Western Esoteric Supernatural Beings

193 documented Western Esoteric supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 86 greater and 56 lesser in power tier.

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57 Mnemosyne
Minor Spirit

57 Mnemosyne

57 Mnemosyne is a large main-belt asteroid (S-type) discovered in 1859 and named after the Greek Titaness Mnemosyne. It is a non-sentient astronomical body studied for its orbital and rotational properties and has been used in dynamical measurements related to Jupiter.

Aamon
Greater

Aamon

Aamon (also Amon) is a named spirit in early modern Western grimoire tradition (Pseudomonarchia Daemonum; the Ars Goetia / Lesser Key of Solomon). He is presented as a high-ranking infernal officer (Marquis/Prince) who governs forty legions and is credited with knowledge of past and future and with affecting human relationships (reconciling or procuring feuds and favor).

Abrahel
Greater

Abrahel

Abrahel is a demonological entity attested in early modern sources (notably Nicholas Rémy's Demonolatria as summarized in modern reference) portrayed as a female sexual spirit who seduced a man in 1581, induced him to kill his son, then restored the child to life in exchange for worship; the revival produced a diminished, foul-smelling corpse that later died again.

Abraxas
Ancient

Abraxas

Abraxas (Abrasax) is a late‑antique Gnostic and magical name attested as a high-ranking cosmic power in heresiological summaries and as a potent name engraved on amulets (so-called Abraxas stones) in the Greco‑Roman magical milieu. Heresiologists associate Abraxas with rulership of 365 heavens and note the name's numerological value, while archaeological and papyrological contexts show its use as an amuletic formula.

Achamōth
Greater

Achamōth

Achamōth is a feminine emanational figure in certain Gnostic systems, attested as a daughter or subordinate aspect of the divine Wisdom, Sophia. She appears in ophitic/Naassene mythic genealogies where she is named as motherly/filial to lower, problematic figures such as Ilda‑Baoth; beyond this genealogical role the supplied sources record little concrete description or ritual material specific to her.

Adam Kadmon
Primordial

Adam Kadmon

Adam Kadmon (Hebrew: אָדָם קַדְמוֹן) is the Kabbalistic Primordial Man: a supra‑human, archetypal pattern or persona projected at the first stage of creation after God's contraction (tzimtzum). It is a metaphysical template corresponding to the highest aspect of divine intention and the sefirotic structure rather than a historical, corporeal individual.

Aedesia
Greater

Aedesia

Aedesia is a proper name attested in the supplied sources with three distinct referents: a fifth‑century Neoplatonic woman philosopher of Alexandria, a modern botanical genus (Aedesia O.Hoffm.) native to parts of West and Central Tropical Africa, and a reused toponym/moon name in a speculative fiction setting. None of the provided materials portray Aedesia as a supernatural being or attribute spiritlike powers to the name.

Aeon (Gnosticism)
Primordial

Aeon (Gnosticism)

In Gnostic religious systems an Aeon is a divine emanation or hypostasis that issues from the supreme divine source and together with other Aeons composes the Pleroma, the realm or fullness of divine reality. Aeons function as personified principles or powers (e.g., Nous, Sophia) that mediate between the ultimate One and lower levels of existence; their names, numbers, and relationships vary across Gnostic schools (Valentinian, Basilidian, Sethian, etc.).

Agaliarept
Greater

Agaliarept

A named high-ranking spirit from post-medieval grimoire tradition, presented in the Grimoirium Verum and the Grand Grimoire as a commanding officer in a hierarchical host of spirits; credited with revealing secrets and commanding a legion, and cited in later printed occult imprints and modern fiction.

Agares
Greater

Agares

Agares is a named, ranked spirit in the European grimoire tradition. Frequently presented as an elderly man associated with the eastern quarter, he is credited in multiple grimoires with teaching languages, stopping or retrieving runaway persons, causing earthquakes, and granting noble titles, and is invoked in evocations and object-binding experiments.

Agathos Daimon (Agathodaemon)
Lesser

Agathos Daimon (Agathodaemon)

A beneficent household and civic daemon attested in classical Greek and Graeco‑Egyptian religion. In domestic Greece it is a household spirit honored with post‑meal libations; in Ptolemaic Alexandria it appears prominently in serpentine civic and household forms and is syncretised with various Egyptian protective and fate deities in late antiquity.

Agrippa
Lesser

Agrippa

Agrippa is a polyvalent Latin personal name attested across Roman myth (a legendary king of Alba Longa), multiple historical figures (e.g., Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Agrippa Postumus, Herod Agrippa I & II), and a Renaissance occult author (Heinrich/Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa). The supplied sources treat Agrippa primarily as an onomastic label rather than a single, consistent supernatural entity.

Aiwass
Greater

Aiwass

Aiwass is the name given by Aleister Crowley to a discarnate intelligence that he reported as audibly dictating Liber AL vel Legis during three days in Cairo in April 1904. Crowley presents Aiwass as an objectively separate revelatory being, variously called the minister of Hoor‑paar‑kraat and later identified by Crowley with his Holy Guardian Angel.

Alastor
Greater

Alastor

Alastor (Ancient Greek: Ἀλάστωρ) is a concept-personification in Greek tradition denoting an avenging spirit or personified curse that punishes certain moral offences—especially familial bloodshed—and operates alongside chthonic avengers such as the Erinyes. Over time the term broadened to a secular insult and was reinterpreted in later Christian demonology as a type of possessing evil spirit.

Allocamelus
Minor Spirit

Allocamelus

An invented heraldic beast — a pictorial hybrid typically shown with an equine or donkey head and a camel's (usually single‑humped) body — used as a crest or armorial charge by English trading companies such as the Eastland Company.

Alloces
Greater

Alloces

Alloces (also spelled Allocer, Alocer, Allogor, Algor) is a named ducal spirit in post-medieval Western grimoire tradition, listed among the spirits of the Goetia (the Lesser Key of Solomon) and attested in variant form in the Liber Officiorum Spirituum. He is presented as an evocable intelligence who teaches sciences, commands legions of spirits, and appears with differing visual descriptions across sources.

Amaymon
Greater

Amaymon

Amaymon is a high-ranking infernal spirit—called a prince or king—named in Renaissance and later European grimoires as a cardinal or territorial ruler who exercises authority over other demons. Sources disagree whether he is king of the east (Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Lesser Key of Solomon) or king of the south (Liber Officiorum Spirituum, Clavis Inferni, Book of Abramelin); he is credited with a deadly/poisonous breath, the capacity to deceive lax exorcists, and figures in ritual schemes that restrain or regulate spirits.

Amduscias (Amdusias)
Lesser

Amduscias (Amdusias)

Amduscias (also spelled Amdusias) is a named entity appearing in lists of demons from the goetic tradition, most notably cited in modern compilations that draw from the Ars Goetia and related demonological works. The provided sources do not include a full primary grimoire entry for the name but show the term's reuse in contemporary music and gaming as an evocative cultural label.

Amdusias
Lesser

Amdusias

Amdusias is a named spirit listed in the goetic corpus (the Ars Goetia / Lesser Key of Solomon) described as the sixty-seventh spirit who commands twenty-nine legions; sources note his true form as a unicorn and that his arrival is accompanied by trumpets and musical sounds, and that he may assume human shape when evoked.

Amelius (Gentilianus)
Minor Spirit

Amelius (Gentilianus)

Amelius (Gentilianus) was a 3rd-century Neoplatonic philosopher and one of Plotinus's chief disciples, known for prolific writings, memorization of Numenius, and for promoting the preservation of Plotinus's doctrines. The name also recurs later as a personal name in medieval and modern contexts.

Amphiptere
Lesser

Amphiptere

A heraldic creature described in available sources as a winged serpent used in European heraldry; presented as a graphic emblem rather than a living supernatural being in the provided material.

Amphitryon
Minor Spirit

Amphitryon

Amphitryon is a mortal nobleman of Greek mythic-historical tradition: son of Alcaeus of Tiryns, husband of Alcmene, and the acknowledged stepfather of Heracles. He appears in heroic-age narratives as a warrior, dynastic actor, and the human whose identity is impersonated by Zeus in literary treatments that explore paternity and identity.

Amy
Lesser

Amy

Amy is a named demon listed in early modern and later European grimoires. The figure appears as an entry in demonological compilations such as The Lesser Key of Solomon, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, and the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic, and is recorded under variant transliterations in that corpus.

Ananiel
Ancient

Ananiel

Ananiel (Heb. עננאל; Greek Ανανιας) is a named angelic figure attested in the Book of Enoch tradition as one of the 20 leaders of the 200 Watchers, entrusted with aspects of vegetation and atmospheric phenomena; in later reception (notably a Coptic Orthodox tradition) he appears alternatively as one of seven holy archangels.

Andras
Greater

Andras

Andras is a named infernal spirit from the Western grimoire/Goetic tradition, described as a hostile officer who sows discord and is dangerous to conjurers; modern roleplaying adaptations recast him as a demon raised from murderous souls with a purpose to destroy mortals.

Andrealphus
Lesser

Andrealphus

Andrealphus is a spirit named in the Ars Goetia (Lesser Key of Solomon) tradition, described as a Marquis who governs thirty legions. He is classically credited with teaching geometry, mensuration, and astronomy and with the ability to assume or cause bird/peacock form.

Andromalius
Greater

Andromalius

Andromalius is a named spirit from post-medieval grimoire tradition (Ars Goetia–style catalogues) presented as a ranked officer who recovers stolen goods, exposes thieves and dishonest dealings, and punishes wrongdoers. He appears primarily in modern occult reference compilations derived from the Goetia; ritual details and physical description are not attested in the supplied grimoire excerpts.

Andromeda
Minor Spirit

Andromeda

Andromeda is a mortal princess in ancient Greek myth, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, who is offered as a sacrificial victim to the sea monster Cetus and rescued by the hero Perseus. Her story links human hubris, divine punishment, heroic rescue, and catasterism—she is later placed among the stars as the constellation Andromeda in some accounts.

Anguipede (motif)
Lesser

Anguipede (motif)

The anguipede is a Greco‑Roman visual motif depicting a human torso above serpentine lower limbs, found widely on magical gems, amulets, coins, and architectural reliefs. It functions primarily as an apotropaic or symbolic image in varied contexts rather than as a named mythic personage with a single coherent cult or narrative.

Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i
Lesser

Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i

Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i (Egyptian: ꜥnḫ-f-n-ḫnsw) was a historical Theban priest of the god Montu who lived in the late Third Intermediate to early Late Period (late 25th–early 26th Dynasty, c. 725 BCE). He is chiefly known as the dedicant of a painted wooden offering stele (Cairo A 9422, formerly Bulaq 666) made to guarantee his continued existence in the netherworld. In modern esoteric reception his name and stele were reinterpreted and adopted by Thelemic authors such as Aleister Crowley as a magical signature and symbol (the so-called "Stele of Revealing").

Anthropophage
Lesser

Anthropophage

A literary-mythical category of peoples described as cannibals in classical, medieval and later European literature and reference works. Originating in ancient ethnographic reports and transformed through compilations of marvels, the Anthropophage functions as an imaginative type marking exotic or monstrous others rather than a documented historical tribe.

Arariel
Lesser

Arariel

Arariel is an angel attested in rabbinic tradition as having charge over the waters of the Earth. Later popular and New Age sources expand this terse attribution into devotional uses (invocation for fishing, mental calm), but primary sources recorded here offer only the brief custodial office.

Archdemon (tradition)
Greater

Archdemon (tradition)

A high-ranking infernal or non‑human spiritual being that functions as a leader, king, or princely figure within hostile supernatural hierarchies. Appears across Christian/occult, Islamic/Middle Eastern, and Zoroastrian contexts as commanding subordinate demons, jinn, or evil spirits and acting in opposition to divine or benevolent spiritual authorities.

Archon (Gnosticism)
Ancient

Archon (Gnosticism)

In Gnostic traditions, an archon (Greek ἄρχων, árchōn) is a cosmic ruler or architect of the visible, material cosmos. Archons function as intermediate powers that construct, govern, and limit the created world and are frequently depicted as obstacles to the soul's return to higher spiritual realms.

Arcturan
Lesser

Arcturan

A modern, polyvalent label used in science fiction, fandom, and New Age/spiritual communities to denote beings, languages, or cultural attributes said to originate from the star Arcturus. Usage is contemporary and variable: in SF it names extraterrestrial races or languages; in New Age contexts it appears as a 'starseed' or channelled lineage and source of spiritual contact.

Asclepigenia
Lesser

Asclepigenia

Asclepigenia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιγένεια; fl. 430–485 AD) was a 5th‑century Neoplatonic philosopher and mystic active in Athens. She is attested as the daughter of Plutarch of Athens and as part of the Athenian philosophical succession; later biographical tradition reports that Proclus studied theurgy under her.

Asmodai
Greater

Asmodai

Asmodai (variants: Asmodeus, Asmodaeus, Ashmedai) is a named, kingly malign spirit attested in late-antique and medieval Judaeo-Christian narrative traditions — most prominently the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit and legends about Solomon — where he functions as a leading hostile spirit who troubles humans.

Astaroth
Greater

Astaroth

Astaroth is a named adversarial spirit in Christian demonological literature, commonly catalogued as a high-ranking infernal officer (described in sources as a 'Great Duke' or 'Grand Duke' of Hell). The figure represents the Christian polemical reception of ancient Near Eastern goddess-names (Astarte/Ashtoreth) recast within narratives and demonological lists and appears in medieval legendary episodes as well as later occult imagery and modern popular culture.

Aura (paranormal)
Lesser

Aura (paranormal)

Auras are described in modern esoteric and New Age sources as subtle, nonmaterial emanations or energy fields that surround living beings and objects, presented as part of a 'subtle body' and used diagnostically to indicate health, personality, or moral/spiritual state. The concept was popularized in late-19th/early-20th-century Western occultism (notably Theosophy) and later adapted by New Age and holistic-health practitioners; scientific investigation finds no reproducible evidence for literal aural perception and offers physical explanations for photographic effects often labeled as 'auras.'

Aurnavabha
Lesser

Aurnavabha

Aurnavabha (also attested as Aurṇavābha) is a name occurring in Vedic hymnic material (Rigveda) and later cited in bibliographic/theosophical indexes as a Vedic commentator. The sources present the name as textual/authorial rather than as an independently attested supernatural being.

Babalon
Greater

Babalon

A central goddess-figure in the Thelemic system founded by Aleister Crowley; simultaneously an archetypal Great Mother/Binah, a sacralized principle of liberated female sexuality, a ritual vessel (the Grail), and an office manifested historically as the "Scarlet Woman."

Bael
Greater

Bael

Bael (also spelled Baal or Ba'al) is a named kingly spirit appearing in post‑medieval European demonological grimoires. He is listed as the opening or first spirit in some catalogs (notably the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon) and is described in short summaries as a hoarsely voiced king; fuller ritual texts and attributes are not present in the supplied excerpts.

Balam
Lesser

Balam

Balam is a name that appears in modern secondary demonological compilations and in English-language reference listings as a demon-name; the supplied sources do not provide primary traditional descriptions, rites, or a sustained cosmology for a demon called Balam. The same lexical form (B'alam/Bahlam) is also a Maya-language word meaning 'jaguar' and occurs widely in Maya personal and place names, a distinct and unrelated usage.

Baphomet
Minor Spirit

Baphomet

Baphomet is a mutable Western esoteric and cultural figure: in medieval inquisitorial records the name labels an alleged idol or head invoked in accusations against the Knights Templar; in 19th‑century occultism Éliphas Lévi reimagined Baphomet as a symbolic androgynous human‑goat figure embodying reconciled opposites; in modern culture the term and imagery are widely repurposed across conspiracy discourse, art, and fiction.

Barbatos
Greater

Barbatos

Barbatos is a named spirit in European grimoire tradition, listed among the Seventy-Two spirits of The Lesser Key of Solomon and also appearing in the Grand Grimoire. He is given a ducal rank, commands legions of spirits, and is invoked in ceremonial contexts for knowledge, revelation of hidden things, and reconciliation.

Barbēlō
Primordial

Barbēlō

Barbēlō is a primary divine emanation (aeon) in several Gnostic theogonies, presented as the first thought and generative principle within the pleroma. She functions as an originating mediating principle through which subsequent divine manifestations arise and is central to certain Sethian and related Gnostic systems.

Baron Mordo
Greater

Baron Mordo

Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo is a recurring antagonist in Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange stories: a human Transylvanian nobleman and sorcerer trained under the Ancient One who turns to darker means—making deals with extradimensional and infernal powers—to gain magical power and oppose Stephen Strange.

Bathin
Greater

Bathin

Bathin is a named non‑human spirit from the early modern European grimoire tradition, listed among ranked intelligences that magicians could summon and command. Descriptions and attributes vary across grimoires, but he is commonly portrayed as a ducal spirit who knows the virtues of plants and stones, transports people, and rules multiple legions of subordinate spirits.

Beleth
Greater

Beleth

Beleth is a high-ranking infernal king attested in Renaissance and early-modern grimoire tradition, described as commanding eighty-five legions of demons and as a spirit that ritual conjurers may summon, test, or bind for specific ends.

Belphegor
Greater

Belphegor

Belphegor is a named infernal figure in Christian and later European literary and occult traditions, commonly identified in those traditions with the ancient Near Eastern figure Baal‑Peor. In demonological lists he is associated with particular vices (notably sloth, though some sources assign gluttony), and literary treatments depict him as a tempter who offers wealth, inventions, or incarnate visitation to lead humans into sin.

Bifrons
Lesser

Bifrons

Bifrons is a named spirit catalogued in Western grimoire and demonological compilations (notably the Lesser Key of Solomon and Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum). He is presented as a ranked operative spirit who can be summoned and is credited with teaching arts and sciences, knowledge of gems, woods and herbs, and with moving corpses from their graves.

Binah (בינה)
Ancient

Binah (בינה)

Binah (Hebrew: בִּינָה Bīnā, "understanding") is the third sephirah on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, a non-personal divine attribute that receives, contains and structures the undifferentiated creative impulse (Chokmah). It functions as an intellectual/metaphysical principle in Kabbalistic cosmology and psychology rather than as an independent, anthropomorphic spirit.

Bladud
Lesser

Bladud

Bladud is a legendary king of the Britons credited in medieval and later sources with founding the city of Bath and discovering the healing properties of its hot mud/springs. He appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical tradition and later retellings that amplify motifs of healing, learning, necromancy, and an attempted flight that causes his death.

Boars in Heraldry
Lesser

Boars in Heraldry

The boar (including the wild boar and the boar's head) is a recurring emblematic animal charge within European heraldry and related civic and family identity systems. Treated as a conventional heraldic device rather than a supernatural being, the boar functions as a visual signifier of lineage, allegiance, martial reputation and canting (name-play) across antiquity, the medieval period and into the early modern era.

Body of Light
Ancient

Body of Light

A layered-humanity concept from classical Neoplatonism through Renaissance and later esoteric traditions: a quasi-material luminous vehicle (also called the astral or subtle body) that mediates between the physical body and the divine, enabling ascent through planetary/heavenly spheres and serving as the carrier of certain mental faculties.

Botis
Greater

Botis

Botis is a named spirit from Renaissance and early modern ceremonial grimoires, variously ranked as a President, Earl, or Count. Appearing in sources such as the Ars Goetia (Lesser Key of Solomon), the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Otius), and mentioned in the Grand Grimoire as subordinate to Agaliarept, he is summoned by ritual operators to answer questions, reveal knowledge, and reconcile allies and enemies.

Buer
Greater

Buer

Buer is a named spirit recorded in Renaissance grimoire tradition (notably the 16th-century Pseudomonarchia Daemonum) described there as a Great President of Hell who commands fifty legions of demons. Modern occult, gaming, and fan sources have elaborated visual and ritual details not attested in the supplied historical extracts.

Bune
Greater

Bune

Bune is a ducal spirit in European grimoire tradition, listed in works such as the Lesser Key of Solomon, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Dictionnaire Infernal, and the Livre des Esperitz. Described as commanding many legions and able to move the dead, confer wealth, and grant eloquence and wisdom, Bune functions as a summonable operant office within early modern ceremonial magic.

Cacus
Greater

Cacus

Cacus is a monstrous, fire‑breathing giant of Roman myth who lived in a cave on the site of the future Rome (Aventine Hill/Forum Boarium). He stole cattle, preyed on humans, and was slain by the hero Heracles/Hercules; his death is etiologically linked to the founding of a local altar (the Ara Maxima) and to annual rites to Hercules in that district.

Caim
Greater

Caim

Caim is a named infernal intelligence attested in modern compilations of Western grimoire-derived materials. In secondary occult summaries he is listed among Goetic/solomonic demons, variably called Caim, Camio, or Caym, and is described as a ranked officer associated with imparting knowledge about animals and nature.