bafomet

Updated: May 21, 2025

Mahomet appears as 'Bafomet, influenced perhaps by 'bafa, a lie, in Provencal. In the same way adversaries of Wiclif traced in his name an abridgement of 'wicked- belief. Metternich was 'Mitternacht, or Midnight, for the political reformers of Germany in the last generation.

Richard Chenevix Trench - On the Study of Words