DECARABIA

§ Introduction

Decarabia is the Sixty-ninth Spirit in the Ars Goetia. His entry reads like a medieval natural-philosophy fantasy: birds, stones, and hidden "virtues" (meaning: occult properties) are his specialty.

§ Grimoire Profile

Rank: Great Marquis
Legions: 30
Attributed office: Knowledge of birds, precious stones, illusions

§ Appearance (Traditional Description)

He appears first as a star within a pentacle, then later in human form. That "sigil-as-body" imagery is one of the more overtly symbolic Goetic descriptions.

§ Powers and Attributions

• Describing the "virtues" (occult properties) of birds and precious stones
• Making the semblance of birds appear—flying, singing, drinking—like natural birds

§ Historical and Practical Context

Decarabia represents the pre-modern dream that nature is a coded library: feathers and gems as chapters, species as sentences, symbolism as science.

§ Short Sources

• Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (Ars Goetia), 17th-century manuscript tradition