Aim carries a firebrand whose flame is said to burn cities, castles and great places. The handsome human body bears three heads—serpent, man and calf—while wit and answers to private questions accompany the destructive office. [1]
Aim appears with a handsome man’s body and three heads: a serpent, a man with two stars upon his forehead, and a calf. Riding a viper, he carries the firebrand with which he sets cities, castles and great places alight. The great, strong duke also makes people witty in every manner and gives true answers about private matters. Twenty-six inferior legions are under him. [1]
The cat and the two marks
Scot calls him Aym or Haborim and gives a cat’s head in place of the calf. Scot describes the human head as “having two”, followed by a star-like mark; he does not give the later notice’s forehead location. Firebrand, viper, twenty-six legions, wit and private answers are shared. [1][2]
Nicholson reads the asterisk in the Latin head clause as a missing-word marker, comparing it with similar signs under Buer and Decarabia. The Goetia places two stars on the human forehead. [3][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, entry 23; printed p. 18, PDF p. 15
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Aym; 1886 reprint page 325
Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Nicholson’s Notes, reprint p. 561, item (x): the asterisk in Aym’s head description, compared with Buer and Decarabia.
