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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mahu

The fiend-prince that urges to theft.

“Five flends have been in poor Tom at once: of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing.” —Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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