Zagam
Grand king and president of the infernal regions.
He appears under the form of a bull with the wings of a griffin. He changes water into wine, blood into oil, the fool into a wise man, lead into silver, and copper into gold. Thirty legions obey him.
Zahuris or Zahories: French people who had travelled in Spain frequently had curious tales to tell concerning the Zahuris; people who were so keen-sighted that they could see streams of water and veins of metal hidden in the earth, and could indicate the whereabouts of buried treasure and the bodies of murdered persons. Explanations have been offered on natural lines. It was said that these men knew where water was to be found by the vapours arising at such spots; and that they were able to trace mines of gold and silver and copper by the particular herbs growing in their neighbourhood. But to the Spaniard such explanations are unsatisfactory; they persist in believing that the Zahuris are gifted with supernatural faculties, that they are en rapport with the demons, and that, if they wished, they could, without any physical aid, read thoughts and discover secrets which were as a sealed book to the grosser senses of ordinary mortals. For the rest, the Zahuris have red eyes; and in order that one should become a Zahuri it is necessary that he should have been born on Good Friday.
Zanoni, by Bulwer Lytton: (See Fiction, Occult.)