Also called Ring of Solomon, Solomon's Seal (symbol), Khatam Sulaiman
The legendary signet ring of King Solomon, said to give him command over demons, and the star symbol (a hexagram or a pentagram) later used for it on amulets across Jewish, Christian and Islamic magic.
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In this Greek text, Solomon prays in the Temple and the archangel Michael brings him a ring whose seal binds demons. He uses it to question a series of demons about their powers and the angels who defeat them, and sets them to work building the Temple.
Solomon captures Ashmedai, king of demons, with a chain and a ring engraved with the divine name. Ashmedai later tricks him out of the ring and takes his throne for a time. Here the power is God's name, not a star.
Islamic writers said the ring came from heaven, with brass and iron parts for sealing commands to good and evil jinn. A demon steals it and rules in Solomon's place until the ring is found inside a fish. The six-pointed seal appears on talismans, metalwork and in metalwork across the Islamic world.
Solomon's fame for wisdom made him the patron of exorcists in antiquity. The historian Josephus, in the 1st century, described a Jew named Eleazar drawing a demon out of a possessed man in front of Vespasian using a ring and a root prescribed by Solomon. The Greek Testament of Solomon, composed some time from the late 1st century onward, gave the ring its full legend. The Talmud's ring bore the name of God, and Encyclopaedia Judaica notes that by the 6th century Byzantine amulets already used the phrase seal of Solomon for the hexagram.
Scholars think the hexagram form spread through medieval Arabic magic and then into Spanish Kabbalah, while the pentagram form became popular in Renaissance European grimoires such as the 17th-century Lesser Key of Solomon. Jews in places like Prague used the hexagram on community banners from the 14th century, and it slowly became the Magen David, or Star of David. The star on Morocco's flag, adopted in 1915, originally represented the seal, and it also appeared on Nigeria's flag under British rule.
An open right hand, often with an eye in the palm, hung in the home or worn to push back the evil eye and bless a household.
The pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn in one unbroken line; a pentacle is that star set inside a circle, or, in ritual magic and Wicca, a disc engraved with it. Used for thousands of years for health, protection and the five elements, it only gained its sinister reputation in the 19th century.
A five-by-five Latin word square that reads the same in every direction, written on walls, plates and paper for nearly two thousand years against fire, illness and bewitchment.
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