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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 30
Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving a good reputation, and securing affection from enemies as well as friends. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Forneus appears as a sea-monster and commands twenty-nine legions divided between Thrones and Angels. The later Goetia retains the monster, count and former angelic affiliations. Neither account defines the creature through more detailed anatomy. [2][1]
Rhetoric and languages give Forneus’s teaching a clear emphasis on speech. A good name and affection from enemies as well as friends extend his influence to reputation and reconciliation. The sea-monster’s unspecified anatomy supplies little visual detail; the office is more precisely concerned with how a person is heard and regarded by others. [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 30, Forneus; facsimile PDF page 17 (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, Forneus; 1886 reprint page 319
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10