Furcas

Furcas appears in early modern Goetic-style demonological catalogues as a named intelligence within an infernal hierarchy. Manuscript and editorial variation in that corpus has sometimes conflated or distinguished him from similarly named entries (notably Foras/Forcas in editions of the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum: a 1563 edition treated Forcas as an alias of Foras, whereas a 1583 edition established Forcas/Furcas as a separate entity). The available sources present him as a catalogued officer (a Knight) rather than providing a narrative cosmogony or biographical origin.

Classical grimoire descriptions portray Furcas as a strong old man with white hair and a long white beard who sits or rides upon a pale horse and carries a sharp weapon (commonly summarized as a pitchfork or other sharp implement). This is the consistent image in the cited Goetic summaries; later modern fiction sometimes reimagines the figure but the primary tradition gives the elderly bearded horseman image.

Grimoire entries summarized in the sources describe Furcas as teaching philosophy, rhetoric, logic, astronomy (rendered as astronomy or astrology in differing accounts), chiromancy (palmistry), and pyromancy. He is said to command twenty legions of subordinate spirits. The sources emphasize didactic functions (instruction in intellectual and divinatory arts) together with military-style authority; no specific hostile powers, vulnerability, or possession rites are detailed in the provided material.