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(Uvall, from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863)


This demon is know variously as Uvall, Vuall, Vual and Voval. Mathers wrote: "He is a Duke, Great, Mighty and Strong; and appeareth in the Form of a Mighty Dromedary at the first, but after a while at the Command of the Exorcist he putteth on Human Shape, and speaketh the Egyptian Tongue, but not perfectly." Aleister Crowley, in his self-adopted role as editor of the Goetia, added the cynical note: "He can nowadays converse in sound though colloquial Coptic." Mathers continued: "His Office is to procure the Love of Women, and to tell Things Past, Present, and to Come. He also Procureth Friendship between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Potestates or Powers. He governeth 37 Legions of Spirits,...

The reference to the imperfect voicing of the Egyptian tongue may be founded on a misinterpretation of the original text. Scot wrote concerning this demon, "he soundeth out in a base voice the Aegyptian toong" (Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft, page 225). By this Scot probably meant that the spirit spoke Egyptian in a bass, or very deep, voice, not that his grammar was uneducated - English spelling in Scot's time was imprecise.


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