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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 ■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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Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryClown SenpaisClown Squad10810
Andrew HartBHSU RebirthMusic to Help You Stop Smoking11710
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Matt SchiavoneNortheast by NorthwesternNotre Dame119-5
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?12210
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioWashU12710
Will SandersNotre DameNortheast by Northwestern14910

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%33%131.67
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