

Another tale suggests that God created every creature, except the fly - which was made by the Devil. He’d acquired it by visiting a plague of flies upon the harvest of Canaan, or, perhaps, simply because flies were once believed to be generated in the flesh of decaying corpses. When summoned by witches or sorcerers, he appeared in the form of a fly, because “Lord of the Flies” was his nom de guerre, as it were.

Once he took up his new residence in Hell, Beelzebub learned to tempt men with pride. By the sixteenth century, however, demonologist Johann Wierus was listing Beelzebub as supreme chieftain of Hell, with Satan below him.Īccording to demonology’s lore, when Satan first rebelled, he recruited several very powerful seraphim, Beelzebub among them, to fight at his side. In those early days, Satan outranked Beelzebub. He was called the prince of devils by the Pharisees.Īccording to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, Jesus gave Beelzebub dominion over Hell in gratitude for helping remove Adam and other pre-Christian, unbaptized ‘saints in prison’ and bringing them to Heaven, over Satan’s objections. One of the oldest and most famous demonic figures, Beelzebub also had command over disease - flies congregate around the corpses of the dead, and spread disease from the dead to the living - and his role is to tempt men with pride.

This title could only properly apply to Solomon in his temple, so the Jews changed the name to Beelzebub which translates as ‘Lord of Flies’, possibly because of his supposedly role as creator and controller of the flies in the Philistine city of Ekron. Francis of Assisiīeelzebub was also known as Achor by the Cyreneans, which probably meant ‘Lord of the High House’, referring to the Canaanite chief god ‘Baal the prince’.

He tempts men with pride and is opposed by St. Beelzebub, along with Lucifer and Leviathan, were the first three angels to fall. Or the Goetic Demon “BAEL” History of Beelzebubīeelzebub was a prince of the Seraphim, just below Lucifer. Other names: BAALZEBUB, ENLIL, BEL, “PIR BUB”* BAAL ZEBUL and BEELZEBUTH
