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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 62
Also recorded as Volac, Valak, Valu, Ualac
An angel-winged child rides a dragon with two heads. Valac gives true answers about hidden treasure and the whereabouts of serpents, then brings the serpents to the caller without force being employed. [1]
Goetia 1904
Valac’s appearance joins a child’s body and angel’s wings with a two-headed dragon mount. The great president answers truly about hidden treasures, says where serpents can be seen and brings those creatures to the exorcist without force or strength being employed. The 1904 notice gives thirty-eight legions and prints Volac, Valak and Valu among his names. [1]
Scot’s Valac has thirty legions rather than thirty-eight. His delivery clause places the serpents in the conjuror’s hands and likewise excludes force or strength. [1][2]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, entry 62, Volac/Valak/Valu; printed p. 28, PDF p. 25
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Valac; 1886 reprint p. 324.
