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Lilû (wind) demons are the class to which Pazuzu and his subjects belong. [6] There is a connection to the earlier Babylonian personifications of The Four Winds. [15] These beings, as depicted on several cylinder seals, have wings, and each represents a different wind direction; South, East, West, and North. [15]
Pazuzu is a fictional character who is the main antagonist in The Exorcist horror novels and film series, created by William Peter Blatty.Blatty derived the character from Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, where the mythic Pazuzu was considered the king of the demons of the wind, and the son of the god Hanbi.
Regan (Linda Blair) was possessed by the demon Pazuzu in the original 1973 classic "The Exorcist." But the death of Blatty's Lebanese-born, fervently Catholic mother changed everything.
McCambridge provided the dubbed voice of Pazuzu, the demon possessing the young girl Regan (played by Linda Blair) in The Exorcist. To sound as disturbing as possible, McCambridge insisted on swallowing raw eggs, chain smoking and drinking whiskey to make her voice harsh and her performance aggressive.
Articles relating to Pazuzu, his origins, and his depictions.He was a personification of the southwestern wind, and held kingship over the lilu wind demons. 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.
The demon Pazuzu, who first appeared in the early Iron Age, [12] likely draws his iconography and much of his character from the Four Winds. He is also assigned the role of king over the lilu or wind demons as a category.
Merrin, an elderly Irish priest and paleontologist on an archeological dig in Iraq, finds images of the demon Pazuzu and subsequently experiences other unusual phenomena. He had previously faced the demon many years before during an exorcism in Africa. The find sparks a premonition that he will battle the demon again in a distant land.
Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist. Before there was The Conjuring or any horror film about demons and devils, there was The Exorcist.Poor Regan MacNeil—she’s a 12-year-old girl who plays with an ...
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