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Berith
Beale · Bofry · Bolfry
A soldier in red clothing, with a golden crown, upon a red horse.
Gives true answers of things past, present and to come, turns all metals into gold, and gives and confirms dignities.
“A great liar, not to be trusted” — one must address him only through the magic ring, as with Astaroth. The name goes back to the biblical Baal-berith, “lord of the covenant” (Judges 8:33).
Once a prince of the Cherubim order, Berith fell with Lucifer and became Hell's chief secretary and head of its public archives, notarizing pacts with the Devil and presiding as grand pontiff of the Order of the Fly. He is identified with Baal-Berith, the covenant god of Beirut and Canaan whose cult was crushed by King Abimelech — hence, the wiki suggests, his grudge against organized religion. Alchemists revered him as the power that transmutes base metals into gold, and during the famous Aix-en-Provence possession he reportedly volunteered the names of his fellow demons and of the saints most effective against them. Folk magic offered him a pact sealed with a black chicken's blood: twenty years of service, after which Berith claims his reward.
Berith turns metals to gold and answers truly. One of the two is a lie.
Make an offering · BerithIn the message with your offering, name the spirit and state your petition — the keeper will enter them in the ledger.