Demonic · Goetic Spirit · c. 1577 CE
Seere
Also called Sear, Seir
Among the most obliging spirits in the book: he comes and goes in the twinkling of an eye, brings abundance of all things, carries goods wherever he is sent, and is described as willing to do what he is asked. A beautiful man on a winged horse, and absent from Weyer.
Single lineage
Form. A beautiful man riding a winged horse.
Offices. Goes and comes in the twinkling of an eye, brings abundance of all things, carries goods where bidden, and discovers thefts and hidden treasures. Of a good nature and willing to do the operator's will.
Identity
Where does the name come from?
Where it was actually worshipped
None. The Ars Goetia is a conjuring manual and not a liturgy: its spirits are constrained, put to work and dismissed, never housed or offered to. Not one of the seventy-two has a temple, a shrine, a festival or a place-name anywhere.
A figure with temples and a figure that only ever existed on a page are different kinds of thing, and the difference is easy to lose once both are entries in a list.
At a glance
Vitals
Vitals
Also known as
- Rank
- Prince
- Order
- Goetic Spirit
- Base of operations
- None. The Ars Goetia is a conjuring manual and not a liturgy: its spirits are constrained, put to work and dismissed, never housed or offered to. Not one of the seventy-two has a temple, a shrine, a festival or a place-name anywhere.
- Era
- c. 1577 CE
- Traditions
- Solomonic, Folk & Demonological
- Placed in
- Ranks of the Seventy-Two
Traits
- Traditional form
- A beautiful man riding a winged horse.
- Goetic rank
- Prince
Stats
5 attributed
What is it said to do?
Where these powers cluster
The 5 offices attributed to Seere, grouped by kind. Segment width is the share of powers falling in each category.
A bar dominated by one colour means a specialist; an even spread means a figure the sources credit with almost anything.
- divination2
- material1
- martial1
- transformation1
divination
material
martial
transformation
1 mark
Which marks is it attached to?
A mark a figure carries and a mark used against a figure are opposite claims, so each link says which it is.
1 texts
Which texts say so?
Absent from Weyer. One of four spirits the Ars Goetia adds — the others are Vassago, Seere, Dantalion and Andromalius — against the one Weyer carries that the Goetia drops, Pruflas.
Goes and comes in the twinkling of an eye, brings abundance of all things, carries goods where bidden, and discovers thefts and hidden treasures. Of a good nature and willing to do the operator's will.
“The Seventieth Spirit is Seere, Sear, or Seir. He is a Mighty Prince, and Powerful, under AMAYMON, King of the East.”
Connections
What is it connected to?
Nothing, and that is what the source says. The Ars Goetia gives Seere a rank, a number of legions, a list of offices and a seal, and no relationship to any other spirit in the book — no lineage, no faction, no quarrel. Sixty-seven of the seventy-two are in the same position. A catalogue of self-contained entries is what that text is, and the emptiness here is the shape of it rather than work outstanding.
Placement
Where does it sit in the hierarchies?
Answered from the sources
Common questions
Which texts mention Seere?
What rank is Seere?
How else is Seere spelled?
What is Seere said to do?
How old is Seere?
Nearest in the corpus
If Seere is what you came for, these are next
Chosen by proximity rather than by popularity: the same pantheon first, then the same rank, then the same kind of figure.
Beelzebub
Prince · Infernal Court
'Lord of the Flies' — a Philistine god of Ekron whose name was almost certainly deformed as a Hebrew insult, then inherited by Christian demonology as the second power of hell.
Moloch
Prince · Infernal Court
The deity of the Tophet child sacrifices in Kings and Jeremiah — or, on a long-running scholarly reading, the name of the sacrifice itself rather than a god.
Mammon
Prince · Infernal Court
Wealth personified. The gospels use the word for money itself; demonology turned the metaphor into an officer of hell.
Belphegor
Prince · Infernal Court
The Moabite Baal of Peor, reassigned by demonology as the demon of sloth and of ingenious inventions. A god turned into a joke about laziness.
Orobas
Prince · Goetic Spirit
Singled out in the Goetia as faithful and honest — he does not tempt or deceive, and he defends the operator against the other spirits, which no other entry promises. He discourses on divinity and the creation of the world.
Sitri
Prince · Goetic Spirit
A griffin-winged leopard's head that resolves into a very beautiful man. His single office is compulsion in desire, running in both directions, and the Goetia is explicit that it extends to making its objects strip.
The books behind Seere
Every claim on this profile is attributed to one of these. They are public domain, listed oldest first, and each links to a full text where one is freely available.
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
Johann Weyer · 1577 · Latin
Read Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Pieter Holsteyn II · Wikimedia file page
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia
Anonymous; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers & A. E. Waite · 17th c.; ed. 1904 · English (from Latin)
Read The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia in full ↗Cover: Public domain · anonymous design, redrawn by User:Fuzzypeg · Wikimedia file page
Corpus last revised 29 August 2026. A reference site’s credibility rests on being maintained, so this is the date the sourced records last changed — not the date the page was rebuilt.