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[[Category: Monstrous authors]]

[[Category: Monstrous authors]]

'''Arthur Edward Waite''' (October 2, 1857 - May 19, 1942) was an [[:Category:Authors|author]], [[occult]]ist and co-creator of the [[Rider-Waite Tarot deck]]. [[Category:Witches and warlocks]][[Category:Monstrous authors]]

...own. Two of his ministers go before him making the sound of trumpets. Some authors portray him simply as a vulture. ...ar before the conjurer to answer every desired question. According to some authors he also teaches music.

...me authors with two stars on his forehead), and the third of a cat to most authors, although some say of a calf, riding a viper, and carrying in his hand a li

...[[Aleister Crowley]] and his protégé Israel Regardie. Since that time many authors have added insight to the study of the Occult by drawing parallels between ...the validity of all books and to cross reference numerous times with other authors on the same subject. 'Beware False Prophets'. Most mass printed Occult know

'''Cassiel''' is considered as an Archangel in Jewish mythology but some authors depict him as a demon.

...ince of Hell commanding twenty-six legions of demons (twenty-five to other authors).

Graeco-Roman authors equated the Parthians with a Scythian tribe called the Parni (i.e. Greek Pa

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Some religious authors consider Nisroch to be a fallen angel, once of the order of Principalities

...is a Great Earl and President of Hell, having thirty-six (thirty-two other authors) legions of demons under his command.

In 1854, Lévi visited England, where he met the [[:Category:Authors|novelist]] Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was interested in Rosicrucianism as a [[Category:Monstrous authors]]

Glasya-Labolas is a mighty President (and Earl to other authors) of Hell who commands thirty-six legions of demons.

...is the mighty Great President of Hell having thirty (thirty-eight to other authors) legions of demons under his command.

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...ng three or thirty legions of spirits (the number of legions differs among authors). Focalor is mentioned in The Lesser Key of Solomon as the forty-first of t

...goodly knight carrying a lance, an ensign and a sceptre (a serpent to some authors, most notably Aleister Crowley). Alternatively he is depicted as a ghostly

...picted as a griffin-winged bull that turns into a man after a while. Other authors portray him as a bull-headed man with the wings of a griffin.

...eat battles and disputes, and makes gangrene wounds caused by arrows. Some authors say this demon belongs to the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius.

Balam is a King (to some authors a duke) who commands over forty legions of demons. He was once an angel of

...nce and, as a companion of [[Bes]], also protected others from evil. Other authors have noted that Ammit's lion characteristics, and the lake of fire, may be

...s issuing forth from a volcano. The raven of dispersion is thought by some authors to be related to the raven Noah let fly from his ark while the waters dispe

...ien race called '''Nommos''' are mermen from Sirius who, according to some authors, visited Ancient Egypt.

...of English: most American authors write '''Big Gray Man''' while European authors choose '''Big Grey Man''', as ''gray'' is spelled with an "e" in Britain.

...s, can make a man witty, eloquent, invisible (invincible according to some authors), and live long, and can discover treasures and recover lost things.

...a flaming tail and speaks only lies unless enclosed in a triangle. To some authors he changes from hart into angel when compelled to enter the magic triangle.

...P. Lovecraft]] and associated writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used—and continue to use&mdas ...of Lovecraft's life, there was much borrowing of story elements among the authors of the "Lovecraft Circle", a clique of writers with whom Lovecraft correspo

For a combination of reasons, including those above, authors of [[fantasy fiction]] have often muddled the meaning of each of the terms

...to Lucifer than other kings are, and has two hundred (one hundred to other authors) legions of demons under his rule, half of them from the Angelic Order, and ...r invokes this demon he must look towards the northwest (the west to other authors), for there is where he has his house, and when Paimon appears he must be a

The ichneumon was described by ancient authors such as Diodorus, who wrote about the mongoose controlling the population o

...land: Your Travel Guide to Maryland's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, authors Matt Lake, Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman include 3 first-person narratives o ....S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets'', authors Mark Moran & Mark Sceurman relate the story of a purported Crybaby Bridge o

At least two authors other than Carroll have addressed the subject of bandersnatches.

...hirty legions of demons under his command (twenty-nine according to other authors) and has the rank of Great Duke of Hell.

Malphas is a Great President and a Prince to some authors, having forty legions of demons under his command.

...f their names, and their supposed ability to speak with a human voice, the authors of bestiaries often mistook one for another. This is likely the source of m

==Short Story Collections (with other authors)==

Both authors were probably referring to the gnu or pangolin.

This category includes artists and authors as well as their works.

In demonology, '''Andras''' is a Great Marquis (a Prince to other authors) of Hell.

...Necronomicon Press 1994), which contains critical appreciations by various authors and a long interview with Campbell himself. [[Category:Monstrous authors]]

...he mythos, to see it or learn too much about it is to court disaster. Some authors state that the favour of the god requires a human sacrifice or eternal serv

Authors who believed in [[demon]]s of opposite sex assigned them a heterosexual ten Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger (15th century), authors of the ''Malleus Maleficarum'', adopted an intermediate position. According

Available in A Feast of Stories by Britain’s Favourite Authors, ed. Clare Francis & Ondine Upton, Pan 1997 and James Herbert: By Horror Ha [[Category:Monstrous authors]]

...hen answering questions he seems to stand on burning ashes or coals. Other authors consider Camio a 'Prince' of Hell instead and depict him as a man wearing r

...le of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad"), and more modern authors from Henry James to Stephen King have featured them in their writings. Haun

Barker is one of the leading authors of contemporary horror/fantasy, starting out with pure horror writing early [[Category:Monstrous authors]]

According to most authors on demonology and the most known grimoires, Beleth rides a pale horse, and

Some authors claim the price to be 2 coins, placed over each eye of the deceased.

...m Cimmerians, a warlike people mentioned in the works of several classical authors as dwelling totally in darkness. It is also possible that Cimeries is deriv

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Shax is a Great Marquis (and a Duke to some authors) of Hell with thirty legions of demons under command.

...dily from one nation to another at the conjurer's will. According to a few authors he can make men ignorant. He is said to be better conjured to appear when t

* Authors Mary Valentis & Ann Devane (Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming It

The authors assigned the specific epithet draculae, noting "the largest known chiropter

...e."] This post generated a great deal of publicity online - partly because authors rarely post or respond to reviews on Amazon, and partly because of the tone [[Category:Monstrous authors]]

...eings kill each other, yet Hadad is resurrected and Yam also returns. Some authors have suggested that these tales reflect the experience of seasonal cycles i

...indar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster. Previous authors (Homer etc) only use words that could also mean ordinary men riding ordinar

...re represented a cognate of the moss people in Gothic folklore. Subsequent authors, however, have related skōhsl with English "shuck" (from Old English scucc

Though Tiamat is often described by modern authors as a sea serpent or dragon, no ancient texts exist in which there is a clea

...r tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, and excrement. Most authors presume the creatures are legendary and that all supposed physical evidence

...uch controversy exists regarding the origins of Franz. Many historians and authors believe that the boy was nothing more than a well timed publicity stunt to

...selves as transformed, is considered evidence of clinical lycanthropy. The authors go on to note that although the condition seems to be an expression of psyc

...an evolution of these understandings. It has even been suggested that the authors of the Munich Manual knowingly designed this book to be in discord with und As we have suggested that alleged Christians might have been the authors of the sundry necromancy manuals, the question of their inspirations must a

...e as a term for minor spirits, elementals, or faeries of the air. Fantasy authors will sometimes employ sylphs in their fiction.

...ot make it revive already-expired copyrights. Hence, in Australia works by authors who died before 1955 are still in the public domain. ...edia. Ironically, this puts many creators of such work, like musicians and authors, on both sides of the issue, since they have frequently fought media distri

...igns waged against the English and their Burgundian allies. Although a few authors have tended to exaggerate the position he held during the latter campaigns, Some authors have alleged that Rais was framed for murder and heresy by elements within

...e orchards. These agriculturally dangerous beings appear in other medieval authors as Mavones, maones, manes and "Magonians," the latter being airborne crop-r

Other authors use the term only to refer to [[siren]]s and [[mermaid]]s-like water spirit

[[Zora Neale Hurston]] recorded many hoodoo practices and tales. Other authors on the subject include Harry M. Hyatt, Newbell Niles Puckett, Jim Haskins,

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Of course, both of these authors are defining what they consider to be good science fiction. Not all writer ...iences of science fiction and fantasy literature, and many science fiction authors have also written works of fantasy. Fans often nominate works of fantasy fo

...which are common to most of the lists of these goddesses given by ancient authors (and which named in common by both Homer and Hesiod).

...folklore and folk customs as the echoes of forgotten agricultural rituals, authors such as Murray and other members of the Folklore Society saw an esoteric fe

...in incantations. Shub-Niggurath also appears in the works of other mythos authors, including August Derleth, Lin Carter, and Brian Lumley.

...orum where authors can write George Romero style zombie fiction with other authors.

...ontz has stated he used pen names after several editors convinced him that authors who switched genre fell victim to "negative crossover": alienating establis ...iction'' he remarked that the one sin readers of Westerns will not forgive authors is gun errors.)

The authors also reported that, of their sample of 'necrophiliacs,' 68% were motivated

...s the only mention of any such sighting, and it has been suggested by some authors that Macnaghten really meant the City Police witness Joseph Lawende, though ...fied by the "only person who had a good view of the murderer", though some authors express skepticism that this identification ever happened, for a variety of

...ences to the roc are found as early as the 8th century from Middle-Eastern authors.

...r people. "I didn't know what made people want to be friends," he told the authors. "I didn't know what made people attractive to one another. I didn't know w

As to why the monster was born, there is considerable controversy. Some authors say that Joseph, the versatile son of Bear Lake’s founding father, Charle

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...le de Berneville, Comtesse d' Aulnoy (1650-1705), both of whom were French authors. Other sources say that the name is derived from the word Hongrois, which m

Lamia gradually evolved into a kind of succubus. Later authors described the Lamiai as haunting ghosts (phasma) which also employed illusi

...r of the local Sacred Heart Orphanage, who was beatified for her work. The authors felt that this was a case of Version 'B' glimpsed in transition to Version

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...e genre of [[horror fiction|horror]] stories and films. Many distinguished authors, such as Brian Aldiss, claim that it is the very first [[science fiction]] ...he learns from the works of the masters of Medieval alchemy, reading such authors as [[Albertus Magnus]], [[Cornelius Agrippa]] and [[Paracelsus]] and shunni

The olitiau has been equated with the kongamato by several authors. Heuvelmans writes that "the general appearance, the size, the long jaws br

There have been attempts by some modern authors of fiction to link the Arthurian character Morgan le Fay with the Morrígan

...lly a composite of the many humped, super otter, and super eels types. The authors suggest Basilosaurus as a candidate, or possibly Remingtoncetids. * '''[[Great Sea Centipede]]''': Same as the many finned. The authors suggest the flippers may either be retractile, and the "scaly" appearance c

...ost likely circumstance, based on the testimony of Pausanias, is that both authors took their themes from a religion known to and believed in by all the Helle

...bination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory. Many authors, historians, and amateur detectives have proposed theories about the identi ...891, known in the police docket as the "Whitechapel murders". In addition, authors and historians have connected at least seven other murders and violent atta

Mediæval authors, under the control of the Church, confined their magic to compilations of w ..., [[Edmund Spenser]]'s ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', and to more contemporary authors from [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] to [[Mercedes Lackey]] and [[J. K. Rowling]].

...cle the Historic 2004 Season'' with Stewart O'Nan. This work recounts the authors' roller coaster reaction to the Red Sox's 2004 season, a season culminating ...ns picked up on these clues, not to mention the similarity between the two authors' literary styles, horror fans' and retailers' suspicions were aroused. Stil

...s and get guidance on his voyages. In the ''Dialogues of the Dead'' genre, authors would somehow contrive a device for summoning the dead to a character who w ...od was a British writer who is well known for writing ghost stories. Other authors in the field include Oscar Wilde (''The Canterville Ghost'', 1887), M. R. J

Most authors agree that Africa was the basilisk's homeland. The basilisk is always found

...tory, Atlach-Nacha is referred to as a male, but in later stories by other authors, it is implied to be a female. ...may be a prototype for that god and other serpentine gods worldwide. Some authors identify him with the Stygian serpent god Set from Robert E. Howard's Conan

...rch 1939, the two gods even meet face-to-face, albeit briefly. Many mythos authors, however, rarely dwell on this assumed rivalry, if they acknowledge it at a

Some authors say that Perseus was armed with a scythe by [[Mercury]] ([[Hermes]]) and a

...the Moirae were conceived differently at different times and by different authors. Sometimes they appear as divinities of fate in the strict sense of the ter

...e demon who is first in punishing the corresponding sinners. Some medieval authors, such as [[Collin de Plancy]] and [[Johann Weyer]], considered Leviathan to

...ms of which Wicca partly draws inspiration from. It has been noted by some authors that Wicca is becoming more polytheistic as it is maturing; embracing a mor ...ncepts and/or produce counterproductive results in Wiccan contexts. Modern authors have also noted that these rules were the byproduct of inner conflict withi

...writers (such as [[Edgar Allan Poe]]) and common among subsequent fantasy authors (such as Jorge Luis Borges and William Goldman). The ''Necronomicon'' was f

...me was influenced by [[mythology]], pulp fiction, and contemporary fantasy authors of the 1960s and 1970s. ...Open Gaming License (OGL) and d20 Trademark License. Under these licenses, authors are free to use the d20 System when writing their own games and game supple

Spear legend meets Urban legend in the writings of the two conspiracy theory authors, Smith and Piccard. Their retelling of the Spear myth stretches from its pu

...r how they came to be. The later bird composite form is considered by most authors to have been a confusion with an early depiction of the Sirens as bird wome

...g ''djinn'' has become more common. Usually, the term ''djinn'' is used by authors who wish to convey a more serious interpretation of the mythical creature,

...he Home Office in 1995 in response to fears raised by Bulger's murder. The authors, Dr Kevin Browne and Amanda Pennell of the University of Birmingham, emphas

...rt of Hell. Some Catholic theologians compared him with Abaddon. Yet other authors considered Asmodai a prince of revenge.

...sted in earlier Hebrew mythology and is not the creation of later medieval authors. There is also a Hebrew tradition to wait awhile before a boy's hair is cut

..., "say a thing in the name of the man who says it," can be traced to their authors, and are therefore maxims; for example, the saying "Descend a step to choos

..., a musical collaboration between One Ring Zero and some of their favorite authors, is about a golem, and called simply "Golem."

...oday it is probably most readily recognized. Books about the "rapture]" by authors like Hal Lindsey, and the more recent Left Behind novels (by Jerry Jenkins

...y theories, most notably those of David Icke, and in science fiction. Some authors refer to them as '''reptoids''', '''dinosauroids''' or '''lizardmen'''.

...hile several researchers seek a rational explanation for the events, other authors explore the more fantastic details of the story to propose different kinds

...the life of interior Africa. According to Loren Coleman & Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, "African guides found large, unexplain

...od; through popular epitomes these traditions were drawn upon by Christian authors embellishing the fall of Lucifer.

...56;ων) appears in the works of [[Plato]] and many other ancient authors, but without the evil connotations which are apparent in the [[Septuagint]]

...be "rediscovered" by the romantic writers of the nineteenth century. Later authors as disparate as [[William Blake]], T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, *Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a modern sequel, ''Inferno'', in whic

The authors of the book Science in Culture reason the child looked like the Brahmin bec

...mous treatise on vampirism in Hungary. It was also during this period that authors and playwrights first began to explore the vampire myth. Stoker’s novel w

...the vampire epidemics. By then, though, many knew about vampires, and soon authors would adopt and adapt the concept of vampire, making it known to the genera

...st another pot-boiler adventure among many. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur C

...mous treatise on vampirism in Hungary. It was also during this period that authors and playwrights first began to explore the vampire myth. Stoker's novel was

...and other back-to-nature ideals, the werewolf has come to be seen by some authors as a representation of humanity allied more closely with nature.

...bore through searing critiques of Waite's writings and editorials of other authors' writings.

...seudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]], an unknown [[5th century]] [[author]] or authors writing in the style of [[Dionysius the Areopagite]]. The creeds and confes