Asmodeus, also known as Ashmedai, is a prominent demon in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, originating as the Zoroastrian wrath demon aēšmō.daēva in the ancient Avesta texts and evolving into a complex figure associated with lust, violence, and kingship over infernal realms.[1]In the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, composed around the 3rd or 2nd century BCE, Asmodeus serves as the primary antagonist, infatuated with the virtuous Sarah and slaying her seven successive husbands on their wedding nights out of jealous rage, only to be exorcised and banished to Upper Egypt by the archangel Raphael through the ritual burning of a fish's heart and liver.