Vine (demon)

Template:Short description Vine is a demon listed in demonological grimoires such the Lesser Key of Solomon<ref group="note">As the forty-fifth spirit.</ref><ref name="Peterson">Template:Cite book</ref> (including Thomas Rudd's version)<ref name="Rudd">Template:Cite book</ref> Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum,<ref group="note">As the forty-fourth spirit</ref><ref name="Weyer">Template:Cite book</ref> and Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal.<ref name="Plancy">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Peterson" /><ref name="Rudd" /><ref name="Weyer" /><ref name="Plancy" />

Vine may be derived from or otherwise connected to the spirit "Royne" in the Liber Officiorum Spirituum,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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).<ref>*Template:Cite book
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According to Rudd, Vine is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Sealiah.Template:Sfn

Popular Culture

Vine is portrayed as a first-year student attending the Babyls demon school in the Japanese anime and manga series Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun.

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