The Pseudomonarchia Daemonum is the work of Johann Weyer: a Dutch doctor whose opinion on whether demons were real was as mercurial as the weather in North Carolina—which is to say, very. The Pseudomonarchia offers information about 69 demons—but not the Biggest of Bads (Lucifer, Beelzebub, etc)—and provides instructions for summoning them—thoroughly annotated with all the condemning margin notes you need to talk you out of it. Let’s begin with “Primus Rex”: the first king, Baël.
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