Note 299.1 — Chapter XIII · Babylonian, Anatolian, and Aegean Ritual.

The elaboration of exorcism must have led to a minuter articulation of the demon-world; the exorciser is most anxious to know and discover all about his unseen foes: he gives them a name, a sex if possible, and a number: he says of the powerful storm-demons Utuk “they are seven, they are seven, they are neither male nor female, they take no wife and beget no children;”299.1 for knowledge of the name or nature of the personality gives magic power.