The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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iron Protection against evil, including DEMONs, vampires,
witches and evil spirits, and FAIRIES.
Iron repels the DJINN, and LILITH and other childbirth
demons and their children. Iron scissors or small implements
are placed at beds to ward off demonic attacks. Iron
objects placed in coffins and gravesites, and iron nails
driven into coffins and graves, prevent vampires and restless
ghosts from leaving their graves to attack the living.
Isacaaron DEMON of temptations of the flesh, who
played a prominent role in the LOUDUN POSSESSIONS in
France in the 17th century. Isacaaron especially possessed
and plagued the mother superior, JEANNE DES
ANGES, and was blamed for her false pregnancy. The
demon jumped from Jeanne into one of her EXORCISTs,
Father JEAN-JOSEPH SURIN.
Itzpapalotl Aztec female DEMON and patroness of
witches. The name Itzpapalotl means “obsidian knife
butterfly.” She can wear a magic cloak that turns her into
a butterfly. Sometimes she appears in a more demonic
form, as a female with large butterfly wings edged with
obsidian knives, a skull head covered in thick white
makeup, a knife for a tongue, fingers with jaguar claws,
and toes with eagle claws.
Itzpapalotl once resided in heaven but fell along
with the TZITZIMIME. As a demon, she took over the ruling
of witches and presides over 13 unlucky signs of
the calendar. On those days, she takes a horde of dead
witches, who have shape shifted into butterflies and
flies, through towns and forests, shrieking and screaming.
In order to appease her and her horde, people sacrifice
deer.