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Seraph who, led by Lucifer, rebelled against God and was
subsequently banished from heaven. He appears in the
Apocryphals book of Tobit and is often portrayed as an
ugly man with a pair of large wings that inspires men
with such lust that they betray their wives. Thus, he is
the personification of the vice of lust. In Jewish
folklore, he is described as the king of demons. In medieval theology, Asmodeus was described as one of the chieftains of Hell that had three heads: the first resembling that of a bull, the second that of a man, and the third that of a ram. He had the tail of a serpent, the feet of a goose, and a fiery breath. He was often seen mounted upon a dragon, teaching man the difficult but useful art of turning invisible. |