A list of demons, devils, and evil gods from around the world. Probably not exhaustive. If you know of any more, keep it to yourself.

A

Abaddon - King of the Demons of Hell. Also known as Apollyon (Greek).

Abigor - Rides a horse and carries a scepter and lance. In Hell he commands sixty legions of devils

Adramelech - A demon of Hell where his job is Chancellor and President of The High Council of Devils.

Aguares - Commands thirty legions of devils in Hell. Is also the Grand Duke of Eastern Hell.

Akop - A demon from the Philippines who preys on widowed people.

Alocer - A Grand Duke of Hell who commands thirty-six legions of devils.

Amduscas - A Grand Duke of Hell who commands twenty-nine legions of devils.

Andras - Marquis of Hell who commands thirty legions of devils.

Angul - A demon from the Philippines who kills people with an axe.

Apepi - A serpent demon who in ancient Egypt was in opposition to the sun god Ra.

Apophis - A serpent demon who stalks at night.

Asmodeus - A devil who was banished to the desert by Raphael.

Astaroth - In hell he is The Lord Treasurer and the Grand Duke of Western Hell.

Astarte - A heathen god who is sometimes consigned to Hell.

Aym - A Grand Duke of Hell who commands twenty-six legions of demons. Also known as Haborym.

Ayperos - A Prince of Hell who commands thirty-six legions of devils.

Azazel - Also known as Satanel, he is the Standard Bearer of the armies of Hell.

Azidahaka - The god of witchcraft from Iran. Has three heads.

Azrael - Muslim angel of death.


B

Baal - Commanding General of the Infernal Armies

Baalberith - Also known as Berith, he is the Chief Secretary of Hell.

Balan - A Prince of Hell.

Bearded - Demon His real name is not revealed so that people do not deal with him when searching for the Philosopher's Stone.

Beelzebub - Name means the 'lord of the flies'. A high demon of hell who is sometimes equated with Satan.

Belial - Also known as Beliel and Beliar. The Prince of Trickery, the Demon of Sodomy and the Antichrist.

Belphegor - The demon of Ingenious Discoveries and Wealth

Beng - The Romanian Gypsy version of Satan.

Buer - Commands fifty legions of devils in Hell.

Bumalin - Philippines god of the Underworld.

C

Caym - The Grand President of Hell.

Charon - The boatman of Hell who takes souls accross the Styx.

Chax - A Grand Duke of Hell who is also known as Scox.

Chernobog - Slavic demon whose name means 'the black god'. He brings all things evil at night.

Chemosit - A demon from Kenya who is half man and half bird.

Chu Kwai - Sen Chun A demon from China, the creator of freaks.

Congo Zandor - A Demon worshipped in Haiti.

Cresil - The demon of slovinliness and impurity.


D

Dagon - The Baker of Hell.


E

Eblis - The Persian version of Satan. His name means 'despair'.

Elathan - A Celtic lord of Darkness.

Erebus - A Greek demon who guards the darkness around Hell.

Er Mo - Szechuan King of Demons.

Eurynomus - A Prince of Hell who likes to feed on the dead.


F

Furfur - A Count of Hell who commands twenty six legions of demons.


G

Geryon - According to Dante, Geryon is a giant centaur who guards Hell.

Grand Bois - A demon from Haiti whose name means 'big woods'. He is the master of the forests at night.

Guaricana - A devil from Brazil. He is honoured by the Yurimagua by flogging young men until blood flows.

H

Hatu-Atu-Topun - Also known as Hetu-Ahin, a female demon from Polynesia who stalks twighlight and dawn.

Hecate - Queen of the witches.

Herensugue - An evil serpent from the Basque Country.

I

Ibwa - A demon from the Philippines who feeds on dead bodies.

Ikwaokinyapippilele - A strangely named demon from Panama who causes illness.

Inmai - A demon from Myanmar who bizarrely lives in the post in front of houses and causes people to be inured with thorns.

Irvene - Demon dog who lives on the Canary Islands.

Itzcoliuhqui - A demon god of the Aztecs. He brought cold and destruction.


J

Jahi - Persion female demon. She specialises in debauchery.

Jezebeth - The demon of falsehoods.

Jilaiya - A demon from India who flies as a bird at night to suck the blood of people. It can only suck the blood from people whose name it has heard.


K

Karau - A demon from Panama who causes death in the world.

Kasdeya - Known as the 'Fifth Satan'.

Keron-Kenken - An evil spirit from Patagonia. He eats the newborn and drinks the tears of the mothers.

Kobal - Patron of comedians and the Entertainment Director of Hell.

Kok-Lir - A demon from Borneo who prays on men.


L

Lebara - A Brazilian demon worshipped by the cult of Yoruban.

Leonard - Known in Germany as Urian, he is the Inspector=General of Black Magic and Sorcery.

Leviathan - The androgynous Grand Admiral of Hell who is supposed to have seduced Adam and Eve.

Lilith - The first wife of Adam, before Eve, who was actually a demon.

Lilitu - An ancient demon connected with Lilith.

Lima - A demon worshipped in Haiti.

Lingelson - A demon worshipped in Haiti.


M

Mammon - The Demon of Avarice.

Manuval - A demon of the night from New Guinea.

Mastema - The leader of the offspring of fallen angels.

Melchom - A treasurer of Hell.

Mephistopheles - Sometimes described as a servent of the Devil, other times is a name for Satan himself.

Merihim - The Prince of Pestilence

Moko-Titi - A hideous lizard demon of the Maori people.

Moloch - A demon from Judaism.

Mullin - Lieutenant to Leonard.

Murmur - The Demon of Music.

Mush - A demon of darkness from Iran.

N

Naburus - A Marquis of Hell who has connections to Cerberus.

Nergal - The Chief of the Secret Police of Hell.

Nybras - Publicist of the Pleasures of Hell.

Nysrogh - An inferior demon.

Nyx - The sister and wife of Erebus.


O

Olisha - An evil goddess from Haiti. A favourite of voodoo and black magic.

Orias - A Marquis of Hell.

Oroan - Guyanan demon of eclipses.

Orthon - A minor demon known for posession of bodies.

Orusula - Costa Rican demon who appears in the form of a giant pig. His foam gives people a fatal rash.


P

Paymon - The Master of Ceremonies in Hell.

Philotanus - A demon who likes to assist Belial in sodomy.

Pitkis - Baltic demon of the night.

Po-Tangotango - A night demon of the Maori people.

Proserpine - Sometimes known as a princess of Hell.

Pyro - The Prince of Falsehood.


Q

Qanel - Guatemalan demon.


R

Raum - A Count of Hell who commands thirty legions of demons.

Ravana - Hindu King of Demons.

Rimmon - Also known as Damas, is the Ambassodor of Hell for Russia.

Ronwe - Commands nineteen legions of devils in Hell.

S

Sakarabru - An African demon of darkness.

Samael - The Angel of death and the Prince of the air.

Satanael - Believed to be the evil first son of God by the Bogomils.

Semiazas - The Chief of the Fallen Angels.

Set - An evil god of the night from Ancient Egypt.

Seth - The god of the Underworld from Ancient Egypt.

Shabriri - Known as the demon who made people go blind.

Sonneillon - The demon of hate.

Succorbenoth - The demon of jealousy.


T

Tando Ashanti - Demon who demands the simulataneous human sacrifice of seven men and seven women.

Tezcatlípoca - Aztec God of the 'smoking mirrors'. Has an evil black manifestation. An aspect of Tezcalípoca is Yaotl, meaning enemy.
Thamuz - An Ambassador of Hell.

Tlacatecolototl - A Toltec demon whose name means 'rational owl'. Is god of evil and night.

Troian - Baltic demon of the night.


U

Ukobach - The Stationary Engineer of Hell.

Uphir - A demon physician.


V

Valafar - A Grand Duke of Hell.

Verin - The Demon of Impatience.

Vetis - A demon of hell who corrupts and tempts the holy.

Vritra - Hindu enemy of the gods. Is a serpent.


W

Wele Gumali - Name means the 'black god'. He comes from Kenya.

X

Xa-Mul - A demon from the Philippines who swallows people whole.

Xaphan - A demon who stokes the furnaces of Hell.

Xic - From Guatemala. Brings sudden death to men.


Y

Yalocan Tumulu - A demon of darkness and mischief from Surinam

Yama - Hindu king of death who has two dogs to carry away the dying.


Z

Zaebos - A demon who is part human, part crocodile.

Zagam - The demon of Deciet and Counterfeiting who has the talent of being able to turn water into wine

A Kolkata woman displays her wrinkled hands, caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water.

EACH day about 100 million people are being poisoned with one of the deadliest substances known. In India and Bangladesh, China and Southeast Asia, even in countries such as Australia, the silent tragedy of arsenic poisoning continues to unfold.


Arsenic is not merely a favourite resort of medieval or Victorian murderers and crime novelists. It causes cancer of the skin, lung, bladder, kidney, liver and uterus, is implicated in several skin diseases, nerve disorders, diabetes, lung disease and heart disease, and is suspected of causing birth defects, liver and blood disorders. In South Asia, women and girls who contract the symptoms are often expelled from their families, inflicting social and personal tragedy as well.

Arsenic poisoning for the most part results from human activity and is therefore preventable. In the case of Bangladesh and West Bengal, the source is chiefly the millions of household tube wells that aid agencies caused to be dug, so families could avoid polluted surface water by obtaining ostensibly clean well water.

This arsenic is geogenic: silt eroded from the Himalayas is high in arsenic which, through the millenniums, has accumulated in the sediments of the Gangetic Delta from which these wells supply household water for drinking, cooking and growing vegetables.

An estimated 70 million people are exposed to arsenic in India and Bangladesh alone, part of what must surely rate as the worst case of mass poisoning in history. Other countries with similar geologies, such as Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, are also affected, though global awareness about these is lower.

The human toll of death and sickness from arsenic is unknown but certainly runs into the millions. The US National Research Council estimates that drinking a litre of water containing 50 micrograms of arsenic a day will cause 13 deaths out of every 1000 people. Often household wells have many times this level.

In countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina the main sources of arsenic are anthropogenic: the hundreds of thousands of century-old livestock dips scattered across the landscape and the residues from former goldmining tailings that leach arsenic into surface and groundwater. Old railway lines, treated timber plants, cotton farms and certain factory sites also contribute a toxic legacy on which suburbia often innocently sprawls.

Many Australian scientists have worked on different aspects of the arsenic problem and AusAID has run programs to provide safer water in several countries. In some cases the answer may be as simple as a rainwater tank. But for all the efforts of Australians and international agencies the problem remains intractable, only pecked away at the edges.

A recent development with some promise is the discovery by Megharaj Mallavarapu of the Co-operative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment and University of South Australia of a naturally occurring soil bacterium that oxidises the highly toxic arsenite to much less toxic arsenate. Megh says the microbe can be used not only to remediate badly contaminated soils but possibly also incorporated into a filter to cleanse household water from affected wells.

Other researchers, such as Ging Khoe at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, have devised different kinds of water filters using physical or chemical techniques. The CRC CARE team has also mapped the spread of arsenic through the Bangladeshi food chain.

Another important approach to the problem is one in which Australians are experienced and well qualified: catchment management. By planning and managing surface water better, there is scope to clean up contaminated surface water, which would reduce household dependency on toxic wells. There is also scope to reduce the arsenic content of the food supply by not irrigating with groundwater.

From these examples it is abundantly clear that Australians have the ideas and scientific capability to overcome this human crisis. What is missing is the large-scale vision to pull all these elements into a cohesive program. When Howard Florey developed penicillin as a useable drug, when Frank Fenner took on the task of banishing smallpox from the world and when Fred Hollows tackled eye disease in Australia and Africa, it required vision.

In the case of the world's worst poisoning episode, the vision to tackle and terminate it through a comprehensive scientific and aid program so far has not been forthcoming.

If Australia aspires to show leadership and to put its scientific skills to work to benefit humanity on the large scale, this is a task worthy of our mettle and within our capabilities and resources.