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As a Lesser Key demon, Valak leads 38 legions of demons, though the number is also put at 30 and 27 legions of spirits, depending on the manuscript. Don’t let the titles fool you, every demon is called a duke, a king, or a prince. Valak’s ranking is mainly listed as a “president,” but some manuscripts ranked him as a prince. This informed Reginald Scott’s influential 1584 grimoire, The Discoverie of Witchcraft. A 1577 grimoire called the Book of Oberon lists a demon named Coolor, which is believed to be another name for Valak.
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The spellings of the demon’s moniker range from Ualac to Valu, and Doolas to Volach in Munich Manual of Demonic Magic. Valak has several names and titles, depending on the manuscripts and the translation. The 72 Shemhamphorasch angelic names and seals came from the 1583 manuscript Le Livre des Esperitz (“The Office of Spirits”) by Blaise de Vigenère, and a now-lost work by Johannes Trithemius. That book listed 69 demons along with the proscribed rituals to conjure them. The text was an appendix in the 1577 grimoire De praestigiis daemonum (“On the Tricks of Demons”), by Johann Weyer, who himself was a Dutch physician, renowned occultist, and demonologist. Valak first appeared in written form in Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (The False Monarchy of Demons”). The which he will bring unto the Exorciser without any Force or Strength being by him employed. His Office is to give True Answers of Hidden Treasures, and to tell where Serpents may be seen. “He is a President Mighty and Great, and appeareth like a Child with Angel’s Wings, riding on a Two-headed Dragon. “The Sixty-second Spirit is Volac, or Valak, or Valu,” reads The Lesser Key of Solomon. According to legend, the demons featured in the grimoire were the ones summoned by the King Solomon character in the Bible. Crowley added invocations, along with essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration. They were published by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley as The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King in the 20th century.
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers translated the works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a late 18th-century magical order. The majority of what we know about Valak comes from the mid-17th century Goetic grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, a compilation of centuries’ worth of texts.
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Valak also retroactively gets the rap for the 1284 Pied Piper missing children incident in the German village of Hamelin. But this Grand President of Hell is more cherub than dragon in the demonic hierarchy.Īs the 62nd spirit in a 72-demon roster, Valak is no delinquent, although he’s been blamed for the two 1212 Children’s Crusades to the Holy Land, which resulted in thousands of teenagers from Germany and France being sold into slavery. The Conjuring 2 depicts the demon Valak as some horrific rendition of Cheech and Chong’s Sister Mary Elephant.