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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 36
Also recorded as Stolos
Teaching astronomy and the virtues of herbs and precious stones. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Stolas appears as a night-raven before taking human shape; the 1904 Goetia calls the initial bird a mighty raven. The title prince, twenty-six legions and teaching of astronomy agree across the two accounts. [2][1]
The virtues of herbs and precious stones accompany astronomy in each notice. Stolas’s instruction spans the heavens, plants and minerals. Scot also explicitly makes the night-raven take human form, giving the teaching a place after a bodily transformation which the later account describes in closely corresponding terms. [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 36, Stolas; facsimile PDF page 19 (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, Stolas; 1886 reprint page 326
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10