Encyclopedia > Barbas

  Article Content

Barbas

In demonology Barbas is a Great President of Hell and governs thirty-six legions of demons. He answers truly on hidden or secret things, causes and heals diseases, teaches mechanical arts, and changes men into other shapes.

He is depicted as a great lion that under the conjurer's request changes shape into a man.

The name Barbas seems to come from Latin 'barba', beard, hellebore[?] (a plant used in witchcraft, especially to invoke demons), and also a male name.

Other spelling: Marbas.

See also The Lesser Key of Solomon, Ars Goetia.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Rameses

... III Ramses IV[?] The name means "Child of the Sun". This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39.5 ms