Kakodæmon

‘Even the storms, even the waves, not merely the kakodæmons, give way before him.’

Mr. Madden seems to think that literary men are often haunted by a ‘kakodæmon’—his own kakodæmon seems to be the spirit of self-contradiction; for after Sir Walter has been thus produced and applauded in a work on the Infirmities of Genius, as a genius without infirmity, Mr. Madden takes a sudden turn, and discovers that he was afflicted, like Cowper, Burns, and Byron, with one of ‘the extreme forms of dyspepsia;’ […]

The conceits of Eudæmons and Kakodæmons of the oldest mythologists; the theurgy and demonology of the most superstitious heathens; the most fanciful religious notions of many East Indians, their Dews, Amshadpans, Izeds, Fervers, & c.; what are all these compared with Hahnemann’s virtues developed from one grain of a simple drug, “developed by art and not by reason of the original matter,” (Concise View, page 14.) developed ad infinitum at his pleasure with different degrees of power from all natural substances by his homœopathic manipulations!—powers acting not only with volition, but with the most judicious medical reflection, since they either suspend their action, when it appears to them better to do so; […]

Kak (Eg.), Gig (Akkadian) is Darkness, the Shadow of the Night, a name of the Black One, and Inner Africa is the primæval home of the Kakodæmon who, as Kakios, was the stealer of the cows which he had dragged into his cave, when Hercules forced his way into the monster’s den and, in spite of the flames and smoke which Kakios vomited, overcame him and rescued the cattle and recovered the rest of the stolen treasures.

The word demon frequently occurs in both the Old and New Testaments, and is there translated devil; but that was by no means its acceptation among the Greeks, for we have frequent mention of agathodæmons (good demons) as well as kakodæmons (evil demons), which were supposed to be supernatural spiritual existences that accompanied or took possession of individuals, especially of the insane.

The early Christians—besides the Ophite Gnostics—had their dual Logos: the Good and the Bad Serpent, the Agathodæmon and the Kakodæmon.

This book charts the wilderness as contained in the notebooks: the dæmons and kakodæmons, the symbols of boat, isle, eye, star, veil, cave, and dream.

I recognized him from The Eschata Entity Spotter: a tenth-level kakodæmon, whose stench can kill.