Bifrons teaches astrology, geometry and the virtues of stones and woods. His other work belongs to burial grounds, where he moves the dead and lights seeming candles upon their graves. [1]
Bifrons first appears as a monster. After a while, at the exorcist’s command, he becomes a man. He makes people knowledgeable in astrology, geometry and other arts and sciences and teaches the virtues of precious stones and woods. [1]
He changes the location of dead bodies and lights what the passage calls seeming candles upon graves. [1]
Six, twenty-six and the proposed sixty
The Goetia’s main text gives the earl six legions. Its footnote proposes sixty as the likely correction. Scot instead gives twenty-six and supplies more specific subjects: the mansions of the planets, geometry and measurement. Herbs also join his stones and woods. [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 46 and legion footnote; printed p. 24, PDF p. 21
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Bifrons; 1886 reprint p. 323.
