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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 44
Also recorded as Shaz, Shass
Removing sight, hearing or understanding, taking royal money, fetching horses or other things, revealing unguarded hidden matters, and sometimes giving familiars. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Shax, or Scox, appears as a stork; the Goetia’s Shax, Shaz or Shass is a stock-dove. Both passages give him a hoarse, subtle voice and the theft of money from royal houses, with its return after 1,200 years. Scot calls him a horse-stealer, while the later text describes fetching horses or other things on request. [2][1]
Scot calls Shax a liar outside the triangle, and the Goetia likewise makes that enclosure a condition of truthful discovery. His access to hidden things excludes those guarded by wicked spirits. The later account also qualifies the provision of good familiars with sometimes. These stated conditions limit the promises made elsewhere in the notice about answers, possessions and secrets. [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 44, Shax; facsimile PDF page 21 (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, Shax; 1886 reprint page(s) 322.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10