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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 12
Inflaming love between men and women and causing people to disclose their nakedness. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot calls the prince Sitri or Bitru. The leopard’s face, gryphon’s wings and beautiful human form all occur in his account, as do sixty legions and the power to arouse desire in men and women. His final clause uses the verb deteineth for women’s secrets, then describes their nakedness. Nicholson flags that verb as a translation problem. [2][1]
Nicholson compares the disputed clause with Weyer’s Latin and reads its action as revealing secrets, rather than detaining them. The Goetia explicitly gives Sitri the power to make people show themselves naked. The difficulty therefore concerns what the spirit does: the two accounts otherwise agree on his rank, sixty legions and changing appearance. [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 12, Sitri; 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, Sitri; 1886 reprint page 317
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint p.560; discussion of Book XV, chapter II
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10