As we were wandering the streets of London, slowly making our way to the Imperial War Museum, we looked up and discovered this statue of Pazuzu lurking atop this building.
Pazuzu is an Assyro-Babylonian god, known for bringing famine during dry seasons, and locusts during rainy seasons. Although Pazuzu is, himself, an evil spirit, he drives away other evil spirits, thus protecting humans against plagues and misfortunes.
Pazuzu was immortalised as the demon who possessed Linda Blair's character in the horror movie "the Exorcist" and in either the original or one of the sequels there is a back lit shot of a statue that look's exactly the same as this. Creepy!
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