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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 54
Also recorded as Murmus, Murmux
Trumpets announce a crowned warrior riding a gryphon. Murmur teaches philosophy and constrains the souls of the dead to appear and answer the exorcist’s questions. [1]
Goetia 1904
Murmur wears a ducal crown and rides a gryphon in a warrior’s form. His ministers sound great trumpets before him. He teaches philosophy perfectly and, when desired, brings deceased souls before the exorcist under constraint to answer whatever questions are put to them. [1]
He is both duke and earl, with thirty legions, and formerly belonged partly to the Thrones and partly to the Angels. Murmus and Murmux are names printed beside Murmur. [1]
Scot specifies two trumpet-bearing ministers where the Goetia leaves their number unstated. His earlier mounted form is called a soldier, rather than the later warrior. [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 54, Murmur/Murmus/Murmux; printed p. 26, PDF p. 23
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Murmur; 1886 reprint p. 322.
