Halphas
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In demonology, Halphas (listed in Skinner & Rankine's edition as Malthas,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and in the Crowley/Mathers edition as Halphas, Malthus, or Malphas)Template:Sfn is the thirty-eighth demon in the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of SolomonTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn (forty-third in Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum),Template:Sfn ranked as an earl.
Most manuscripts describe Halphas as a hoarse-voiced stock doveTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn (though Weyer and Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal describe him as a stork),Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn who supplies weapons and ammunitionTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn for towersTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn (Weyer and de Plancy have "towns" or "villes" instead),Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn sends men to war, and commands 26 legions of spirits.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
According to Skinner & Rankine, Halphas is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Haamiah.Template:Sfn
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