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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 04
Also recorded as Gamigin
Teaching the liberal sciences and reporting on souls of people who died in sin. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot calls this spirit Gamigin and places the account near the end of his inventory. A little horse becomes a human figure with a hoarse voice. Thirty legions accompany the teaching of the liberal sciences, as in the later Goetia, whose principal name is Samigina and whose initial animal can also be an ass. [2][1]
The earlier account describes the dead in greater detail. It names souls drowned at sea and souls in purgatory, which it calls Cartagra and explains as affliction of souls. They receive aerial bodies, appear and answer questions; Gamigin remains until the requested conversation is accomplished. The 1904 account describes the relevant souls as those who died in sin. [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 4, Samigina; facsimile PDF page 10 (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, Gamigin; 1886 reprint page 323
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10