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unusual facts about Collin de Plancy



Asmodeus

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads (one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.


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Victor Collin de Plancy

Collin de Plancy was born on November 22, 1853 in Plancy, a small town near Troyes in the Champagne region of eastern France, the son of Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, a Jesuit priest and prolific writer on the occult whose name is still much more familiar in France than that of his son.