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Also recorded as Hauras, Havres, Flauros
Answering about events, creation, divinity and the spirits' fall, burning enemies, and preventing temptation by other spirits. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Flauros commands twenty legions; the Goetia’s Haures, Hauras, Havres or Flauros commands thirty-six. Both begin with a terrible leopard and proceed to a human form with fiery eyes. Their offices include answers about events in time, discussion of creation and the spirits’ fall, destruction of adversaries and protection against temptation. [2][1]
Scot’s printed triangle clause reverses the later condition of truthfulness: Flauros lies when he is in the triangle, whereas the Goetia places the deception outside it. Nicholson examines Weyer’s Latin and proposes moving the punctuation or inserting non, meaning not. That proposed correction makes the triangle the condition of truthful answers; it remains distinct from the opposing sentence printed in Scot. [2][1][3]
In the Goetia, the command into the triangle secures truthful answers about time, creation, divinity and the spirits’ fall. Beyond that condition, Haures deceives the questioner. He can also burn enemies and protect against temptation. The condition on truthfulness qualifies his wide-ranging answers, alongside these destructive and protective offices. [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 64, Haures; facsimile PDF pages 25, 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, Flauros; 1886 reprint page(s) 325.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint page 561, item (w), Flauros; commentary on Book XV, chapter II.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10