He knows the virtue hidden in every stone and the secret of every bird.
The Spirit
Decarabia — sometimes written Carabia — is the sixty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia and a Marquis. He appears at first not as a beast or a man but as a star within a pentagram, a purely geometric manifestation unusual among the seventy-two, and only afterward, at the conjurer's command, does he take on the likeness of a man. This abstract first form suits a spirit whose knowledge is of the hidden properties woven into the natural world.
His province is the lore of herbs, stones, and birds — the medieval science of natural virtues, in which every created thing was thought to carry a particular occult power. Decarabia is the master of these correspondences, and the tradition remembers him as a naturalist among spirits, one whose gift is the reading of the secret qualities of things.
Office
The Ars Goetia records that Decarabia knows the virtues of all herbs and precious stones, and can make the likeness of all manner of birds to fly before the conjurer, so that they sing and drink as natural birds do. His office is thus the disclosure of natural power — the hidden efficacy of plants and gems — together with the conjuring of these lifelike birds, which come and go at his command and serve as familiars to the one who has summoned him.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 69 |
| Rank | Marquis |
| Legions | 30 |
| Appearance | A star within a pentagram, later a man |