In demonologyBarbas is a Great President of Hell and governs thirty-six legions of demons. He answers truly on hidden or secret things, causes and heals diseases, teaches mechanical arts, and changes men into other shapes.
He is depicted as a great lion that under the conjurer's request changes shape into a man.
The name Barbas seems to come from Latin 'barba', beard, hellebore (a plant used in witchcraft, especially to invoke demons), and also a male name.
Barbas privately hoped to follow the example of Fred Graham, a lawyer/correspondent for CBS News at the time, covering the great Supreme Court confrontations of the Richard Nixon era.
Barbas received 53 percent of the vote, winning a six-year term and a salary of $130,000, a drastic pay cut, he said.
Barbas, a father of three with an adopted daughter, would hold the adoptive children for photos while he signed their papers.