINÉ, and ZAEBOS According to the Theurgia Goetia, the second book of the Lemegeton, Duke Ebra is one of the eleven named SERVITORS OF PAMERSIEL (see DUKES OF HELL and PAMERSIEL) A nocturnal AERIAL DEVIL, Ebra is known as being a very useful demon when it comes to driving out spirits from haunted places He is an expert liar and cannot keep a secret Ebra is arrogant and stubborn and when summoned it must be done from the second floor of a home or in a wide open space Sources: Ashley, Complete Book of Devils and Demons, 60, 74; De Claremont, Ancient’s Book of Magic; Diagram Group, Little Giant Encyclopedia, 504; Scott, London Magazine, Vol 5, 378 Ebaron In the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Ebaron (“not burdensome”) is among the fifteen SERVITORS OF PAYMON (see PAYMON) Sources: Mathers, Book of the Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage, 108; Von Worms, Book of Abramelin, 257 Eblis Variations: AZAZEL, the Father of Devils, the Great SATAN, Haris, Iblees, IBLIS, the SATAN of Mohammed There are two stories of Eblis (“despair”) The first has him as an angel who resided in Azaze, the Heaven nearest God, but he refused to bow down to Adam and acknowledge him as a superior creation He joined the rebel angels and after the battle he was banished to Hell There he was transformed into a SHAITAN, condemned to haunt ruins and eat unblessed food until Judgment Day In the other story of Eblis, he was a DJINN who was captured in the great war between the Djinn and the angels He was taken back to Heaven, re-educated, and gained angelic status He became the Treasurer of the Heavenly Paradise When Eblis learned that his brother Djinn had regrouped and were preparing for another attack on Heaven, Eblis, seeking even more power, broke free from the angels and returned to his fellow DJINN to lead them He became the chief of all the DJINN, and according to Arabic and Persian mythology he commands all of the evil Djinn Like all Djinn, he was created by God out of smokeless fire As a FALLEN ANGEL he has been given the rank and title of Chief of Those Who Rebelled He was the angel who taught men how to make tools and develop skills that were forbidden to them Sources: Ashley, Complete Book of Devils and Demons, 92; Brewer, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, 90–1, 201; Daniels, Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, 1250; Horne, Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, 114 Sources: Guiley, Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonolgy, 196; McLean, Treatise on Angel Magic, 36; Peterson, Lesser Key of Solomon, 64; Waite, Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination, 97 Edimmu Variations: Êdimmu, Êkimmu, Ekimmu An edimmu is a species of ghost from Sumerian mythology Its name translates to mean “the seizer.” Akin to many AERIAL DEVILS, the edimmu are invisible and noncorporeal Created when a person does not receive proper burial rites, these demonic ghosts hate the living and are known for draining away the life of children while they sleep and attacking the “middle part” of men Edimmu have the ability to possess someone who has broken certain taboos, such as the consumption of ox meat; they can also cause disease and inspire criminal behavior Edimmu live in the underworld in the kingdom of Ereshkigal, the goddess of death and gloom, where they are favored subjects (see IRKALLA) Fortunately, the destruction of this type of demon is easy enough, as performing a proper funeral rite for the body of the deceased will dissolve the demonic being Sources: Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, 260; Thompson, Semitic Magic, 3, 26, 3; turner, Dictionary of Ancient Deities, 4879 Edriel Duke Edriel is named as one of the ten SERVIEMONIEL in the Theurgia Goetia, the second book of the Lemegeton (see EMONIEL) He is said to be a good-natured AERIAL DEVIL and willing to obey his summoner Edriel commands 1,320 lesser dukes and servitors and lives in the woods TORS OF Sources: Peterson, Lesser Key of Solomon, 97, 119, Trithemius, Steganographia, 67 Eemen The king of death and Hell, Eemen is one of the eight AUSTATIKCO-PAULIGAUR who rule over one of the eight sides of the world, according to Persian mythology This demonic spirit rules over www.ebook777.com