The Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
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Rat,
Scarlet Vexation
Type

Lesser spirits

Preferred form

First level: Rat


Scarlet Vexations: Transmits disease and the Pestilence, often appears in the appearance of a rat at the first level. Arthur Underwood had preserved one. [1]

Description[]

On the first level, this spirit appears like a rat (zool.:rattus norvegicus). With Magic Lenses, the demon appears red and black with a spongy face and beetle-like wings, as well as an accordion-like abdomen. The specimen, which Arthur Underwood had kept in a jar in his laboratory, had opened its eyes, they looked sad. [1]

Occurrence[]

In the laboratory of Arthur Underwood, a captured specimen had been lying in a pickling fluid for over fifty years. The lesser spirit was captured by the Lincoln's Inn Medical Institute and bottled. [1]

Appearance[]

The Amulet of Samarkand

Source[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapter 9, Page 71, (Corgi-edition 2010)</small
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