Halphas
{{Short description|Demon}}
{{distinguish|Malphas}}
In demonology, Halphas (listed in Skinner & Rankine's edition as Malthas,{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}} and in the Crowley/Mathers edition as Halphas, Malthus, or Malphas){{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}} is the thirty-eighth demon in the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of Solomon{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}} (forty-third in Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum),{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=par. 42}} ranked as an earl.
Most manuscripts describe Halphas as a hoarse-voiced stock dove{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}} (though Weyer and Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal describe him as a stork),{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=par. 42}}{{sfn|de Plancy|1853|pages=252}} who supplies weapons and ammunition{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}}{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=par. 42}}{{sfn|de Plancy|1853|pages=252}} for towers{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}} (Weyer and de Plancy have "towns" or "villes" instead),{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=par. 42}}{{sfn|de Plancy|1853|pages=252}} sends men to war, and commands 26 legions of spirits.{{sfn|Peterson|2001|page=24}}{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | p=140}}{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=par. 42}}{{sfn|de Plancy|1853|pages=252}}
According to Skinner & Rankine, Halphas is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Haamiah.{{sfn | Skinner | Rankine | 2010 | pp=366–376}}
See also
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References
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Sources
- {{cite book
|editor-last=Peterson |editor-first=Joseph H.
|title=Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil; |date=May 2001
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfIrE3QtmFEC
|language=English
|location=Maine |publisher=Weiser Books |publication-date=2001
|isbn=1-57863-220-X
}}
- {{cite book
|last=de Plancy |first=Jacques Collin |author-link=Jacques Collin de Plancy
|title=Dictionnaire infernal |year=1853 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ng8JAAAAQAAJ
|language=French
|location=Paris |publisher=Sagnier et Bray |publication-date=1853
}}
- {{cite book | last=Skinner | first=Stephen | last2=Rankine | first2=David | title=The Goetia of Dr Rudd : the angels & demons of Liber malorum spirituum seu Goetia Lemegeton clavicula Salomonis : with a study of the techniques of evocation in the context of the angel magic tradition of the seventeenth century | publisher=Golden Hoard, distributed by Llewellyn Worldwide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ws6CRAAACAAJ| publication-place=Singapore | date=2010 | isbn=978-0-9547639-2-3 | oclc=665072905}}
- {{cite book
|year=1563
|last=Weyer |first=Johann |author-link=Johann Weyer
|editor-last=Peterson |editor-first=Joseph H.
|title=Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum) |url=http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/weyer.htm
|language=English
|publisher=Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives |publication-date=2000
}}
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