The Zoureg is a snake, one foot in length, that lives in the Arabian desert. When it moves it goes through everything in its path like a hot knife through butter; rocks, trees, walls and human bodies are all equally powerless to stop it. Anyone who a zoureg goes through dies instantly. It can only be killed by decapitating it in its sleep.
It has proven difficult to locate de Plancy’s sources for this purported Arabian legend, considering that “zoureg” is an oddly transliterated word with multiple possible spellings in Arabic.
References
de Plancy, J. C. (1863) Dictionnaire Infernal. Henri Plon, Paris.
A Book of Creatures 
Me when I haven’t eaten in 10 hours
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You could say he,zigzags everywhere like hot butter.
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Oh, I remember this thing! I’m glad it’s an official creature now.
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Wait, can it fly (or float)? Otherwise how could it be fatal if it chopped off someone’s foot? (Maybe it’s venomous?…)
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It just goes through you and you die. Probably venomous.
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Why is this in a book about demonology?
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90% of the Dictionnaire Infernal is garbage and/or not actually demonology.
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Not to sound rude, but why?
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You don’t sound rude at all, and sorry if I did! 😦 To expand on that, the DI is a dictionary of religion, belief, superstition, and Biblical fanfiction. A lot is unsourced and/or probably made up, and a lot of it is about how Protestants are filthy heretics (de Plancy was Catholic).
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I guess you can say… z
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Illustration kinda reminds me of Zygarde.
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