free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Alpan 32 Draw a magical hexagram on your bedroom door with chalk and imbue it with the names of the three magi who visited the Christ child after his birth: Balthasar, Caspar, and Melchior Variations of this preventive method say that the head of the household must make a pentagram on the bedroom door and empower it with names of the patriarchic prophets, Elias and Enoch Burying a stillborn child under the front door of your home will protect all the occupants who sleep there not only from alp attacks, but also from attacks by other species of vampires A less invasive defense is to keep your shoes at the side of your bed at night when you fall asleep If the toes are pointed toward the bedroom door, it will keep the alp from entering Also, sleeping with a mirror upon your chest will scare it off you should it somehow manage to enter into the room At one time there was the practice of singing a specific song at the hearth before the last person in the house went to bed for the night Sadly, this method is no longer with us, as the words, melody, and even the name of the song have been lost to history; only the memory of once doing so remains If all preventive measures have been taken and alp attacks persist, there is hope to fend it off yet If you should awaken during the attack and find yourself being pressed down upon by an alp, put your thumb in your hand and it will flee Occasionally a witch binds an alp to her in order to inflict harm upon others Witches who have an alp in their possession have the telltale sign of letting their eyebrows grow together They allow this to happen because the alp, in this instance, lives inside the witch’s body when not in use When it leaves her through an opening in her eyebrow, it takes on the guise of a moth or white butterfly If it ever happens that you awaken in the night and see such an insect upon your chest, say to it, “Trud, come back tomorrow and I will lend you something.” The insect should immediately fly away and the next day the alp, appearing as a human, will come to your home looking to borrow something When that happens, give it nothing but say to it, “Come back tomorrow and drink with me.” The alp will leave and the following day the witch who sent the alp to attack you will come to your home, seeking a drink Give it to her and the attacks should stop Sometimes an alp will return night after night to assault the same person Fortunately, there is a powerful, if not bizarre, way to prevent this from continuing The victim needs to urinate into a clean, new bottle, which is then in a place where the sun can shine upon it for three days Then, without saying a single word, carry the bottle to a running stream and throw it over your head into the water For all the trouble an alp can prove to be, it is as easy to kill as most every other form of vampire Once it is captured, place a lemon in its mouth and set the creature ablaze Sources: Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, 423, 442, 463; Jones, On the Nightmare, 126; Nuzum, Dead Travel Fast, 234; Riccardo, Liquid Dreams, 139 Alpan Variations: Alpanu, Alpnu, La Bellaria (“Beautiful One of the Air”) As a goddess of the underworld, Alpan (“willing, with gladness), was no doubt demonized with the rise of Christianity, her name pulled from Etruscan mythology Alpan, one of the Lasas (Fate-Goddesses), was made into the demon of love, springtime, and the underworld Her name translates to mean “gift” or “offering,” but the implication is that the gift is made with a degree of implied willingness Commanding the underworld, she is depicted as a nude woman with wings, sometimes holding a bouquet of flowers or leaves, or a perfume-jar called an alabastron She was most powerful during the season of spring Sources: De Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend, 150, 163; Duston, Invisible Made Visible, 310; Lurker, Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons, 9–10 Alpas One of the SERVITORS OF AMAYMON, ARITON, ORIENS, AND PAYMON, Alpas’s name translates from Greek to mean “yielding” (see also AMAYMON, ARITON, ORIENS, and PAYMON) Sources: Belanger, Dictionary of Demons, 27; Guiley, Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, 7; Von Worms, Book of Abramelin, 255 Alphun Apollonius of Tyana’s Nuctemeron (Night Illuminated by Day) named Alphun as the demon of doves He was said to be most powerful during the eighth hour of the day Sources: Davidson, Dictionary of Angels, 14; Gettings, Dictionary of Demons, 29; Lévi, Transcendental Magic, 406 Alpiel According to the Talmud, Alpiel is the demon of fruit trees Sources: Davidson, Dictionary of Angels, 30; Gettings, Dictionary of Demons, 29; Spence, Encyclopedia of Occultism, 16 www.ebook777.com