Demon Facts

Bushyasta

Bushyasta

AKA Bushasp, Bušyasta, Bušiiasta

Bushyasta

Titles:

The Long-handed, The Slothful

Culture:

Zoroastrian

Appearance:

As her epithet suggests, Bushyasta is possesses a lanky, slender figure. She is further described as having a gaunt, yellow-green physiognomy, producing images of one who is emaciated, sickly and inert.

Purpose/Role:

  • The pure essence of sloth, idleness and laziness
  • Causes the virtuous to procrastinate, striving to prevent them from carrying out productive tasks and improving themselves
  • Induces lethargy, somnolence and inertia in the devout, causing them to forget and ignore their duties of prayer
  • Weakens and lulls heroes to sleep so as to render them impotent against the other forces of evil