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Agares
Agreas
A comely old man riding a crocodile, carrying a goshawk on his fist.
Teaches all languages, brings back runaways, casts down dignities and causes earthquakes.
He is under the Power of the East. Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577) describes him in nearly identical words — one of the spirits whose image passed unchanged through every manuscript.
Before his fall Agares belonged to the angelic order of Virtues; the Book of the Office of Spirits places him under Oriens, mounted on a cockatrice rather than a crocodile. The Grand Grimoire lists him as a subordinate of Lucifuge Rofocale. Legend has him sealed in a brass vessel and sunk in a deep lake, or banished to "lower Egypt"; his name may derive from the Greek figure Argus.
Agares brings back runaways. Make an offering, and he will remember your name in every tongue at once.
Make an offering · AgaresIn the message with your offering, name the spirit and state your petition — the keeper will enter them in the ledger.