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PLATE V: CHARACTERS OF EVIL SPIRITS
bulls. They have the motion of burning fire, and their sign is thunder and lightning about
the circle. Their particular forms are an armed king riding on a wolf; 1 an armed man; a
woman holding a buckler on her thigh; a she-goat; a horse; a stag; a red garment; wool; a
cheestip. Wool of a choleric disposition is perhaps a Goëtic form of gun-cotton.
The Spirits of the Sun are usually large of body and limb, sanguine, gross, and of a gold
colour tinctured with blood--which recalls Mrs. Browning's pomegranate. Their motion is
that of lightning; their sign is to produce sweat in the operator, which might, however, be
the normal property of all these stellar nondescripts of the world infernal. Their particular
forms are a sceptred king riding on a lion; a crowned king; 2 a queen with a sceptre; a
bird-not otherwise described, but anything probably except that of paradise; a lion; a
cock; a golden garment; a sceptre; and lastly, something which Robert Turner wisely left
untranslated--caudatus, i.e., tailed.
The Spirits of Venus have a body of medium height and a pleasant visage, of which the
upper part is golden and the lower white or green. Their motion is like that of a brilliant
star. Their sign is the semblance of maids sporting about the circle and luring the
Magician to join them. Their particular forms are a sceptred king riding on a camel; a