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Also recorded as Leraie, Leraikha
Causing battles and contests, and making wounds inflicted by arrows putrefy. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s archer is Leraie, also called Oray. He carries a bow and quiver, causes battles and corrupts wounds made by arrows, commanding thirty legions. The 1904 Goetia adds green clothing to the archer’s appearance and records the alternative spellings Leraie and Leraikha beside Leraje. [2][1]
Scot retains the clause Quos optimos objicit tribus diebus in Latin. Nicholson acknowledges that its meaning is difficult. Warfare and the corruption of arrow wounds are clearly stated around it, while this untranslated clause records a remaining difficulty in the transmission of the office. [2][1][3]
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 14, Leraje; facsimile PDF page 13 (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, Leraie; 1886 reprint page 315
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint pp.559–560; discussion of Book XV, chapter II
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10