Goetia #22

Title

Earl, Prince

Expertise

Social skills and self-confidence

Description

Besides common stuff like finding hidden treasure and divination, Ipos is called upon for confidence, wit, intellect, and courage. 

He has one of the strangest appearances in the Goetia: an angel with a lion’s head and a goose’s foot, possibly a hare’s tail. Or sometimes a lion with a goose’s head and feet, and again, hare’s tail. He occasionally appears as a lion, though an evil and crafty one. Weyer describes his weird chimerical apearance as “yet indeed more obscure and filthie than a lion,” so a nod to the lion-haters out there.

Story Notes

Ipos seems like one of those randomly generated demons, but he is a prince and therefore important. I’m not seeing any sources to back this up, but the Black Witch Coven site suggests that he’s derived from Anubis. If so…that seems a long journey, and his earlier lionlike descriptions seem to go against that idea. 

Links

demonic paradise – occult world