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Ok, here's some ideas I've had in the meantime:
Mago or Magi - A shortening of Magog or Gog, the nations which rise against the Lord according to the book of Revelations. I'm not religious, but when people metamorphose into grey skinned flesh eating beasts and such people would be inclined to say its the Apocalypse. The history of this story is that some time in the seventeenth century the world is gripped by this scourge, so I suppose people like the pilgrims and the devout Catholic Spaniards would presume it was the Apocalypse.
Molochs - Again Biblical, demon name, just stuck.
Ghouls? Too obvious, but maybe something derived from it?
Bael - Derived from Babael the Keeper of Graves?
Er, I'm out.
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