Raum

In the grimoire and demonological listings preserved in early modern ritual magic texts, Raum is catalogued as a high-ranking daemonic officer. Several sources state he "was of the order of thrones," placing him within a layered hierarchical taxonomy that parallels angelic orders while reassigning those ranks to infernal agents. The name is also glossed in the sources as derived from German—Raum meaning "space, room, chamber" and the verb räumen meaning "to vacate, empty, evacuate"—a lexical connection noted in the same literature; however the supplied texts do not establish this German etymology as the historical origin of the entity within the older grimoire tradition, and present it as a later linguistic observation alongside the cataloguing of his rank and offices (cf. grimoire summaries such as the Lesser Key of Solomon and modern reference summaries).

The traditional description in the grimoire material records: "he is seene as a crowe, but when he putteth on humane shape, at the commandement of the exorcist..." Sources consistently depict him in avian form (a crow) which can adopt a human guise upon the conjurer's request. The grimoire entries and summaries record variant spellings (Raim, Raym, Räum, Reym, Rey) alongside this visual description.

Grimoire summaries attribute a cluster of capabilities to Raum: he "stealeth woonderfullie out of the kings house, and carrieth it whether he is assigned," indicating the power to steal treasures from royal houses and transport them to where the magician directs; he "destroieth cities, and hath great despite unto dignities," indicating ability to destroy cities and to affront social/political ranks; he "knoweth things present, past, and to come," i.e., divinatory knowledge of past, present and future; he "reconcileth freends and foes" and is said to "invoke love," indicating powers over social reconciliation and love-influence. The entries further record his rank as a "Great Earl or Count" who "governeth thirtie legions," and occult correspondence mappings in some lists (e.g., Shem HaMephorash) pair him with an angelic name (Leiazel, יזאזל/ייזאל in the cited material). All these abilities and ranks are reported in the cited grimoire/demonological summaries.