As often happened, Jake had gone to bed tired and confused but on waking, his ideas were ordered and clear. It occurred again on this occasion, with the conundrum of the bishop’s ring suddenly resolved. Knowing that every religion, however primitive, referred to demons, he put together the elements that had nagged at the back of his mind the previous evening. The missing strand had been Agathos Daimon the ancient Greek demon of vineyards and wheat fields. Different populations, whether they were Sumerian, Egyptian, Israelite, Greek or Roman all had their malignant deities and the orb had revealed to him, in its way, that although the name changed, the diabolical entity was always the same. Agathos Daimon and Bonus Malus, therefore were one. Developing his theory, he presumed that the demon
