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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 43
Also recorded as Savnok
A lion-headed soldier on a pale horse builds armed towers, castles and cities. Sabnock also afflicts people for many days with rotten, worm-filled wounds and provides familiars when asked. [1]
Goetia 1904
Sabnock appears as an armed soldier with a lion’s head on a pale-coloured horse. He builds high towers, castles and cities and furnishes them with armour. He also afflicts people for many days with rotten wounds and sores full of worms, and gives good familiars at request. Fifty legions are beneath this great marquis. [1]
His individual notice expressly recalls Solomon commanding the spirits into the vessel of brass. Savnok is printed as an alternative name. [1]
Scot calls him Sabnacke or Salmac and sets the affliction at thirty days, rather than the later ‘many days’. His armed places are full of weapons, and he also changes a person’s form and appearance. That bodily-change office is not included in the 1904 notice. [1][2]
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 43, Sabnock or Savnok; printed pp. 23–24, PDF pp. 20–21
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Sabnacke; 1886 reprint pp. 320–321.
