A hairy man intercepts messengers sent to consult this being and predicts the king’s death from injuries sustained by falling through a lattice. Louis Le Breton depicted this being with skull-and-crossbones on two of his wings in the Dictionnaire Infernal. This being’s popular name is either a corruption of a title referring to the “heavenly dwelling," or an indication of a function likened to that of Myiagros or Zeus Apomyios. This being, who was worshiped at (*) Ekron, is branded with a magic ring by his subordinate Ornias in the Testament of Solomon’s telling of the construction of the First Temple. Jesus denies using the power of this demonic being, whose name is given to a staked pig’s head that speaks to the hallucinating boy Simon in a grim satire of The Coral Island. For 10 points, name this Canaanite deity-turned-demon whose translated name titles that novel by William Golding. ■END■
ANSWER: Baalzebub [or Beelzebub; or Baalzebul; or the Lord of the Flies; prompt on Baal; prompt on Satan or the devil] (The first sentence refers to an incident in Second Kings, Chapter 1.)
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