Gog and Magog, in the book of Ezekiel, a king and his nation, probably representing the northern peoples who were to invade western Asia. In British legend, Gog and Magog were two giants. As told by Caxton, the story runs that the Emperor Diocletian had thirty-three daughters. These women all murdered their husbands, and, as punishment, were cast adrift in a ship. They finally reached Britain and here became the mothers of a race of giants, the fathers of whom were demons. Brut, the first king of the Britons, slew most of these giants, but Gog and Magog were brought in chains to Brut's palace on the site of Guildhall, London. The effigies of these giants were long preserved in Guildhall. It is known that, as early as 1415, they were brought forth and used in preparing the city to welcome Henry V. They were destroyed in the great fire of 1666. The statues in Guildhall at the present time were erected in 1708. See BRUT.