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Encyclopedia > Zagan

In demonology, Zagan is a Great King and President of Hell, commanding over thirty-three legions of demons. He makes men witty; he can also turn wine into water, water into wine, and blood into wine (according to Pseudomonarchia Daemonum blood into oil, oil into blood, and a fool into a wise man). Other of his powers is that of turning metals into coins that are made with that metal (i.e., gold into a gold coin, copper into a copper coin, etc.). CoA of Żagań Żagań (French and German Sagan) is a town in western Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2004). ... Demonology is the systematic study of demons or beliefs about demons. ... This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. ... “Fiend” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... For other uses, see Blood (disambiguation). ... Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, first appears as an Appendix to Johann Weyers De praestigiis daemonum (1577). ... Synthetic motor oil being poured. ... This article is about metallic materials. ... This article is about monetary coins. ...


Zagan is depicted as a griffin-winged bull that turns into a man after a while. Other authors portray him as a bull-headed man with the wings of a griffin. For other uses, see Griffin (disambiguation). ... For general information about the genus, including other species of cattle, see Bos. ...


Alternative spelling: Zagam.


See also

Cover of the 1995 edition of the 1904 Goetia by S.L.M. Mathers and Aleister Crowley. ... The Ars Goetia (Greek, probably: The Art of Witchcraft), often simply called the Goetia, is the first section of the 17th century grimoire Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or The Lesser Key of Solomon. ...

External links

  • Translated paragraph of the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum on Zagan

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Zagan (165 words)
Zagan is a small, picturesque, town with a population of around 14,000 in the south west of Poland.
During the Second World War, the forest around Zagan (then located deep in Germany and named Sagan) was the location of the infamous Stalag Luft III, and the 'Great Escape' where 76 prisoners of war escaped by a man made tunnel from the German Luft Waffe prison camp.
Zagan was also the birthplace of the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler.
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