Vine (demon)
Vine is a demon listed in demonological grimoires such the Lesser Key of Solomon[note 1][1] (including Thomas Rudd's version)[2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum,[note 2][3] and Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal.[4]
These texts rank Vine as both a king and an earl, describing him as a lion riding a black horse and carrying a viper. They ascribe to him the power to build towers, destroy walls, disturb seas, and furthermore answer questions on secrets, witches, and events past, present, and future.[1][2][3][4]
Vine may be derived from or otherwise connected to the spirit "Royne" in the Liber Officiorum Spirituum,[5] who is described only as an earl appearing like a lion-faced soldier (still riding a black horse and carrying a snake). Royne is given the power to build not only towers but houses, and can only answer questions on treasures or secrets but also has love magic, the ability to destroy enemies and consecrate objects (books especially).[6]
According to Rudd, Vine is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Sealiah.[7]
Notes
- As the forty-fifth spirit.
- As the forty-fourth spirit
References
- Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (May 2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: Weiser Books (published 2001). pp. 26–27. ISBN 1-57863-220-X.
- Rudd, Thomas (2010). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press (published 2007). p. 147. ISBN 978-0738723556.
- Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000). par. 23.
- de Plancy, Jacques Collin (1853). Dictionnaire infernal (in French). Paris: Sagnier et Bray. p. 688.
- Stratton-Kent, Jake (2016). Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordence of Diverse Spirit Catalogues. Hadean Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-907881-66-4.
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- Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by Hockley, Frederick. Teitan Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0933429253.
*Porter, John; Weston, John (2015). Harms, Daniel; Clark, James R.; Peterson, Joseph H. (eds.). The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook for Elizabethan Magic (first ed.). Llewellyn Publications. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-7387-4334-9.
- Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by Hockley, Frederick. Teitan Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0933429253.
- Rudd 2007, pp. 366–376.