A small garden of demons for {{name}}.
Fourteen named fiends drift through the field. The names are real — they were exorcised out of a small group of servants at Denham, Buckinghamshire, in 1585, recorded with full ceremony by Samuel Harsnett in 1603, and re-purposed by King Lear's Mad Tom three years later. Click an imp to make it speak; hold to banish it permanently. Type a name below to summon another. Leave the tab open and let them harp at each other; that is the recommended mode.
The lines are nonsense; the names are not. Harsnett's eight (Flibbertigibbet, Hoberdidance, Smulkin, Frateretto, Modo, Mahu, Obidicut, Hilcho) appear by name in King Lear III.iv and IV.i; the rest (Puff, Killiko, Wilkin, Hellecat, Bonjour, Lustie Jenkin) come from the *Declaration* itself.