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Halphas
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Demonology/0YlHYNWT">demonology</a>, Halphas (listed in Skinner & Rankine's edition as <i>Malthas</i>, and in the <a href="/facts/Aleister_Crowley/Y8Dv7rAE">Crowley</a>/<a href="/facts/Samuel_Liddell_MacGregor_Mathers/6w5RhCFm">Mathers</a> edition as <i>Halphas</i>, <i>Malthus</i>, or <i>Malphas</i>) is the thirty-eighth <a href="/facts/Demon/eAz75uzo">demon</a> in the <i>Ars <a href="/facts/Goetia/YHBCr07R">Goetia</a></i> in the <i><a href="/facts/Lesser_Key_of_Solomon/YHBCr07R">Lesser Key of Solomon</a></i> (forty-third in <a href="/facts/Johann_Weyer/2ydSh5Ro">Johann Weyer</a>'s <a href="/facts/Pseudomonarchia_Daemonum/8Ul2ooRq">Pseudomonarchia Daemonum</a>), ranked as an earl. </p><p>Most manuscripts describe Halphas as a hoarse-voiced <a href="/facts/Stock_dove/2BxyrNsl">stock dove</a> (though Weyer and <a href="/facts/Collin_de_Plancy/h054xpuC">Collin de Plancy</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Dictionnaire_Infernal/6ta3tmUC">Dictionnaire Infernal</a></i> describe him as a <a href="/facts/Stork/JwsYJyYd">stork</a>), who supplies weapons and ammunition for towers (Weyer and de Plancy have "towns" or "villes" instead), sends men to war, and commands 26 legions of spirits. </p><p>According to Skinner & Rankine, Halphas is opposed by the <a href="/facts/Shemhamphorasch/A5jMKsW6">Shemhamphorasch</a> angel Haamiah. </p>