Beelzebub has, Boaistuau claims, been incarnated on earth in two places. First he ruled over the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, where he pretended to give oracles in exchange for the sacrifices of virgins. In Boaistuau’s own time, however, the Devil was even more shameless: he had revealed himself to the good people of Calicut (now Kozhikode, in southwest India), whom he had tricked into treating him like a god. For this intelligence, Boaistuau cites Ludovico di Varthema, a Bolognese merchant who had travelled to Calicut in 1505. Di Varthema had seen (and misinterpreted) some Hindu temples, and his travel account had been illustrated in a 1515 German edition with woodcuts by Jörg Breu the Elder (1475–1537). Breu’s chicken-footed depiction of the Hindu god (35r) was a clear source of inspiration for Boaistuau’s own illustration. The latter went further, however, adding the monstrous birth of a smaller demon emerging from between the Devil’s thighs.