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[[File:38 Halphas.png|300px|thumb|Halphas as depicted in the [[Occult Tarot]]]] | |||
'''Halphas''' (listed in [[Thomas Rudd]]'s edition as '''Malthas''' and in the [[Aleister Crowley|Crowley]]/[[Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers|Mathers]] edition as '''Halphas''', '''Malthus''', or '''Malphas''') is the thirty-eighth [[demon]] in the ''[[Ars Goetia]]'' in the [[Lesser Key of Solomon]] (forty-third in [[Johann Weyer]]'s ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]'', ranked as an earl, and commands 26 legions of spirits. | |||
==General appearance== | ==General appearance== | ||
Most manuscripts describe Halphas as a hoarse-voiced stock dove (though Weyer and [[ | Most manuscripts describe Halphas as a hoarse-voiced stock dove (though Weyer and [[Collin de Plancy]]'s ''[[Dictionnaire Infernal]]'' describe him as a stork). | ||
==Abilities== | ==Abilities== | ||
Halphas supplies weapons and ammunition for towers (Weyer and de Plancy have "towns" or "villes" instead), sends men to war. | Halphas supplies weapons and ammunition for towers (Weyer and de Plancy have "towns" or "villes" instead), sends men to war. | ||
Halphas is opposed by the [[Kabbalistic angel]] [[Haamiah]]. | |||
This spirit is a servant demon to those born September 21 - 25. | |||
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