transformation · 22 entities
Changes Shape
Appears in many forms, or alters the form of others.
Held by
- Disputed11
- Infernal9
- Fallen1
- Celestial1
Attributed across 8 cultures
Which spirits are credited with it?
Each card names the texts that make the attribution. Where several texts credit the same figure with the same office, that is worth more than any one of them saying so alone.
Andrealphus
Dantalion
Isis
Egyptian
Lilith
Loki
Norse
Lucifer
Mara
Buddhist
Marbas
Odin
Norse
Oriax
Ose
Raphael
Travels as the human 'Azarias' for the length of the book.
Ravana
Vedic
Tezcatlipoca
Mesoamerican
The Asuras
Vedic
The Ghul
The Ifrit
The Incubus
The Morrígan
Celtic
The Naga
Buddhist
The Yakkha
Buddhist
Veles
Slavic
The texts that attribute this power
Oldest first. An office claimed by one late grimoire and an office claimed across two thousand years are different kinds of claim.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian
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Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
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Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
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Ramayana
Valmiki; tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · c. 500-100 BCE · Sanskrit
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The Pali Canon
Anonymous; attributed to the Buddha and his disciples · c. 100 BCE, from oral tradition · Pali
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The City of God
Augustine of Hippo; tr. Marcus Dods · 413–426 CE · Latin
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Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
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Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle
Anonymous Irish monastics · 11th c., from older oral material · Middle Irish
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The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record
Attributed to Nestor and later compilers · c. 1113, describing earlier practice · Old East Slavic
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The Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
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Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
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Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 · English
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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)
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