Demon Babies The carryover from goat-devil worship to ancient rituals and dealings with demons parallel one another. Certain demons became known for a variety of illnesses, such as the demon Pazuzu, profoundly associated with bringing infections of malaria to areas. In addition, this demon transpires as being linked to malformed persons described as goat or demon monster babies; who are mentioned also by Plato and Aristotle. They discussed such a phenomenon as humans producing children that resemble animals called terata, resembling beast instead of their parents. Moreover, the ancient Talmud mentions unnatural malformed babies or grotesque beings that came from demons. The text references aborted fetuses that had serious malformations with wings and long horns, along with hideous faces and lion 's claws. In Babylon, Pazuzu occurs as being described as a creature with a monstrous head, often times with goat’s horns atop a naked, withered human 's body. Reportedly, these creatures mutated and transformed into human bodies, having goat body appearances (again, this occurs as another confirmation for the desert Seirim). …show more content…
Specifically, described as the “Assyrian-Babylonian demon of disease and evil;” whereupon, occurs engraved on a wall at Nineveh (ancient city Ninua), capital of the Assyrian Empire at its height (approximately 705-612 B.C.), located on the Tigris River in northern Iraq. Mesopotamian literature contains a large number of demonic names and their numbers were almost without limit. Another demon the ancient Israelites believed in became known as the shaydim, and again communicated with the people to tell of impending events. The Zabii, and the Chaldeans tribes, believed heavily in demons that had the form of goats. Intrinsically, the Zabii were known to kill newborn human infants and freakishly beat the body of the child all to pieces and finally consume its