Dagiel is an angelic name recorded in Western grimoire tradition and modern encyclopedic summaries of Jewish angelology.
The Friday hierarchy in the Heptameron
In Pseudo-Peter of Abano’s Heptameron (“Conjuration of Friday”), Dagiel is named as a great and powerful prince. The ritual formula invokes the angels of the third host serving before Dagiel under the planetary sphere of Venus, while Anael is addressed as the principal chief ruler of Friday. Joseph H. Peterson’s critical edition notes parallel wording in Francis Barrett’s later work The Magus (1801) in the Friday conjuration.
Encyclopedic reports of fish governance
In Ludwig Blau and Kaufmann Kohler’s Jewish Encyclopedia article “Angelology” (under “Angels of Nature”), Dagiel is reported as an angel set over fish, referencing Abraham of Granada’s Berit Menuhah (p. 37). Gustav Davidson’s 1967 A Dictionary of Angels (pp. 93–94) similarly repeats this office, describing Dagiel as a ruler over fish and an angel invoked in Friday planetary operations. The fish office is reported here through these later reference accounts.
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