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 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

1. As the forty-fifth spirit.
2. As the forty-fourth spirit

References

1. Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: Weiser Books. pp. 26–27. ISBN 1-57863-220-X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Rudd, Thomas (2007). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press. p. 147. ISBN 073872355X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000). par. 23.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
4. de Plancy, Jacques Collin (1853). Dictionnaire infernal (in French). Paris: Sagnier et Bray. p. 688.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
5. Stratton-Kent, Jake (2016). Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordence of Diverse Spirit Catalogues. Hadean Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-907881-66-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
6. • Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by Hockley, Frederick. Teitan Press. p. 20. ISBN 0933429258.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
     *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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
7. Rudd 2007, pp. 366-376.