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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 43
Also recorded as Savnok
Building and arming towers, castles and cities, afflicting people with wounds and worm-filled sores, and giving familiars. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Sabnacke, also called Salmac, changes a person’s form and appearance, builds armed towers, castles and cities, and afflicts wounds for thirty days. The later Sabnock passage retains the fortified places and putrefying sores, describes their duration as many days, and supplies Savnok as another name. The lion-headed soldier on a pale horse and fifty-legion command are shared. [2][1]
The Goetia specifically names Sabnock among the spirits Solomon confined in the brass vessel. His individual office builds defended places and prolongs bodily injury: armed towers, castles and cities stand beside sores which putrefy for many days. Both parts of the description concern the lasting consequences of force, whether secured in a fortification or suffered in a wound. [2][1]
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 43, Sabnock; facsimile PDF pages 20, 21 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Sabnacke; 1886 reprint page(s) 320–321.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10