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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 41
Also recorded as Forcalor, Furcalor
A man with gryphon’s wings commands winds and seas. Focalor can drown people and overturn warships, but the encounter explicitly allows a contrary command that prevents him from harming anyone or anything. [1]
Goetia 1904
Focalor’s winged human form belongs to a strong duke with power over winds and seas. His office slays people, drowns them and overturns ships of war. The Goetia then gives a precise restraint: he will hurt no person or thing if the exorcist commands him to the contrary. [1]
He hopes to return to the seventh throne after a thousand years. The main notice gives him thirty legions; its footnote reports three in several codices and proposes thirty as the more correct count. Forcalor and Furcalor are alternative names. [1]
Scot gives Focalor three legions and says he is deceived in his hope of returning. His restraint is phrased as willing consent when told to hurt no person. The 1904 account reports the hope without that judgement and extends the contrary-command protection to things as well as people. [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 41 and legion footnote; printed p. 23, PDF p. 20
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Focalor; 1886 reprint p. 323.
