Keteb

Keteb: A demon named in Psalms 91:6 alongside the demon of midday-who apparently does not warrant a proper name. According to Reverend W 0.E. Oesterley in his authoritative work of 1921, Immortality and the Unseen World, the name Keteb is from a Hebrew root. In modern versions of the Bible, the word is often translated as “plague.” In this, Keteb can be connected to a number of Sumerian and Babylonian demons of disease. In the rabbinical commentary on the Psalms known as the Midrash Tehillim, Keteb is deKhailaw scribed as being a poisonous demon covered with
both scales and hair. He purportedly has only one good eye in his face, as the other is inexplicably located in the middle of his heart. He is a demon of twilight, achieving his greatest power neither in full darkness nor in full light but in the midpoints in between. He is supposedly most active from the seventeenth of July through the ninth of August.

SEE ALSO:

• List of Demons
• Demonology

SOURCE:

The Dictionary of Demons written by Michelle Belanger.

NOTE:

Edited and revised for the Web by Occult Media, the 22nd of April 2021. We use British English spelling.