Empusa, is an apparition of the Diuel, or a spirit which sheweth it selfe vnto such as are in misery, chaunging his shape into diuers formes, and for the most part appeareth at noone time. Read more hereof in Suidas.
Dicelon.
Hecatæa.
Dicelon, is so called because it is sent to make men afraid: those kinds of terrors the Grecians call Hecatæa, as Apollonius writeth, because Hecate or Proserpina is the cause of them, who therefore is called βριμώ άπὸ τοῦ βριμᾷν, that is of terrifying, and that by reason that terrours by night were thought to be stirred vp by her.
Acco.
Alphito.
Plutarchus writeth, that Acco and Alphito, were monstrous women, by naming of whome, mothers kept their children in awe, and made them feare to do euil.
Telchinnes.
Cardanus calleth these Diuels which kéepe vnder the earth, and many times kill men as they are vndermining, by the name of Tilchinnes. Men vsing witchcraft, and such as are possessed with a Spirit, and out of their wits, are called amongst the Grecians, τελχῖνες.
Pan.