‘Their first and principall King (which is of the power of the east) is called Baëll; who, when he is conjured up, appeareth with three heads; the first, like a tode; the second, like a man; the third, like a cat. He speaketh with a hoarse voice, he maketh a man go invisible, he hath under his obedience and rule sixtie and six legions of divels.’[4]
All the other diabolical chiefs are described at the same length, but I only give their names, and the number of legions they command.
| Agares | 31 | |
| Marbas or Barbas | 36 | |
| Amon or Aamon | 40 | |
| Barbatos | 30 | |
| Buer | 50 | |
| Gusoin | 40 | |
| Botis or Otis | 60 | |
| Bathin or Mathinn | 30 | |
| Purson or Curson | 22 | |
| Eligor or Abigor | 60 | |
| Leraie or Oray | 30 | |
| Valefar or Malefar | 10 | |
| Morax or Foraij | 36 | |
| Ipos or Ayporos | 36 | |
| Naberius or Cerberus | 19 | |
| Glasya Labolas or Caacrinolaas | 36 | |
| Zepar | 26 | |
| Bileth | 85 | |
| Sitri or Bitru | 60 | |
| Paimon | 20 | |
| Belial | none | |
| Bune | 30 | |
| Forneus | 29 | |
| Ronoue | 19 | |
| Berith | 26 | |
| Astaroth | 40 | |
| Foras or Forcas | 29 | |
| Furfur | 26 | |
| Marchosias | 30 | |
| Malphas | 40 | |
| Vepar or Separ | 29 | |
| Sabnacke or Salmac | 50 | |
| Sidonay or Asmoday | 72 | |
| Gaap or Tap | 36 | |
| Shax or Scox | 30 | |
| Procell | 48 | |
| Furcas | 20 | |
| Murmur | 30 | |
| Caim | 30 | |
| Raum or Raim | 30 | |
| Halphas | 26 | |
| Focalor | 3 | |
| Vine | none | |
| Bifrons | 26 | |
| Gamigin | 30 | |
| Zagan | 33 | |
| Orias | 30 | |
| Valac | 30 | |
| Gomory | 26 | |
| Decarabia or Carabia | 30 | |
| Amduscias | 29 | |
| Andras | 30 | |
| Andrealphus | 30 | |
| Ose | none | |
| Aym or Haborim | 26 | |
| Orobas | 20 | |
| Vapula | 36 | |
| Cimeries | 20 | |
| Amy | 36 | |
| Flauros | 20 | |
| Balam | 40 | |
| Allocer | 36 | |
| Vuall | 37 | |
| Saleos | none | |
| Haagenti | 33 | |
| Phœnix | 20 | |
| Stolas | 26 |
‘Note that a legion is 6666, and now by multiplication count how manie legions doo arise out of euerie particular,’
Or a grand total of 14,198,580 devils, not including their commanders.
How many of these fall to the share of England? I know not, but they were very active in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in the seventeenth. They seem to us, nowadays, to have frittered away their energies in attending on witches, in entering into divers persons and tormenting them, and in making senseless uproars and playing practical jokes. Let us take about half a dozen of these latter. Say, for argument sake, that they are not very abstruse or intellectual reading; at all events, they are as good as the modern stories of spiritual manifestations, and are as trustworthy.
CHAPTER III.
‘The Just Devil of Woodstock’—Metrical Version—Presumed Genuine History of ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock.’