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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 21
Also recorded as Morax
Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and precious stones. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot calls the spirit Morax or Foraii and describes a bull which can take a man’s face. The ranks earl and president agree with the later catalogue, but the legion count changes: Scot gives thirty-six, while the 1904 Goetia gives thirty. [2][1]
Astronomy and the liberal sciences are Marax’s subjects; wise familiars reveal the virtues of herbs and precious stones. The accounts agree on these offices but arrange his face differently. Scot first describes a bull which takes a man’s face, whereas the Goetia presents the great bull with a human face already attached. [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 21, Marax; facsimile PDF page 15 (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, Morax; 1886 reprint page 316
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10