10 passagesc. 1st–5th century CEHebrew / Aramaic / GreekPublic Domain; CC-BY
Individual passages from Testament of Solomon, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
A demon was feeding on a child. Every evening, after the workers building the Temple in Jerusalem finished their labor, a spirit called Ornias descended upon the boy who served the...
Testament of Solomon turns to An Evil Demoness. Onoskelis wasn't your garden-variety demon. Imagine this: the torso of a beautiful woman, but instead of legs, she had… the legs of ...
The boy dragged the demon Ornias to the palace gates. The spirit stood there shuddering, trembling, crying out and offering silver and gold to anyone who would free him. But no one...
"The Nefilim were in the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of...
Solomon asked Onoskelis one final question: "Under what star do you pass?" "Under the full moon," she answered, "because the moon travels over most things." "And what angel defeats...
Solomon pressed Beelzeboul further. "If you want a respite from your labor, tell me about the things in heaven." The prince of demons leaned forward. "If you burn gum, incense, and...
A demon without a head was brought before Solomon. It had all the limbs of a man, arms, legs, torso. But where the head should have been, there was nothing. Just a stump above the ...
A winged dragon with the face and hands of a man rolled into Solomon's court. Its body was scaled like a serpent, but its limbs were human, and great wings folded against its back....
The parade of demons continued. One by one the thirty-six spirits of the zodiac stepped forward before Solomon's throne, each confessing the disease it inflicts and the angel whose...
The thirty-sixth and final zodiac demon, Bianakith, confessed: "I lay waste houses and cause flesh to decay. But if a man writes certain holy names on the front door of his home, I...
