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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 02
Also recorded as Agreas
Teaching languages, returning runaways, moving those who stand still, destroying dignities, and causing earthquakes. [1]
Goetia 1904
Agares follows Baëll in Scot’s inventory as the first duke of the East. The old man, crocodile and hawk already appear in this earlier account, together with thirty-one legions and membership in the order of Virtues. The 1904 description identifies the bird more specifically as a goshawk. [2][1]
Agares teaches languages and reverses the direction of movement: runaways return, while people who stand still flee. Earthquakes and the overthrow of spiritual and temporal dignities extend his office to the land and its authorities. These disruptive powers follow Scot’s identification of him as the first duke of the East. [2][1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, numbered catalogue entry 2, Agares; facsimile PDF page 10 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Agares; 1886 reprint page 314
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10