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'''Bune''' is a [[demon]] listed in [[Demonology|demonological]] [[grimoire]]s such the ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]''<ref group="note">As the twenty-sixth spirit.</ref><ref name="Peterson">{{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=18}}</ref> (including [[Thomas Rudd]]'s version, as Bime)<ref name="Rudd">{{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 |page=128}}</ref> [[Johann Weyer]]'s ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]'',<ref group="note">As the twenty-third spirit.</ref><ref name="Weyer">{{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. 23}}</ref> [[Jacques Collin de Plancy]]'s ''[[Dictionnaire Infernal]]'',<ref name="Plancy">{{cite book |last=de Plancy |first=Jacques Collin |author-link=Jacques Collin de Plancy |title=Dictionnaire infernal |year=1853 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ng8JAAAAQAAJ |language=French |location=Paris |publisher=Sagnier et Bray |publication-date=1853 |page=124}}</ref> and the [[Livre des Esperitz]].<ref group="note">As the twenty-seventh spirit.</ref><ref name="Boudet">{{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 |year=2003 |language=French |issue=44 |publisher=Revues.org |doi=10.4000/medievales.1019 |publication-date=2003 |at=par. 25, 60|doi-access=free }}</ref>

All of these texts describe Bune as a duke who is able to move the dead, make one rich, and answer a variety of questions.<ref name="Peterson" /><ref name="Rudd" /><ref name="Weyer" /><ref name="Plancy" /><ref name="Boudet" />  The Livre des Esperitz claims that Bune rules 35 legions of spirits,<ref name="Boudet" /> while the other texts only give him 30 legions to command.<ref name="Peterson" /><ref name="Rudd" /><ref name="Weyer" /><ref name="Plancy" />  The other texts further describe Bune's appearance as a three headed dragon (with one head being human) and give him the additional powers of making devils gather around graves and making one wise and charismatic.<ref name="Peterson" /><ref name="Rudd" /><ref name="Weyer" /><ref name="Plancy" />

Practicing occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon suggests that the name ultimately derives from [[Buto]] (a title for Isis),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Runyon |first1=Carroll |title=The Book of Solomon's Magick |date=September 1996 |publisher=Church of the Hermetic Science Incorporated |isbn=978-0-9654881-1-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXnVPQAACAAJ |language=en |page=156}}</ref> as part of an overall claim that the Lesser Key of Solomon was by Solomon and rooted in [[Mesopotamian mythology]].{{sfn|Rudd|2010|pages=51-52}}

According to Rudd, Bune is opposed by the [[Shemhamphorasch]] angel Haaiah.{{sfn|Rudd|2010|pages=366-376}}

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== References ==
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{{Demons in the Ars Goetia}}
{{Demons in Pseudomonarchia Daemonum}}

[[Category:Goetic demons]]
[[Category:Dragons]]
[[Category:Mythical many-headed creatures]]


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