Demoness

But the demoness was a creature as spectacular as she chose to be, capable of impressing even a king. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1991)

That makes them easy pickings for the succubus a kind of demoness who also shows up on the doorstep, supposedly seeking shelter from the storm that whipped up out of nowhere. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Now I owed the demoness a future favor in exchange for her helping me get my freedom. ❋ Jill Myles (2011)

Rydstrom, too, had gone long without finding his destined demoness. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

When you meet your demoness and she shakes to hell your unflappable demeanor. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

Sarah Monette and the demoness that possesses her. ❋ Ellen_datlow (2008)

Then why have you never taken a demoness from the camps? ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

Though he might have imagined his fated one would be a match for him—a weary and hardened demoness used to deprivation—she was his opposite in so many ways. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

Kallen loved females, enjoyed a new demoness nightly. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

And if she could be—if the unworthy life of such a demoness could be successfully terminated—then perhaps Felicity would finally be able to fulfill her own destiny. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

Seen through male eyes as a traitor, temptress, and demoness, Lilith is hailed by contemporary women as a feminist visionary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A couple of seasons ago on 'Supernatural', Nicki Aycox played the demoness Meg for several episodes. ❋ Toby O'B (2009)

One might grow more curious still when Beowulf proceeds to shag aforesaid super-sexy babe-demoness rather than dispatching her. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Silverberg uses this story of Gilgamesh driving the demoness out of the tree: in the novel, the high priestess summons Gilgamesh to exorcise three demons from a sacred tree. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In gathering his sources of inspiration for the novel, then, Silverberg has made use of both the goddess Inanna and the lilītu demoness, which likely gave rise, one way or another, to the Lilith mentioned in Isaiah and the subsequent folkloric traditions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Another, related demoness was Lamashtu, who threatened new-born babies and “had a disagreeable taste for human flesh and blood.” ❋ Unknown (2009)