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Ah yes, my old friend Asmodeus.

I once wrote a story about the demonic succubus Asmodeus and Zabulon and their quest to create cambion, or demon children that over run the earth with a pestilence of lust and filthy fornication. It took place in 1860 and I based the priest--who is an expert on demonology and carries with him the grimories (ancient texts concerning the demon underworld) Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, Le Dragon Rouge written in fifteen seventeen by Alibeck the Egyptian and The Book of Abramelin--on our friend Blacknumber.

The story is called The Number of Darkness. It was Pasta of the Month a while back.

Well, the reason I chose Asmodeus and Zabulon is because of a very fascinating piece of history. It is the story of Urbain Grandier a priest who was burned at the stake in 1634 in Loudun France. He was a sexually active priest who even wrote an essay attacking the doctrine of clerical celibacy. Apparently the nuns of the local Ursuline convent had taken to having great sex orgies and blamed him for their lewd behavior. They accused him of being in legal with the devil and after a lengthy trial where he was tortured and his head shaved he was burned alive, though most modern historians agree this was a political power move.

I bring this case up because it is the sex demons charged in this instance that I used in my story, namely Asmodeus, Zabulon, Gressil, and Amand. I came across their names while reading about this case and thought it fitting to use them. You can check them all out on wikipedia. I'm betting my buddy Shawn joins this discussion, as he is an expert in Demonology.

Most fascinating, the court even offered up the contract Grandier signed with the demons (do you think it's real? It is in backwards Latin!)

Here is that contract with the demons that was presented in court in 1634 as proof that Urbain Grandier was in league with demons: