Valac
Valak is a
Variations
The Lesser Key, the Munich Manual, Rudd, and Weyer further agree in ranking Valac as a president and attributing him with the power to locate, summon, and control Oten, 292}}[1][2][3] The Officium Spirituum similarly attributes Doolas with the power to give the summoner command of serpents as well as "household spirits," but it ranks Coolor and Doolas as princes instead of presidents.[4][5]
Que is listed 62nd in the Lesser Key (even by Rudd) and the 50th by Weyer, with either version claiming he leads 30 legions of demons (though some manuscripts say 38).[1][2][3] The Munich Manual describes Volach as controlling 27 legions of spirits.[6][7][8] The Officium Spirituum (depending on the manuscript) ranks Coolor as either 21st (with no note of how many spirits he commands)[10] or (in the copy found in the Folger Shakespeare Library) 22nd and commanding 13 legions of spirits.[5] All extant and complete versions of the Officium Spirituum list Doolas as 25th demon, commanding 20 legions of spirits.[11][5]
Rudd's version uniquely has Valac opposed by the
A manuscript titled Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum lists him as Volach.[13]
In popular culture
- The 1998 film Vampires features a character named "Valek" as the first vampire.
- Volac appears in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic book series. In issue #7, a young Edward Spellman, father of Sabrina Spellman, summons the demon at the request of Alphonse Louis Constant.
- Ualac appears in the Hellboy: Box Full of Evilas a major antagonist.
- Lorraine's visions, makes it the most dangerous entity in The Conjuring Universe.
- Valac appears as the fourth boss in the game video Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. He is depicted as a two headed dragon that can fuse to make an even bigger dragon. He appears again in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
- Valak appears also in the first season of Shadowhunters where it is summoned to retrieve Clary's memories back from it.
- The manga series Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun has a main character named Clara Valac, a hyperactive demon girl who can make copies of anything she sees.
References
- ^ a b c d Peterson 2001, p. 35.
- ^ a b c Rudd 2007, p. 164.
- ^ a b c d Weyer 1563, par. 50.
- ^ a b c Porter 2011, pp. 14–15.
- ^ a b c d e Porter 2015, p. 198.
- ^ a b c Kieckhefer 1997, pp. 166, 292.
- ^ a b Rudd 2007, p. 34.
- ^ a b Weyer 1563, Introduction by Peterson.
- ^ Rudd.
- ^ Porter 2011, p. 14.
- ^ Porter 2011, p. 15.
- ^ Rudd 2007, pp. 376.
- ^ Boudet 2003, par. 25.
Bibliography
- Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux". Médiévales. Langues, Textes, Histoire. Médiévales (in French) (44). .
- Kieckhefer, Richard (1998). Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. University Park, Pennsylvania: ISBN 0-271-01750-3.
- Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (May 2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: ISBN 1-57863-220-X.
- Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by ISBN 978-0933429253.
- Porter, John; Weston, John (2015). ISBN 978-0-7387-4334-9.
- ISBN 978-0738723556.
- Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000).
External links
- Valac's entry in the Lesser Key of Solomon, hosted at Twilit Grotto
- Valac's entry in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, hosted at Twilit Grotto