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In demonology, Belphegor (or Beelphegor, baʿal-pəʿōr - Lord of the Gap) is a demon, and one of the seven princes of Hell, who helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich. According to some 16th-century demonologists, his power is stronger in April. Bishop and witch-hunter Peter Binsfeld believed that Belphegor tempts by means of laziness. Also, according to Peter Binsfeld's Binsfeld's Classification of Demons, Belphegor is the chief demon of the deadly sin known as Sloth in Christian tradition.
Belphegor originated as the Assyrian Baal-Peor, the Moabitish god to whom the Israelites became attached in Shittim ( Numbers 25:3), which was associated with licentiousness and orgies. It was worshipped in the form of a phallus. As a demon, he is described in Kabbalistic writings as the "disputer", an enemy of the sixth Sephiroth "beauty". When summoned, he can grant riches, the power of discovery and ingenious invention. His role as a demon was to sow discord among men and seduce them to evil through the apportionment of wealth.
The palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, due to the significance of containing the number 666, on both sides enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one.
According to De Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, Belphegor was Hell's ambassador to France. Consequently, his adversary is St Mary Magdalene, one of the patron saints of France. Belphegor also figures in John Milton's Paradise Lost and in Victor Hugo's The Toilers of the Sea.
Belphegor is the name of a demon. The name has inspired other uses as well:
- Belphegor (band), an Austrian blackened death metal band
- Belfegore, a German gothic new wave band
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Belphégor (novel), a 1927 horror novel by Arthur Bernède
- Belphegor (comics), a comic created by Bernède, based on his novel
- Belphégor ou le Fantome du Louvre, a 1965 French television mini-series with Juliette Greco
- Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre, a 2001 French horror movie based on Bernède's novel
- Citroën Belphégor, the popular moniker of a line of French trucks
- PZL M-15 Belphegor, an agricultural jet biplane
- Belfaygor of Bourne, a character in Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz
- Belphegor, a character from the anime/manga Reborn!
- Belphégor (1927 film), a film by Henri Desfontaines
- Belfagor arcidiavolo, a novella by Niccolò Machiavelli written between 1518 and 1527
Belphegor is a blackened death metal band from Salzburg, Austria. They originally formed in 1991 under the name Betrayer before changing their name in 1993. They are named after the demon Belphegor.
Belphegor was a 1965 daily comic strip sequel to a popular French television miniseries by the same name. Both were based on a 1927 novel written by Arthur Bernède (1871–1937) which starred the villainous Belphegor, the "Ghost of the Louvre".
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Belphégor (English title The Mystery of the Louvre) is a 1927 crime novel by French writer Arthur Bernède, about a "phantom" which haunts the Louvre Museum, in reality a masked villain trying to steal a hidden treasure. It was simultaneously adapted as a movie serial starring René Navarre as Chantecoq, Bernède's fictional detective, and Elmire Vautier as the villainous Belphégor.
Belphégor inspired several other adaptations, including an eponymous 1965 French television series starring Juliette Greco in the title role (but without Chantecoq), a 1965 daily comic strip sequel to the TV series, a 2001 film starring Sophie Marceau, and a 2001 French-Canadian animated television series.
The 1966 film La Malédiction de Belphégor has nothing to do with Bernède's version and was made to cash in on the 1965 television series' popularity.