My skills are in witchcraft; Chaos Magic; Sorcery; Hoodoo; and of course, working with the "demons". Cast of Original Pazuzu Statue: The Louve museum in Paris has limited numbers of Pazuzu statues, made from a cast of the original. In another text he is perceived as more malicious, as the narrator addresses him as "Agony of Mankind", [16] "Suffering of Mankind", [16] "Disease of Mankind", [16] and chants telling the demon to not enter the home. The individual mortal would have had nothing to fear from the demon because they were honoring him by asking for his protection and, when he came, he would turn his demonic powers on those threatening his charges, not on the individual mortal who had invoked him. In the film, Pazuzu is a demon who possesses the body of a young girl named Regan, transforming her from an innocent little girl into a foul-mouthed, blistered nightmare who expels green slime from her throat and twists her head a full 180 degrees.

Some Rights Reserved (2009-2023) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted. The demon really goes hard at Karras; it's almost as if Regan is just a temporary residence until he can lure someone like the doubting priest.

However, with the aid of the priest Father Tomas and her family, Regan fights back against Pazuzu, regaining control of her mind, just as Father Tomas exorcises the demon from her body. As an apotropaic entity, he was considered as both a destructive and dangerous wind, but also as a repellant to other demons, one who would safeguard the home from their influence. There are several scenes in which the viewer can see the face of Pazuzu flashing quickly on the screen in The Exorcist. His first visual depictions are not attested until the 8th century BC [17] with the first finds being in the tombs of Nimrud, [18] and his first appearances in texts trace to the 7th century BC. One of the best ways to protect one's self against such attacks was to find a protector in an equally powerful demon who would stand between an individual and the wrath of the gods as a shield.

In the novel, the author shows the priest handling a small statue of Pazuzu, not gazing upon a large figure, and this is also accurate. He has the body of a man, the head of a lion or dog, eagle-like taloned feet, two pairs of wings, a scorpion's tail, and a serpentine penis. If you’re seriously about demonology, this is the stuff we’ve all been waiting for – to hold in our hand a piece of history that dates back to at least 600 bce. Had it existed, the statue would have probably seemed archaic to the Parthians, a survival from an earlier period whose identity and meaning may even have been forgotten, as they are in the movie itself.There are many artefacts in its collections that are associated with various books of the Bible - the current exhibition Babylon makes these links explicit. When applied to clothes, bronze fibulae - brooch-like safety-pins - bearing the head of Pazuzu probably protected mother and baby.