nargals

Updated: May 23, 2025

Nagual is the name by which the sorcerers of Mexico, Indians and aborigines of America, are still designated. Like the Assyrian and Chaldean Nargals, chiefs of the Magi, the Mexican Nagual unites in his person the functions of priest and of sorcerer, being served in the latter capacity by a demon in the shape of some animal, generally a snake or a crocodile.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan