Cacodemon

A cacodemon (also spelled cacodaemon, cacodaimon, kakodemon, kakodaemon, or kakodaimon) is an evil spirit or (in the modern sense of the word) a demon. The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit or angel. The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμωνkakodaimōn, meaning an "evil spirit", whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in Greek. It is believed to be capable of shapeshifting.^[1] A cacodemon is also said to be a malevolent person. A cacodemon is depicted as a horned (or winged browed) youth with oversized genitalia trailing between his legs in Greek mythology.

In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemonomania) is a form of insanity in which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit. The first known occurrence of the word cacodemon dates to 1593.

In astrology, the 12th house was once called the Cacodemon for its association with evil.^[2][3] Defined as "a noise-making devil", Jane Davidson has noted an illustrated example of a cacodemon in editions of Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrum Historia (Story of Monsters) as late as 1696.^[4]

• There is a painting by Paul Klee called Cacodaemonic (1916).^[5]
• In William Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 3, Queen Margaret calls Richard a "cacodemon" for his foul deeds and manipulations.^[6]
• In John Fletcher's The Knight of Malta, Norandine calls Mountferrat, the play's villain, a "cacodemon" in the final scene.^[7]
• A cacodemon enemy appears in the Doom video game series, starting with the first game in 1993.^[8]
• En las novelas de Rick Riordan, El Sol y la Estrella y La Corte de los Muertos , la diosa primordial Nyx crea una docena de cacodemonios a partir de las emociones de Nico di Angelo . Conocidos cariñosamente como los Cocoa Puffs, los cacodemonios representan las diversas emociones de Nico y lo ayudan a él y a Will Solace en sus aventuras.

• Religión de la antigua Grecia
• Genio : naturaleza divina en la religión romana antigua. 
• Mitología griega : conjunto de mitos originarios de la antigua Grecia. 
• Jinn : seres sobrenaturales en la cultura árabe y el Islam. 

• Sinistrari, Ludovico María (1879). Demonialidad: O, Íncubos y Súcubos . París: Isidoro Liseux. OCLC 263027215 .