There were other times and places, as well, in which the name Baal had surfaced: about three thousand years before Christ he was the “storm-god” of the Amorites; in the sixteenth century, having fallen from grace by the hand of Jehovah so long before, he preferred to cast his lot with the darker fates and was identified by demonologist Jean Wier as a demon prince with three heads: of a man, a toad, and a cat?