I was inspired by someone to, perhaps, write a novel based in Christian theology, but with a more modern action theme. So I thought I would write about someone fighting the influence of Evil in a dystopian city, Evil in this case being one or more dem*ns manipulating the will of humans. I have been looking for a day or two, but I am having a hard time finding truly canonical mentions of specific dem*ns in scripture, apart from Old Lou himself. What passages mention one or more dem*ns by name, perhaps also describing their nefarious influences?
The Bible doesn't really give us that.
Not even the devil has a "name" to speak of. The term "lucifer" is a Latin translation of the Hebrew word referring to the planet Venus, the Hebrew word means "shining" and is rendered into Latin as lucifer or "light-bearing" or "light-bringing" similar to the Greek translation of the same, eosphoros ("dawn-bearer" and phosphoros (light-bearer, the passage in Isaiah isn't about the devil, but a human king of Babylon).
Words like "devil" and "satan" are actually titles or designations. "Satan" comes from Hebrew, ha-shaytan, which is a title meaning "the accuser" or "the adversary". In Greek we see the word diabolos used, meaning "adversary", which eventually becomes "devil" through linguistic development.
These are terms of designation for this thing, this creature, and this creature's entourage or cohorts which is adversarial, antipathic toward God and God's purposes (and therefore, an enemy or adversary of God's People). This thing, and his cohorts, are likely angels who rebelled or fell in some way. When, where, how, we don't know.
Another word we use to refer, especially to this adversary's cohorts, is from the Greek word daimon. This word, as used by ancient Greeks, was a generic term for any divine or semi-divine or spiritual entity. For example sometimes the gods of Mt. Olympus were called "daimon", nymphs and other woodland spirits and the like could also be called "daimon". It refered to any supernatural or divine or semidivine thing in Greek mythology and folklore. Jews, after the Greek conquest of Judea, eventually borrowed this word and gave it a distinctly negative meaning: a daimon referred to an evil spirit, or malevolent entity, and identified pagan gods as being malevolent entities masquerading as gods. That's how the devil gets the names "Beelzabub" and "Belial" in the New Testament. Both of these are derived from ancient Canaanite gods, from "ba'al" of which there were a number of pagan gods with this name. In Judaism "daimon" as a malevolent spirit or entity, combined with the idea that certain angels had fallen from grace and were actively working against God, is why the devil and his cohorts are called "demons", or the devil's cohorts are called "demons" and the devil himself is spoken of as the chief of the demons. But the demons themselves are also called "devils" collectively.
So there are epithets--terms used to describe them or call them what they are--they are adversaries, they are liars, they are false, and they have no power over us because in Christ we have salvation and victory from God over and against the powers of this fallen world. But they aren't "named" so to speak.
Though both Jewish folklore/legends, and in some medieval Christian traditions some demons get names.
I'd say this in fact: They don't even deserve names. They aren't worthy of having a name. They are devils, they are liars. Defeated and damned. Their rage, Martin Luther wrote, we can endure for "lo!" the devil's doom is sure, one little word shall defeat him. In Christ is all victory, both now and forever.
-CryptoLutheran
