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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, 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]
Variations[edit]
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
serpents.[6][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 Shemhamphorasch angel Iahhel.[12]
A manuscript titled Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum lists him as Volach.[13]
In popular culture[edit]
Valak, as featured in The Nun (2018), played by Bonnie

Aarons
 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 story "Box Full of Evil" as a major antagonist.
 The 2016 horror film The Conjuring 2 has "Valak" as the main antagonist,
taking on the form of a demonic nun and The Crooked Man from the rhyme
"There Was a Crooked Man". However, the character bears no resemblance
with myth besides the name. In the spin-off film, The Nun (2018), the demon
is associated with snakes, seeking human possession to escape its
confinement within the Cartha monastery of Romania. The Nun would later
have a cameo in the 2017 film Annabelle: Creation, and appear in The Nun
II released on September 8, 2023.
 Valac appears as the fourth boss in the game Bloodstained: Curse of the
Moon for the Nintendo Switch and PC. 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 2017 manga 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[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Peterson 2001, p. 35.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b c Rudd 2007, p. 164.
3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Weyer 1563, par. 50.
4. ^ Jump up to:a b c Porter 2011, pp. 14–15.
5. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Porter 2015, p. 198.
6. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Kieckhefer 1997, pp. 166, 292.
7. ^ Jump up to:a b Rudd 2007, p. 34.
8. ^ Jump up to:a b Weyer 1563, Introduction by Peterson.
9. ^ Rudd.
10. ^ Porter 2011, p. 14.
11. ^ Porter 2011, p. 15.
12. ^ Rudd 2007, pp. 376.
13. ^ Boudet 2003, par. 25.
Bibliography[edit]
 Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la
Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux". Médiévales. Langues, Textes,
Histoire. Médiévales (in French). Revues.org (44): 117–
140. doi:10.4000/medievales.1019.
 Kieckhefer, Richard (1998). Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the
Fifteenth Century. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State
University Press (published 1997). p. 161. 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: Weiser Books (published 2001). 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 978-0933429253.
 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 (2010). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia
of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press (published 2007). ISBN 978-0738723556.
 Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia
Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives

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