IBN (ABU) HADERASH
--The devil who divested Princess Ateh of her sex. He resided in hell, at the place where the orbit of the moon crosses that of the sun. A poet, he wrote the following lines about himself:
When I near their women, Abyssinians look aghast,
As do Greeks, Turks, and Slavs, from first to last. . . .
The poems of Ibn Haderash were compiled by a man named Al-Mazrubani, who collected the verse of demons and in the 12th century assembled a book of demon poetry (compare the Arabic collection of Abul-Ala Al-Maarri, which records this fact).
Ibn Haderash rode a long-striding horse, and the trot of its hoofs can still be heard, one in each day.