Now, the wisest, strongest, and most subtle fiend of the entire crew was one fiend called the "Devil."

a horrid, ruthless fiend is war, That smites at once the shepherd and his flock.

Its fiends are the stewards who rouse us from our perpetual torpor with offers of food and praises of shadowy banquets,"Nice mutton-chop, Sir? roast-turkey? plate of soup?"

His fiends, in particular, are wonderful creations.

"So liv'd on all happy the host of the kinsmen In game and in glee, until one night began, A fiend out of hell-pit, the framing of evil, And Grendel forsooth the grim guest was hight, The mighty mark-strider the holder of moorland, The fen and the fastness."[10] This monster, Grendel, came from the moors and devoured thirty of the thanes.