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  • Some years later, in the middle of the fifteenth century, Asmodai appears as the demon of lust in the Malleus Maleficarum, a rather simplistic catalogue, to my mind, of demons and their ill works.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • Asmodeus, also known as Ashmadia or Asmodai, is most likely derived from a form of Persian, the phrase aeshma-daeva, meaning demon of wrath.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • Pride can do; Asmodai, the demon of Lust, Belphegor. the demon of Sloth, and Satan, devil of Delusion, each pleads for his own pet sin; and after

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

  • You too, Asmodai, we all remember your great services in the past; there is none more resolute than you to keep safe his prisoners under lock and key, nor any so unimpeachable.

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

  • As Justice was passing by on his return, in an instant he caused such a tempest of fiery whirlwinds to fall upon the Evil One and his princes that Lucifer was swept away, and with him Beelzebub, Satan, Moloch, Abadon, Asmodai, Dagon, Apolyon,

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

  • Asmodai, what wouldst thou profit us were it not for Sloth and Idleness?

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

  • Yea, were I to loosen the bonds I have upon the subjects of Mammon and Pride, and even of Asmodai, Belphegor and Hypocrisy, no man would for an instant abide their domination.

    The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

  • "Hey Ralph (!), Tom Broad, Tony and Asmodai, here's a definition for your thoughts on this topic: Intellectual disho ..."

    Computerworld News 2010

  • "Hey Ralph (!), Tom Broad, Tony and Asmodai, here's a definition for your thoughts on this topic: Intellectual disho ..."

    Computerworld News 2010

  • "Hey Ralph (!), Tom Broad, Tony and Asmodai, here's a definition for your thoughts on this topic: Intellectual disho ..."

    Computerworld News 2010

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