SOURCES:
"Owls Hoot in the Daytime" by Manly Wade Wellman (1980)

DESCRIPTION: “... There he was, dark and a standing two-legged like a man, but he was taller than I was, by the height of that round head with the red eyes. And no hair to his black hide, it was as slick as a snake. Long arms and pitchfork hands sort of pawed out toward me, the way a praying mantis does. The head cocked itself. I saw that it had something in it besides eyes, it had a mouth, open and as wide as a gravy boat, wet and black, like a mess of hot tar ... Those legs straddled. Their knees bent backwards like a frog's. The feet slapped flat and wide on the floor of the cave, amongst more jewels everywhere ... His fingers were lumpy-jointed and they had sharp claws, like on the feet of a great big hawk ... On the other side of the door he made a noise. It was a whiny buzz, what you'd expect from a bee as big as a dog ...” ("Owls Hoot in the Daytime" by Manly Wade Wellman)

HISTORY: Molech is the most typical demon-like creature Wellman used in the Silver John stories.

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