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Valac
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
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] Valac as depicted in the Dictionnaire
The Officium Spirituum similarly attributes Doolas with the Infernal
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
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 Evil as a major antagonist.
The Conjuring 2, The Nun, and The Nun II 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, it has not been confirmed if Valak is the Crooked Man.The Nun revealed that it took
the form of a nun to hide amongst the Sisters. In The Nun and The Nun II, its main weakness is
the Blood of Christ. Its ability to block 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.
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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
1. Peterson 2001, p. 35.
2. Rudd 2007, p. 164.
3. Weyer 1563, par. 50.
4. Porter 2011, pp. 14–15.
5. Porter 2015, p. 198.
6. Kieckhefer 1997, pp. 166, 292. Valak as depicted in The Conjuring
7. Rudd 2007, p. 34. Universe

8. 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
Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs
ancêtres médiévaux" (http://medievales.revues.org/1019). Médiévales. Langues, Textes,
Histoire. Médiévales (in French). Revues.org (44): 117–140. doi:10.4000/medievales.1019 (htt
ps://doi.org/10.4000%2Fmedievales.1019).
Kieckhefer, Richard (1998). Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
(https://books.google.com/books?id=pXvRNI1S55EC). 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; (https://boo
ks.google.com/books?id=wfIrE3QtmFEC). Maine: Weiser Books (published 2001). ISBN 1-
57863-220-X.
Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits (https://books.goog
le.com/books?id=wN9MXwAACAAJ). 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 (https://books.google.com/bo
oks?id=RfDFoAEACAAJ) (first ed.). Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0-7387-4334-9.
Rudd, Thomas (2010). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd (http
s://books.google.com/books?id=Ws6CRAAACAAJ). Golden Hoard Press (published 2007).
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Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber

officiorum spirituum) (http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/weyer.htm). Twilit Grotto:
Esoteric Archives (published 2000).

External links
Religion portal

Valac's entry in the Lesser Key of Solomon (http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.ht

m#valac), hosted at Twilit Grotto
Valac's entry in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/w
eyer.htm#par50), hosted at Twilit Grotto

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