Alloces

Alloces is a product of the post-medieval European grimoire tradition: he appears in catalogues of spirits intended for ceremonial evocation rather than in vernacular folk narratives. He is listed among the seventy-two spirits of the Ars Goetia (the Lesser Key of Solomon) and appears with variant entries in related compilations such as the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Liber Officiorum Spirituum. The grimoire corpus projects a bureaucratic, militarized unseen order in which Alloces holds the office of a duke/grand duke commanding legions of lesser spirits; later commentators (for example Ruddian correspondences cited in the compiled tradition) pair him with the angel Imamiah in an oppositional schema.

Descriptions vary between corpus witnesses. In the Lesser Key of Solomon / Pseudomonarchia Daemonum tradition (as summarized in modern listings) Alloces is described as a soldier or knight with a lion's face, a ruddy/red complexion, flaming eyes, mounted on an enormous horse and breathing fire. By contrast, the Liber Officiorum Spirituum records variant forms Allogor/Algor and depicts him as a spear‑toting knight without the leonine head or explicit fire-breathing. The differing descriptions are recorded among grimoire witnesses rather than harmonized into a single canonical image.

Across the grimoire entries Alloces is credited primarily with intellectual and advisory functions: teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences and (in some summaries) granting familiars. The Liber Officiorum variants (Allogor/Algor) emphasize practical counsel: answering questions, providing advice for plans, explaining secrets, and in one account aiding in garnering the favor of nobles. He is also presented as a commanding spirit who rules multiple legions of lesser spirits — sources give differing legion counts (commonly 36 legions in Ars Goetia/Pseudomonarchia summaries; 30 legions in the Liber Officiorum listing). Visual attributes such as fire-breathing and flaming eyes appear in some descriptions and imply an association with luminous or destructive force; one modern summary also notes that he "speaks with much gravity."