The Seventy-Two Spirits · 52

Alloces

Also recorded as Alocas

A red lion-like face and flaming eyes look out from a soldier on a great horse. Alloces speaks in an enormous, hoarse voice, teaches astronomy and supplies good familiars. [1]

Goetia 1904

Spirit profile

Rank: Duke [1]
Attributed Office: Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing good familiars. [1]
Legion Count: 36 legions. [1]
Description of the Entity: A soldier or warrior on a great horse, with a very red lion-like face and flaming eyes; a loud, hoarse voice. [1]

An armoured rider with a red-haired lion's head and glowing eyes sits on a dark horse. — **Artistic interpretation** Alloces

A ring-cornered rectangular frame holds crossed stems, lower arches and descending circles around a tall central cross. — **Source reproduction** Alloces's printed character, figure 59. Goetia, 1904.

The red face and the great voice

Alloces, also called Alocas, appears as a soldier or warrior on a great horse. His lion-like face is very red, his eyes flame, and his voice is both hoarse and very big. Astronomy and all the liberal sciences are his teaching subjects; he gives good familiars and commands thirty-six legions. [1]

Scot uses Allocer and calls the voice big without the later adjective hoarse. The 1904 note stresses that the unusual description of the voice is the wording found in its codices. [1][2]

Sources and editions

The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — entry 52: Alloces
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 52 and appearance/voice notes; printed p. 26, PDF p. 23
The Discoverie of Witchcraft — Allocer
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Allocer; 1886 reprint p. 326.

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