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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 hung 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.

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