Monday, May 2, 2011

B is for "Buer"

This one was a toss-up between the demonic dog Black Shuck and the demon Buer. I decided to go with Buer simply because I'll probably write about Black Shuck in a later post. (He's a character in a couple of my stories.)

Anyway, Buer is served by 50 legions of demons and is also the character in Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiego (a Polish film based on Faust), according to Finlay Cowan's Dragons and Fantasy Beasts. (I love foreign films and this isn't available on Netflix. Grr...)

Sorry. Distracted. Buer has a lion's head and five goat legs (Cowan). According to The Dictionary of Demons (Michelle Belanger), Buer "teaches a wide variety of disciplines, from moral and natural philosophy to logic. He also teaches the virtues of herbs and can heal disease... He is constrained by the angel Aladiah."

4 comments:

V.R. Leavitt said...

Fascinating post!! Sorry you missed out on the A-Z Challenge last month, but I can't wait to see what you come up with for this one. :-) Good luck!

PamelaTurner said...

Thanks, V.R. :-) I've been meaning to do this off and on. For some reason I decided to do it now. Yep, I'm a rebel. (Snicker)

Debbie Herbert said...

I will be checking this daily - great idea.

PamelaTurner said...

Thanks, Debbie. :-) It's not an original idea but one I've been meaning to do for a few months now.