and with Halloween being so near,
I decided to look up vampires in the Dictionnaire Infernal, the 1863 edition as it is illustrated, the previous editions were not,
and sure enough on page 680 this little chap was illustrated as a vampire, the listing starts on page 677,
and in case you are wondering this is what Adramelech looks like, I am guessing that he is the vampire's boss, as Adramelech
is a Great Chancellor of the underworld and President of the High Council of
Devils, and here is a word that I have occasionally heard,
a Behemoth, and now I know what one looks like! in case you are wondering, in the book the Behemoth is a “heavy and stupid demon” Collin de Plancy wrote that some “commentators pretend that it is the whale, and others that it is the elephant”, Le Breton chose to depict Behemoth as a bipedal version of the latter, clutching his hairy, engorged belly, and I did not know what a Behemoth looked like that until today!
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