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>ANDROMALIUS
>Andromalius is a great and mighty Earl who comes in the form of a man holding a great serpent in his hand. His office is to bring back thieves and the goods that they stole, to discover all wickedness and underhand dealings, to punish thieves and other wicked people, and to reveal the locations of hidden treasures
>With functions that largely orbit around the themes of justice and punishment for wrongdoing, it seems likely that the name Andromalius derives from the word Andro, which has Greek origins referring to "man", and the Latin malus, which denotes "evil", "calamity", "hurt", and "harm", but also "punishment", which clearly aligns with his ability to bring thieves to justice and mete out punitive retribution to them. While this clarifies his name with a good degree of certainty, alternative etymologies are also apparent in the name of the god Adrammelech. As already discussed in the analysis of the spirit Andrealphus, this name derives from the roots אדר (adar), "magnificent", and מלאך (malek), "king", but made its way into the tomes of medieval and Renaissance magic in a mutated form that bears the marks of polylinguistic conjunction. Another example of this name's mutation was recounted in a letter from a former monk named William Stapleton to Cardinal Wolsey in sixteenth-century England, in which he admitted appealing to a spirit named Andrew Malchus to query why a previous working designed to conjure the spirit Oberion had failed. While seeming to be a fairly ordinary human name that happens to sounds a bit like Andromalius, connections with this spirit come from more than just its phonic concurrences, with the name Andrew coming from the Greek ἀνδρός (andros), denoting masculinity, while Malchus comes from the Aramaic מלאך, "melek", meaning "king", "kingdom", or "counselor"
