Valac
"Valu" redirects here. For the 2008 film, see Valu (film).
This article is about the goetic demon. For the album by Erik Friedlander, see Volac: Book of Angels Volume 8. For the computer-language compiler, see Vala (programming language).
Valac is a demon described in the goetic grimoires the Lesser Key of Solomon (in some versions as Ualac or Valak[1] and in Thomas Rudd's variant as Valu),[2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as Volac),[3] the Liber Officium Spirituum (as Coolor or Doolas),[4][5] and in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Volach)[6][7][8] as an angelically winged boy riding a two-headed dragon, attributed with the power of finding treasures.[6][1][4][5][2][3]
In Popular Culture
- The 2016 horror film, The Conjuring 2, has Valak as the main antagonist, taking on the form of a demonic nun. The character, however bears no resemblance with mythology besides the name and title of "Marquis of Snakes".
Bibliography
- Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux". Médiévales (in French) (44). Revues.org.
- Kieckhefer, Richard (1997). Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-271-01750-3.
- Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: Weiser Books. ISBN 1-57863-220-X.
- Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D., ed. A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by Hockley, Frederick. Teitan Press. ISBN 0933429258.
- Porter, John; Weston, John (2015). Harms, Daniel; Clark, James R.; Peterson, Joseph H., eds. The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook for Elizabethan Magic (first ed.). Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0-7387-4334-9.
- Rudd, Thomas (2007). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David, eds. The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press. ISBN 073872355X.
- Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H., ed. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000).
References
- 1 2 Peterson 2001, pp. 33-36.
- 1 2 Rudd 2007, pp. 160-169.
- 1 2 Weyer 1563, par. 40-49.
- 1 2 Porter 2011, pp. 10-19.
- 1 2 Porter 2015, pp. 191-207.
- 1 2 Kieckhefer 1997, pp. 165-167, 291-293.
- ↑ Rudd 2007, p. 34.
- ↑ Weyer 1563, Introduction by Peterson.
See also
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
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