page_title: Furcas
hierarchical_section_title: Furcas
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Forcas from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal (1863).
context_page_description: In demonology, Furcas is a Knight of Hell, and rules 20 legions of demons. He teaches Philosophy, Astronomy, 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.
  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
  The etymology of his name may be derived from the Latin word furca, meaning fork, or from Greco-Roman also meaning a sepulchre.
context_section_description: In demonology, Furcas (also spelled Forcas) is a Knight of Hell (the rank of Knight is unique to him), and rules 20 legions of demons. 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).
  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)
  The etymology of his name may be derived from the Latin word furca, meaning  fork, or from Greco-Roman also meaning a sepulchre (tomb).
caption: Image of Furcas from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal
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