ABSTRACT
Maybe St Sisinnius (™ÈÛ›ÓÓÈÔ˜) of Antioch is an intruder here, because it does not seem that he was actually a warrior even though he was portrayed as one.1 Lives of him are known in both Ethiopian and Byzantine tradition, in which he is presented as the protector of new-born babies against the female demon who killed them. In the Ethiopian tradition, which recounts that he was born in Antioch, it was his own sister, possessed by a demon, who killed the babies.2 On becoming a Christian, Sisinnius murdered her. In the Byzantine account he is said to have been a member of a Constantinopolitan family who intervened to save his sister Melitene’s children from a female demon called Gyllou.3
