Goetic demon Nº 44 of 72
Shax
Marquis · 30 legions · Moon ☽
How Shax appears
A stock-dove, speaking in a voice hoarse but subtle.
What Shax does
- Takes away sight, hearing and understanding; steals money from kings' houses and returns it; steals horses; discovers hidden things not kept by spirits; gives familiars that may deceive. A great liar unless in the triangle.
The original text
The Forty-fourth Spirit is Shax, or Shaz (or Shass). He is a Great Marquis and appeareth in the Form of a Stock-Dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. His Office is to take away the Sight, Hearing, or Understanding of any Man or Woman at the command of the Exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of Kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be commanded into a Triangle, △, or else he will deceive him, and tell him many Lies. He can discover all things that are Hidden, and not kept by Wicked Spirits. He giveth good Familiars, sometimes. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc.
The Goetia, Mathers & Crowley (1904), entry 44, as reprinted by de Laurence (1916). Public domain.
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