Ukobach, or Urobach, is a little known entity and there are not many correspondences, and no enn. Because this is a Fiery entity with an additional association to the West and Water, then we may associate him with Fire, Water or the Fiery part of Water, but mostly Fire regarding Elements, which would mean that we may have Mars as a planet and Iron as a metal.

Ukobach appears in De Plancy’s 1818 Dictionnaire Infernal. The 1863 edition included some images of various demons drawn by Louis Le Breton and Ukobach is shown as being very much like an impish type of spirit with a big head and specifically a very large nose, but a disproportionately smaller body. This imagery reminds me of the character in Harry Potter, Dobby.

Ukobach is very much a fire elemental and has been noted as being the inventor of frying and fireworks. He often appears with a blazing body, and if you’ve seen Howl’s Moving Castle, there is the little fire demon called Calcifer, who reminds of Ukoback, especially with the depiction of both carrying their trusty shovel for the coal. In Dictionnaire Infernal this is used by Ukobach to shovel the coal into fires of Hell.

The unfortunate thing is that this book is very much a Christian based study of demonology, and therefore, all of these spirits are associated with Hell and with the Infernal. Ukobach is noted as being charged by Beelzebub to maintain the “oil in the infernal boilers”, which is made of the blood of the damned, “forged in the west where the sun sets”. Now, if we do not follow the Christian worldview and therefore Hell does not actually form part of your own worldview, this obviously falls away. What we’re left with is very much that fiery spirit, the fire elemental.

What is interesting is the wording used. I don’t know if it was intentional or on purpose. Where it says “forged in the west, where the sun sets”. This would very place this spirit in a psychopompic area upon the Compass, between the aspect of Fire and Water, or in some interpretations, between midlife and death, the place where we pass into the west, across the river Styx, etc.

The other aspect of this is that it mentions being “forged in the west”. To forge is to create something, which suggests the cycle of life into death and death into life. But this could just be my interpretation of the wording and was not the original intention. It does make you wonder what people subconsciously mean when they say certain things though.

But further than that, there isn’t really a lot we can actually say about Ukobach. Jehannum state that some lore describes him as the “lamp oil for the Jack o’Lantern” and a lot of other unrelated things.

But as I said, very much the Fire elemental type of spirit. Whereas you may have heard of or worked with Salamanders in this regard and from the Paracelsus perspective of the Elemental King of Fire, being Djinn, and therefore the King of the Salamanders, we could consider Ukobach to be the same as these Salamanders. In fact, I did find another interesting use of words on demonicpedia.com where they actually refer to Ukobach in the plural. This could suggest that Ukobach are a type or group of spirits and not the name of an individual spirit. Again, this may be a slip of the tongue (or fingers) and was not the intention, but that’s two possible use of words that can be interpreted in more than one way.