Abaddon
(The Destroyer). Chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy. Abaddon is the name given by St.
John in the Apocalypse to the king of the grasshoppers. He is sometimes regarded as the destroying angel.
Abadie (Jeannette): A young sorceress of the village of Sibourre, in Gascony. She was sleeping one day in her father's house while high mass was being said. A demon, profiting by the opportunity, carried her off to the Devil's Sabbath, where she soon awoke to find herself in the midst of a large company. She observed that the principal demon had on his head two faces, like Janus. She did not participate in the revelry, and was transported to her home by the same means as she had been conveyed thence. the threshold she found her amulet, which the demon had taken the precaution to remove from her bosom before carrying her off. She made a confession of all that had happened, renounced her sorcery, and thus saved herself from the common fate of witches and sorcerers-the stake. On