The spell was omitted from the early versions of the second edition of the game, and was later revised in the Planescape product line, in which it could summon a variety of powerful tanar'ri or baatezu. It was used to summon a type IV, V, or VI demon to the player character's location in the game world. In the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, " Cacodemon" is a seventh level magic-user spell.It is never shown, but when Grumble and Snaggly escape from Boon and Irvin in the sewers with half the payroll, Irvin says to Boon to lock the grate back as the treasure now belongs to the Cacodemon that lives in the sewers, the reason why Wormy kept it locked up.
There's a Cacodemon in the sewers of Wormy's lair in the Wormy comics for Dragon Magazine (124) by David Trampier.There is a boulder in Squamish, Canada called Cacodemon it is the location of the climb Dreamcatcher, a 5.14d (9a) first climbed by Chris Sharma.There is a painting by Paul Klee called Cacodaemonic (1916).Nunslaughter's second full album, Goat, contains a song called "As the Cacodemons Feast".Deicide's second album, Legion, contains a song called "Satan Spawn, the Caco-Daemon".Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld novels feature cacodemons and eudemons, some of whom have produced semi-human-like progeny in this context eudemons are not so much "good" as "non-chaotic".In the book and TV series The Magicians by Lev Grossman the main characters each have a Cacodemon magically implanted into their backs.Historia (Story of Monsters) as late as 1696. Defined it as "a noise-making devil", Jane Davidson has noted an illustrated example of a cacodemon in editions of Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrum In astrology, the 12th house was once called the Cacodemon for its association with evil. In The Arbatel de Magi Veterum, written in 1575, the word Cacodemon is described as one of the Seven. In John Fletcher's The Knight of Malta, Norandine calls Mountferrat, the play's villain, a "cacodemon" in the final scene. In William Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 3, Queen Margaret calls Richard a "cacodemon" for his foul deeds and manipulations.
The first known occurrence of the word cacodemon dates to 1593. In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemonomania) is a form of insanity in which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit. A cacodemon is also said to be a malevolent person. It is believed to be capable of shapeshifting. The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων kakodaimōn, meaning an "evil spirit", whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in Greek.
The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit or angel. Louis Le Breton's illustration of a cacodemon from the Dictionnaire Infernal (1863)Ī cacodemon (or cacodaemon) is an evil spirit or (in the modern sense of the word) a demon.
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