It is a painful process, but he’s too young to remember it. They cut his tail, pull his fangs, and file off his horns. The couple knows that they should kill the impling, but they decide to raise him as if he is human and hide his true nature. It starts with a poor couple wishing for children and then finding two babies when they go to the river to wash clothes.

The most famous of these legends is “Kveta and the Demon”, I even remember seeing picture books depicting this tale. See: the Satanics Class.etx See: Ancient Species.etx) Human fear is a poisonously powerful force and the fear for this species of demons is written into almost every legend of the European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures. (There is archaeological evidence of more formidable ancient species. The stigma against Levisti is probably the longest and more deeply entrenched, mostly because they are said to be the most powerful of the modern demon species. I have no way to confirm or deny this, however, as no one has reported seeing a Levistus within the last 50 years, and even that time was a corpse. If my research into demons has taught me anything, it is that the assumptions made about them are more than often wrong. They are said to be the deadliest of all demons, a single member of the species capable of wiping out villages in retribution for a slight against them.Īt least, that’s what is said about them. Creatures of myths, more than reality, Levistus have been hunted to near extinction and stalk the pages of storybooks more than their native homeland of Eastern Europe. Leviathan (archaic).Ī Levistus is probably the demon species that haunts the nightmares of humans the most. Status: Critically Endangered – Probably Extinct In legends, these demons were symbols of bad luck or coming doom and most of this species was hunted to extinction because of this belief. Levistus (n.) – a demon of wrath that is said to be the harbinger of storms and tragedy.

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