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Demetrus

Demetius

Merlin’s maternal grandfather in Thomas Heywood’s The Life of Merlin.

Demetius’s daughter was impregnated by an incubus, Merlin’s father. Heywood has created a personal name – whether deliberately or accidentall – out of Demetia, the country which Merlin’s grandfather was said to rule.


Source
The Life of Merlin | Thomas Heywood, 1641