The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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Hutriel An angel of punishment who lives in the fifth
camp of HELL and helps to punish the 10 nations. The
name Hutriel means “rod of God.” Hutriel is sometimes
equated with Oniel.
Hydriel DEMON and a wandering duke of the air.
Hydriel has 100 great dukes and 200 lesser dukes and
their servants beneath him. The 12 chief dukes each have
1,320 servants. All the demons must be summoned
according to their appropriate planetary hour. When they
appear, each has the form of a SERPENT with a virgin’s
head and face. Unlike the spirits of BURIEL, they are courteous
and obedient. They prefer to be around water and
moist places. The 12 major dukes of Hydriel are Mortoliel,
Chamoriel, Pelariel, Musuziel, Lameniel, Barchiel,
Samiel, Dusiriel, Camiel, Arbiel, Luciel, and Chariel.
Hyslop, James Hervey (1854–1920) American philosopher,
psychologist, educator, and professor of ethics,
whose interest in survival after death led him to conduct
some of the finest studies of POSSESSION and OBSESSION.
James Hervey Hyslop was born on August 18, 1854,
to devout Presbyterians in Xenia, Ohio. His parents expected
him to enter the ministry, but instead he studied
philosophy and the emerging field of psychology, receiving
a bachelor of arts in 1877 from Wooster College,
Wooster, Ohio. Despite his religious upbringing, Hyslop
professed skepticism about the divinity of Christ by the
time he reached college and, after some study, decided to
reject the New Testament.
After graduation, Hyslop enrolled at the University of
Leipzig, Germany, to study with Wilhelm Wundt, who
founded the first formal psychology laboratory in 1879. In
Leipzig, he met his wife-to-be, Mary F. Hall, a student of
music from Philadelphia. Hyslop returned to the United
States two years later, teaching first at Lake Forest University,
outside Chicago, then at Smith College in Northampton,
Massachusetts. He continued his own education at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, completing a doctorate
in psychology in 1887, and published several books
about logic, ethics, education, and philosophy. From 1889
to 1902, he was professor of logic and ethics at Columbia
University in New York City. As was typical of other educated
men of the period, Hyslop exhibited eclectic tastes,
also exploring geology and biology.
He knew nothing about the psychic until 1886, when
an article on telepathy in Nation caught his attention. The
article concerned a young boy who reportedly saw an apparition
of his father and his team of horses going over a
bank into a stream some 25 miles away. Hyslop suspected
the story was “some illusion of memory or error in judgment
as to the facts.” He wrote to the author of the article
and received answers to his questions that convinced him
the phenomenon might be genuine.
At Columbia Hyslop, through his colleagues, became
acquainted with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR)
in England and the American Society for Psychical Research
(ASPR) (founded in 1882 and 1885, respectively)
and with the research concerning the British medium Leonora
Piper conducted by Richard Hodgson. In 1888, he
began a series of sittings with Piper. Initially skeptical,
he was astonished when Piper began relaying personal
messages from his dead father and various relatives. By
his 12th sitting, he was convinced he had communicated
with the spirits of his family.
In 1889, the ASPR became a branch of the SPR out of
financial need and remained so until the death of Hodgson
in 1905. In 1906, the ASPR reorganized as an independent
organization, and Hyslop became its president, a
position he held until his death in 1920.
Hyslop’s most famous case was the THOMPSON/GIF-
FORD OBSESSION in 1907, in which a metalworker, Frederic
L. Thompson, claimed to been taken over by a deceased
painter, R. Swain Gifford. After the Thompson/Gifford
case, Hyslop continued to work extensively with various
mediums, principally Minnie Soule, and ran the operations
of the ASPR. He also wrote all the society’s papers,
as well as magazine and journal articles.
Casework fascinated Hyslop. He investigated the
story of S. Henry, a coachman in New Jersey who was
tormented by the death of his wife and his increasingly
frightening psychical experiences. Henry described feelings
of a strange fluid in his stomach, which forced him to
breathe in a certain way, then rose to his brain and made
him insane. He also wrote that he felt he could leave his
body through an opening in the back of his head. Hyslop
did not recognize Henry’s symptoms as those of kundalini
and out-of-body experiences. By 1908, almost two years
after Hyslop had first met him, Henry was suffering from
delusions and had become insane. Hyslop took Henry
to the ASPR in New York, where he hypnotized him and
tried to encourage him to forget his troubles. The simple
treatment worked. Never having confronted out-of-body
experiences before, Hyslop attributed Henry’s problems
to spirit possession.
In 1909, Hyslop, met Etta De Camp, a medium currently
living in New York City who had been psychic since
her childhood in Ohio. She was an editor and proofreader
for Broadway magazine who had never written anything
besides letters until 1908. After reading about spirit communications
received by W. T. Stead through automatic
writing, De Camp decided to try. She reported a tingling
in her arm, like an electric shock, and after two or three
days began writing copiously.
De Camp experienced terrible headaches and earaches
at this time, usually if she tried to resist the writing. She
found some relief while in trance but refused to lose conscious
control. The scripts made little sense to her, and
she complained to the spirits that if they could not write
well, they should take someone to her who could. From
that point on, the scripts became more coherent. Her first
communicator was an Indian brave, who reported that he