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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 14
Also recorded as Leraie, Leraikha
Clad in green with bow and quiver, Leraje carries warfare into the wound. His notice attributes battles and contests to him, and the putrefaction of wounds made by archers’ arrows. [1]
Goetia 1904
Leraje appears as an archer dressed in green, carrying a bow and quiver. The great marquis causes battles and contests and makes arrow wounds putrefy. His notice assigns him to Sagittarius and gives him thirty legions. Leraie and Leraikha appear among its alternative spellings. [1]
Scot’s Leraie, also called Oray, has the same bow, quiver, battle office and thirty legions, but no stated green clothing. Between the arrow wounds and legion count, his text preserves a Latin sentence, ‘Quos optimos objicit tribus diebus’. Nicholson acknowledges that its meaning remains an unsolved puzzle for him and his readers. That difficult clause does not appear in the 1904 notice. [1][2][3]
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 14, Leraje/Leraikha; printed p. 16, PDF p. 13
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Leraie; 1886 reprint page 315
Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint pp.559–560; discussion of Book XV, chapter II
