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>AMDUSCIAS
>Amduscias is a Duke who appears as a unicorn and is accompanied by the sound of trumpets and other musical instruments just after he appears. He grants excellent familiars and can cause trees to bend and incline to the will of the magician
>The alternative spelling of his name, Amdukias, given in the Lemegeton shows his name to be descriptive of his rank of Duke due to that word's Greek origin being δουκας (doukas). His ability to manipulate the movement of trees to the magician's will is suggestive of a wild, earthy nature that is verified by his appearance as a unicorn, which in legend is depicted as living in the deepest parts of the woods. As with the spirit Barbais, who is also associated with forests and musicians, a link is apparent between Amduscias and the legends of Orpheus, who was able to make trees dance to his music. Barbais and Amduscias also display an overlap of essence with guardian deities or spirits of the forest such as Silvanus, Centaurus, Humbaba, and the giant, black-clad, one-eyed guardian of the forest in the Mabinogion story The Lady of the Fountain. The lattermost of these is described as having power over “serpents, and dragons, and divers sorts of animals,” which was symbolized in his possession of an enormous club that he used to smite a nearby stag. In the legends surrounding the Black Giant and Humbaba, the forest has clear celestial connotations. This is directly stated in the case of Humbaba, due to it being described as the “abode of the gods”, but is expressed more subtly in the description of the Black Giant, whose “rulership over the animals” is suggestive of an influence over the forces of the Zodiac
>Due to his vast size and his heavy club, it is feasible that the Black Giant represents a Brythonic understanding of Orion, with the single eye in the center of his brow representing the single star that features in Orion's head in his constellation
