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{{Short description|Demon in the Lesser Key of Solomon}}
{{for|people named Botis|Botis (surname)}}
'''Botis''', sometimes '''Otis''', is a [[demon]] described in the ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]'' (as the seventeenth spirit) and the ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]'' (as the ninth spirit) as a President and an Earl who initially appears as a viper before changing into a sword-toting, fanged, and horned human who discusses matters past, present, and future; brings favor from allies and enemies, and rules 60 legions of demons.<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=14 }}</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. 9 }}</ref>  In the ''[[Munich Manual of Demonic Magic]]'', Botis appears as Otius, and is mostly identical except that he is a ''preses'' and Count, appears in the more humanoid form to begin with, and rules only 36 legions of demons.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kieckhefer |first=Richard |editor-link=Richard Kieckhefer |title=Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXvRNI1S55EC |language=English |location=University Park, Pennsylvania |publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University Press]] |publication-date=1997 |isbn=0-271-01750-3 |pages=161, 165-166, 291}}</ref><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 |page=34 }}</ref>{{sfn|Weyer|1563|loc=Introduction by Peterson}}  In the ''[[Grand Grimoire]]'', Botis appears as a subordinate of Agaliarept.<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, Botis is opposed by the [[Shemhamphorasch]] angel Lauviah.{{sfn|Rudd|2010|pages=368-369}}

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

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