The Lesser Key of Solomon

That list of seventy-two spirits was taken almost directly from an earlier sixteenth-century catalogue, compiled specifically to mock demonology and help defend people accused of witchcraft — not to enable summoning. The now-iconic visual seals for each spirit were only created for a 1904 printed edition, not preserved from any older manuscript source.

Johann Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577), source of the spirit list; the 1904 Mathers–Crowley edition, source of the seals

A seventeenth-century magical compilation whose first section lists seventy-two named spirits, now central to modern ceremonial demon-summoning practice.

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