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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 16
Causing women to love men and bringing them together, while also making women barren. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot presents Zepar as a soldier commanding twenty-six legions. His account attributes women’s desire for men, alteration of their shape to enable union with their beloved, and barrenness to the same spirit. The 1904 Goetia gives the soldier red clothing and armour and retains the offices of attraction and barrenness. [2][1]
Scot’s shape-changing clause adds bodily transformation to the account of desire: a woman’s altered form enables union with her beloved. The Goetia concentrates on bringing women and men together. Both descriptions also assign barrenness to Zepar, placing the formation of an attachment beside the prevention of offspring. [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 16, Zepar; facsimile PDF page 14 (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, Zepar; 1886 reprint page 316
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10