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(bĕl, bāl, bĭl) 
n.
The round to pear-shaped, yellowish edible fruit of a chiefly Indian tree (Aegle marmelos), used in southern Asia as a food and as a medicine to treat dysentery.
n.
The round to pear-shaped, yellowish edible fruit of a chiefly Indian tree (Aegle marmelos), used in southern Asia as a food and as a medicine to treat dysentery.
[Hindi bēl, akin to Sanskrit bilvaḥ, of Dravidian origin, akin to Tamil viḷā, viḷavu.]
A demon cited in the Grand Grimoire; head of the infernal powers. It is with him that Johan Weyer commenced his inventory of the famous Pseudonomarchia Daemonum. He alluded to Bael as the first monarch of hell and said that his estates are situated on the eastern regions thereof. He had three heads, that of a crab, a cat, and a man. Sixty-six legions obey him.
Sources:
Weyer, Johannes. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De Praestigiis. Edited by George Mora. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991.
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