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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 67
Also recorded as Amdukias
Producing instrumental music, bending trees, and providing excellent familiars. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Amduscias begins as a unicorn and, in human form, causes trumpets and musical instruments to be heard without being seen. The Goetia names Amdusias or Amdukias and describes the instruments as heard, but not soon or immediately. Both give bending trees, excellent familiars and twenty-nine legions. [2][1]
Trumpets and other instruments are heard while trees bend at command, giving Amdusias effects both audible and visible. Scot explicitly keeps the instruments unseen. The Goetia instead qualifies the time at which their sound is heard. This change in wording shifts attention from the source of the music to the delay before it begins. [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 67, Amdusias; facsimile PDF page 26 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Amduscias; 1886 reprint page(s) 324.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10