Orobas appears within the corpus of named, ranked non-human intelligences systematised by early modern European grimoires. In the Ars Goetia (Lemegeton) he is listed as the fifty-fifth spirit of the catalogue; Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia daemonum likewise names him and gives similar attributes. The available summaries treat Orobas as a ritual agent encountered and commanded through conjuration protocols recorded in these textual traditions rather than as a figure with a separate folk‑mythic origin. The etymology of the name is uncertain; some later commentators connect it to the Latin term orobias (glossed by some sources as a type of incense), but this derivation is not established in the cited material and remains speculative.
Grimoire summaries consistently describe a two‑stage manifestation: Orobas is said to appear first in the form of a horse and, at the conjurer’s command, to assume human form. Johann Weyer’s account likewise records an initial equine appearance before Orobas takes on the image of a man. Later illustrative traditions (for example the 19th-century engraving reproduced in Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal after Louis Le Breton) present a horse‑headed anthropomorphic figure, and that visual motif has been echoed in some modern cultural uses; however, the primary grimoire descriptions emphasise the horse‑then‑man sequence tied to ritual summoning.
Summaries of the Ars Goetia and Weyer attribute several specific functions to Orobas: revealing things past, present, and to come (prophetic and revelatory knowledge); answering questions concerning divinity and the creation of the world; granting dignities and prelacies (the capacity to procure social rank or offices); and procuring the favour of friends and foes. He is said to command twenty legions of lesser spirits. Within the grimoire commentary he is repeatedly characterised as comparatively favourable toward the conjurer — described as truthful and faithful and, according to the sources cited, not inclined to permit deception or temptation by other spirits — a quality that marks him as unusually reliable in that corpus.
Bathin
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Orion
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Orphne
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