The Seal Of Solomon

Operation Chaos.

The forces of the Saracen Caliphate that have invaded the US have brought an afreet, apparently in a bottle, which means that they are prepared to break Solomon's seal. (I, p. 8)

"'What about the sealing wax on the Solly bottle?'
"'It isn't the wax that holds an afreet in, but the seal. The spells are symbolic; in fact, it's believed their effect is purely psychosomatic.'" (II, p. 13)

Having broken into the captured courthouse where the afreet is being held, Virginia chalks a Star of David inside a pentacle around the Solly bottle which is:

"...an old flask of hard-baked clay with its hollow handle bent over and returning inside - merely a Klein bottle, with Solomon's seal in red wax at the mouth." (VI. 36)

When she draws the bung and leaps out of the pentacle, the afreet emerges from the bottle but is held inside the pentacle. He is:

bent double under the ceiling;
monstrous;
gray;
nude;
anthropoid;
winged;
horned;
long-eared;
fanged;
with "...eyes like hot embers..." (ibid.);
strong;
fast;
nearly invulnerable;
able to break any attack and inflict frightful casualties;
but will be under a geas to the Saracens.

OK. That is a demon in a bottle. Now let's see how that idea pans out in Black Easter -

Father Domwnico: Stand to, stupid and disobedient!...Behold thy confusion, if thou be disobedient! Behold the Pentacle of Solomon which I have brought into thy presence!
The Sabbath Goat: FUNNY LITTLE MONK, I WAS NEVER IN THAT BOTTLE!
-James Blish, Black Easter IN Blish, After Such Knowledge (London, 1991), pp. 319-425 AT 17, p. 423.

(I have rendered the dialogue between Domenico and the Goat in dramatic form and therefore have dispensed with quotation marks.)