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Dale Flowers's avatar

Bacchus, bringer of headaches

So many souls he bakes

Sneak thief offering joy

That demon, O so coy

Tricked by his promises, fake.

Frank Nero's avatar

Even CS Lewis had a place for Bacchus at the end of he Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe:

“the Faun... began to talk of... Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.”

Herbert Nowell's avatar

And he again appears at the end of Prince Caspian as part of Aslan's parade of liberation from Telemirites.