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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 26
Also recorded as Bim, Bimé
Moving the dead, assembling spirits at sepulchres, giving wealth, wisdom and eloquence, and answering questions. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Bune is a three-headed dragon whose third head resembles a man; the other two heads are unspecified. The 1904 Goetia names a dog, a gryphon and a man. Both assign thirty legions and combine wealth and eloquence with moving the dead and assembling spirits at graves. [2][1]
Scot gives Bune a divine voice. Nicholson compares that word with Weyer’s Latin muta and suggests that a word meaning mute was mistranslated. The Goetia instead calls the voice high and pleasant. Alongside its more specific three heads, this vocal description gives the later account details that differ from both Scot’s wording and Nicholson’s proposed reading. [2][1][3]
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, numbered catalogue entry 26, Bune; facsimile PDF page 16 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Bune; 1886 reprint page 319
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint p.560; discussion of Book XV, chapter II
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10