Furcas

Image of Furcas from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal

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In demonology, Furcas or Forcas is a Knight of Hell, and rules 20 legions of demons.^[1] He teaches Philosophy, Astronomy (Astrology to some authors), Rhetoric, Logic, Chiromancy and Pyromancy.

Furcas is depicted as a strong old man with white hair and long white beard, who rides a horse while holding a sharp weapon (pitch fork). He knows the virtues of all herbs and precious stones, can make a man witty, eloquent, invisible (invincible according to some authors), and live long, and can discover treasures and recover lost things.^[1]

Furcas is a knight and commeth foorth in the similitude of a cruell man, with a long beard and a hoarie head, he sitteth on a pale horsse, carrieng in his hand a sharpe weapon, he perfectlie teacheth practike philosophie, rhetorike, logike, astronomie, chiromancie, pyromancie, and their parts: there obeie him twentie legions.

– Johann Weyer (1583)^[2]

The etymology of his name may be derived from the Latin word furca, meaning fork,^[3] or from Greco-Roman also meaning a sepulchre (tomb).^[4]

References

Sources

• S. L. MacGregor Mathers, A. Crowley, The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904). 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-87728-847-X.

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