Asmodeus (Asmode`us) , a mischievous demon or goblin of the Jewish demonology, who gloats on the vices and follies of mankind, and figures in Le Sage's “Le Diable Boiteux,” or the “Devil on Two Sticks,” as lifting off the roofs of the houses of Madrid and exposing their inmost interiors and the secret doings of the inhabitants.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Askew, Antony * Asmonæ`ans