Fallen Angel, Sea-Duke, and 42nd Spirit of Solomon
Vepar is a Fallen Angel and the 42nd of the 72 Spirits of Solomon.
In the infernal hierarchy, Vepar holds the rank of duke and commands 29 Legions of Demons. He is a powerful maritime spirit whose dominion is closely connected with the sea, storms, ships, wounds, and death by corruption.
Appearance
Vepar appears in the form of a mermaid.
This form reflects his deep connection to the waters and to the hidden dangers of the sea. Unlike many other Solomonic spirits who appear as beasts, warriors, or monstrous hybrids, Vepar’s mermaid form links him to the mysterious, seductive, and treacherous nature of the ocean.
He is a spirit of maritime illusion, naval force, and destructive water power.
Powers and Abilities
Vepar has authority over certain matters of the sea.
He guides the waters and has power over battleships. He can cause the sea to appear filled with ships, creating visions or illusions of naval fleets upon the water.
When commanded, Vepar can raise storms at sea.
This makes him a dangerous spirit in the Solomonic tradition, especially in matters involving voyages, ships, warfare, and oceanic travel. His power is not gentle. He belongs to the darker and more perilous side of the sea: storms, conflict, disease, decay, and death.
Wounds, Disease, and Decay
Vepar is also associated with the power to afflict the body.
According to traditional grimoire lore, he can cause a person to die within three to five days from wounds that become infected, putrefy, and fill with maggots.
This image places Vepar among the demons connected not only with physical violence, but with corruption, decomposition, and the frightening transformation of the living body into death.
However, Johann Weyer notes that a person so afflicted may be healed “with diligence.” This suggests that even Vepar’s most terrifying powers are not necessarily beyond remedy, provided the condition is treated with sufficient care and effort.
Vepar’s Nature
Vepar is a spirit of the sea, but not the calm sea.
He is the ocean as battlefield.
He is the storm that rises without mercy.
He is the false fleet appearing on the horizon.
He is the wound that festers.
He is the hidden danger beneath beautiful waters.
His mermaid form may appear alluring, but his powers are severe. Vepar reminds the magician that beauty and danger often share the same face in the world of spirits.
Vepar in the Solomonic Tradition
As the 42nd Spirit of Solomon, Vepar belongs to the great hierarchy of spirits described in Solomonic demonology.
Like other spirits in the Goetia, he is not presented as a random demon of chaos, but as a ranked intelligence with a specific office, appearance, powers, and number of legions under his command.
His domain is precise: sea power, ships, storms, illusions of fleets, and the corruption of wounds.
Vepar is therefore one of the most distinctly maritime demons in the Solomonic tradition.
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From “The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King” (1904) Written by Mathers, Samuel MacGregor Liddell :
The Forty-second Spirit is Vepar, or Vephar. He is a Duke Great and Strong, and appeareth like a Mermaid. His office is to govern the Waters and Ships laden with Arms, Armour, and Ammunition, etc., thereon. And at the request of the Exorcist he can cause the seas to be right stormy and to appear full of ships. Also he maketh men to die in Three Days by Putrefying Wounds or Sores, and causing Worms to breed in them. He governeth 29 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc.
From the “Pseudomonarchia Daemonum” ( 1583 )written by Johann Weyer (Johann Wier)
Vepar, alias Separ, a great duke and a strong, he is like a mermaid, he is the guide of the waters, and of ships laden with armour; he bringeth to passe (at the commandement of his master) that the sea shalbe rough and stormie, and shall appeare full of shippes; he killeth men in three daies, with putrifieng their wounds, and producing maggots into them; howbeit, they maie be all healed with diligence, he ruleth nine and twentie legions.
Original Text :
Vepar, alias Separ, Dux magnus and fortis: Similis syreni: Ductor est aquarum and navium armis onustarum. Ut mare jussu magistri turgidum navibusque plenum appareat, efficit: contra inimicos exorcistæ per dies tres vulneribus putrescentibus vermesque producentibus homines inficit, à quibus tamen negotio absoluto sanantur omnes. Imperat legionibus vigintinovem.
From the “Dictionnaire Infernal” (edition of 1863 ) Written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
Original Text :
Vépar ou Sépar, puissant et redoutable duc du sombre empire. Il se montre sous la forme, d’une syrène, conduit les vaisseaux marchands et afflige les hommes de blessures venimeuses, qu’on ne guérit que par l’exorcisme. Il commande vingt-neuf légions.
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