Valac

Valak as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal

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 Officiorum 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][3][9]

  1. ^ a b Peterson 2001, p. 35.
  2. ^ Rudd 2010, p. 164.
  3. ^ a b Weyer 1563, par. 50.
  4. ^ a b Porter 2011, pp. 14–15.
  5. ^ a b Porter 2015, p. 198.
  6. ^ a b Kieckhefer 1997, pp. 166, 292.
  7. ^ Rudd 2010, p. 34.
  8. ^ Weyer 1563, Introduction by Peterson.
  9. ^ Rudd 2010.