thumb|Orobas as illustrated by Louis Le Breton for Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal (1863).
thumb|The seal of Orobas as given in the goetic tradition.
In demonology, Orobas is a figure of the Ars Goetia, the first book of the Lemegeton or Lesser Key of Solomon. In that tradition, he is described as a Great Prince of Hell commanding twenty legions of spirits. He also appears in Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia daemonum, indicating that the figure belongs to an earlier demonological tradition later incorporated into the goetic corpus.
Textual tradition
The Lemegeton is a seventeenth-century compilation drawing on older sources, and the Ars Goetia is widely understood to depend in part on Weyer's earlier catalogue of spirits.
In popular culture
In Eduardo Sánchez's film Lovely Molly (2011), the demonic figure at the end of the film resembles Orobas in its horse-headed anthropomorphic form.
See also
- Ars Goetia
- Lemegeton
- Pseudomonarchia daemonum
- Dictionnaire Infernal