A cacodemon (or cacodaemon) is an evil spirit or (in the modern sense of the word) a demon. The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit. The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων (kakodaimōn) meaning an evil spirit, whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in Greek and Tychodaimon would be a good spirit. In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemomania) is a form of insanity in which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit. The first known occurrence of the word cacodemon dates to 1398. In Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 3, Queen Margaret calls Richard a "cacodemon" for his foul deeds and manipulations.
Enochian Cacodaemons[]
The word cacodaemon first appeared in the six-tenth century. There are fifty-seven Cacodaemons named in Enochian lore. In most cases very little is known about them except for who their angelic adversary is. These demons are: Aax, Adi, Agb, And, Aor, Apa, Apm, Ash, Asi, Ast, Ato, Ava, Cab, Cac, Cam, Cms, Cop, Csc, Cus, Eac, Erg, Ern, Exr, Hbr, Hru, Hua, Idalam, Mgm, Miz, Mma, Moc, Mop, Mto, Oap, Odo, Oec, Oia, Ona, Onh, Onp, Pdi, Pfm, Pia, Piz, Rad, Rpa, Rrb, Rrl, Rsi, Rxp, Xai, Xcz, Xdz, Xii, Xom, Xoy, and Xpa.