Balam rides a furious bear, carrying a goshawk beneath three heads and flaming eyes. His hoarse answers span past, present and future, and his gifts are invisibility and wit. [1]
Balam has the heads of a bull, a man and a ram, a serpent’s tail and flaming eyes. He rides a furious bear with a goshawk on his fist and speaks hoarsely. The great king gives true answers about past, present and future, makes people invisible and gives them wit. Forty legions are under him. [1]
The earlier hawk and Dominations
Scot’s bird is a hawk, without the later specific goshawk. He also gives Balam a former place among the Dominations and describes the gift as wisdom, where the Goetia says wit. The later notice adds Balaam as an alternative name. [1][2]
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 51, Balam or Balaam; printed pp. 25–26, PDF pp. 22–23
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Balam; 1886 reprint pp. 325–326.
