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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 06
Serving as a familiar while tempting the person accompanied by him to steal. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Valefar, also called Malephar, has a lion’s body and a thief’s head. He commands ten legions and becomes familiar with a person until bringing that person to the gallows. The 1904 Goetia calls him Valefor and gives the lion an ass’s head with a bellowing voice. [2][1]
Both accounts connect companionship with theft, but the earlier description makes the punishment explicit. In the Goetia, the danger takes the form of temptation while the spirit serves as a familiar. The change from a thief’s head to an ass’s head is also a substantial difference in the reported appearance. [2][1]
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, numbered catalogue entry 6, Valefor; facsimile PDF page 11 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Valefar; 1886 reprint page 315
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10