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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 61
Making people witty or wise, changing wine, water and blood, and turning metals into coin. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Zagan converts water to wine, wine to water, blood to wine and wine to blood. The Goetia lists the first three of those changes. Both describe a gryphon-winged bull followed by a human form, thirty-three legions and the conversion of metals into coin belonging to their dominion. [2][1]
Zagan makes fools wise and people witty while changing metals and liquids. His metalworking has a specified result: coin belonging to the metal’s dominion, a form of recognised currency. Wine, water and blood undergo their separately named exchanges, setting changes in substance beside the conferral of wit and wisdom. [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 61, Zagan; facsimile PDF page 25 (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, Zagan; 1886 reprint page(s) 323–324.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10