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{{Short description|Demon}}
'''Bathin''' (also ''Bathym'', ''Mathim'', or ''Marthim'') is a [[demon]] described in [[Demonology|demonological]] [[grimoire]]s.
== Variations ==
He is ranked as a duke in the ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]'' (as the eighteenth spirit) and [[Johann Weyer]]'s ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]'' (as the tenth spirit), where he is described as a serpent-tailed and muscular man riding a pale horse, who knows the properties of plants and stones, transports people across countries, and rules 30 legions of demons.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Peterson |editor-first=Joseph H. |title=Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil; |date=May 2001 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfIrE3QtmFEC |language=English |location=Maine |publisher=[[Weiser Books]] |publication-date=2001 |isbn=1-57863-220-X |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |year=1563 |last=Weyer |first=Johann |author-link=Johann Weyer |editor-last=Peterson |editor-first=Joseph H. |title=Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum) |url=http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/weyer.htm |language=English |publisher=Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives |publication-date=2000 |at=par. 10}}</ref>  He also appears in the Livre des Esperitz, as "Machin," without the horse but ruling 37 legions of demons.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Boudet |first=Jean-Patrice |title=Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux |journal=Médiévales. Langues, Textes, Histoire |url=http://medievales.revues.org/1019 |series=Médiévales |language=French |issue=44 |publisher=Revues.org |doi=10.4000/medievales.1019 |publication-date=2003 |at=par. 25, 28, 49}}</ref>  The German edition of ''[[The Grimoire of Pope Honorius]]'' describes Bathin (again by the name Machin) as teaching about and providing foreign plants and rocks.<ref>{{cite book |translator-last=Ch'ien |translator-first= Kineta|editor-last=Banner |editor-first=James |title=The Grimoire of Pope Honorius |year= 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyEUAgAACAAJ |language=English |edition=first |location=Seattle, Washington |publisher=Trident Books |publication-date=1999 |isbn=1879000091 |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Rankine |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Barron |editor2-first=Paul Harry |title=The Complete Grimoire of Pope Honorius |date=August 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qOHngEACAAJ  |language=English |publisher=Avalonia Books |publication-date=2013|edition=First |location=London |isbn=978-1-905297-65-8 |page=221 }}</ref>  In the ''[[Grand Grimoire]]'', he (as Bathsin or Bathim) is listed as a subordinate of Fleurety.<ref>{{cite book |year=1913|last=Waite |first=Arthur Edward |author-link= A. E. Waite|title=The Book of Ceremonial Magic |url=http://sacred-texts.com/grim/bcm/index.htm |chapter=Part II, Chapter III: 'Concerning the Descending Hierarchy,' Section 1: 'The Names and Offices of Evil Spirits' |chapter-url=http://sacred-texts.com/grim/bcm/bcm51.htm#page_184 |pages=184–193|language=English |publisher=[[Internet Sacred Text Archive]] |publication-date=2002 }}</ref>  According to Rudd, Bathin is opposed by the [[Shemhamphorasch]] angel Caliel.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rudd |first=Thomas |author-link1=Thomas Rudd |editor1-last=Skinner |editor1-first=Stephen |editor1-link=Stephen Skinner (author) |editor2-last=Rankine |editor2-first=David |title=The Goetia of Dr Rudd |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ws6CRAAACAAJ |language=English |publisher=Golden Hoard Press |publication-date=2007 |isbn=978-0738723556 |pages=366–376}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Demons in the Ars Goetia}}
{{Demons in Pseudomonarchia Daemonum}}
[[Category:Goetic demons]]
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