The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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Hades In Greek mythology, the god who rules the
underworld of the dead. Hades is the son of the Titans
Cronus and Rhea. With one of his brothers, Zeus, he
plots to overthrow their father Cronus, the god of time.
Hades; Zeus, god of Olympus; and another brother, Poseidon,
god of the sea, drew lots to divide up the world,
and Hades fared the worst, getting the underworld.
Hades seeks to increase the population of his kingdom
and prevent anyone from leaving. The gates of his abode,
also called Hades, are guarded by the three-headed dog
CERBERUS. Hades’ wife is Persephone, whom he abducted
to the underworld.
Hades also is the god of wealth, because of the precious
metals mined from the earth; he is also called Pluto
(the rich one or the hidden one).
He has a helmet that makes him invisible.
See HELL.
Hagenti (Haagenti) FALLEN ANGEL and 48th of the 72
SPIRITS OF SOLOMON. Hagenti is a president who rules 33
LEGIONs of DEMONs. He appears in the shape of a bull with
griffin wings but will change into human form when
commanded by a magician. He turns wine into water,
transmutes all metals into gold, and imparts wisdom.
Haizmann, Christopher (Christoph) Joseph (17th
century) Minor Bavarian painter who announced in
1677 that he had signed a PACT with the DEVIL and was
tormented by DEMONs for the rest of his life.
Christopher Haizmann was seized with an “unnatural
convulsion” on August 29, 1677. He went to the police
and asked for protection, claiming that nine years earlier,
he had sold his soul to SATAN. The police granted his
request.
Haizmann wrote and illustrated the story of his infernal
pact. He stated that the Devil one day had appeared
to him as a burgher with a large black dog and asked him
why he was distressed and sad. “He would help me out of
my distress if I were willing to subscribe myself in ink to
him to be his son; he would assist and help me in every
possible way,” Haizmann wrote.
The painter agreed to a nine-year contract. A pact
was drawn up and signed in Haizmann’s BLOOD. Over
the ensuing years, the Devil appeared to him many
times in various grotesque shapes, including that of a
dragon with breasts and talons. Satan also sent him visions
of HELL, which Haizmann described as “filled with
burning flames and terrible stench. In it there was a
large cauldron from which came heart-rending moans
and groans of human beings; on its edge sat a hellish
devil who did nothing but pour flaming resin, sulphur
and pitch over them.”
When the end of his contract approached, Haizmann
grew anxious about his own fate. Sent by the local police
to a holy shrine at Mariazell, Haizmann underwent
several days of EXORCISM, during which the Virgin Mary
recovered the pact from the Devil. Less than a year later,
Haizmann, complaining of continuing torment by the
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