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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 69
Decarabia first appears as a star in a pentacle and then becomes human. His bird likenesses fly, sing and drink like natural birds, while his knowledge concerns birds and precious stones. [1]
Goetia 1904
Decarabia appears as a star in a pentacle before taking a man’s image at command. He knows the virtues of birds and precious stones and produces likenesses of all kinds of birds before the exorcist. They fly, sing and drink as natural birds do. Thirty legions are beneath the great marquis. [1]
Scot also names Carabia, gives herbs rather than birds among the virtues known, and describes birds remaining as though tame. The initial appearance is represented by a star-like printed mark, without the later explicit words star in a pentacle or subsequent human shape. [1][2]
Nicholson takes the asterisk in the corresponding Latin phrase as a marker of a word or words the copier could not supply. His explanation groups it with obscure marks under Buer and Aym. [1][3]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, entry 69; printed p. 30, PDF p. 27; character figure 76 on preliminary plate 3, PDF p. 3
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Decarabia; 1886 reprint p. 324.
Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint page 561, item (x), Decarabia, Buer and Aym; commentary on Book XV, chapter II.
