The Seventy-Two Spirits · 27

Ronove

Also recorded as Ronové

Ronové teaches rhetoric, gives knowledge of languages and provides good servants. Favour with friends and enemies completes the gifts of this marquis and earl. [1]

Goetia 1904

Spirit profile

Rank: Marquis and Earl [1]
Attributed Office: Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving good servants, and obtaining favour with friends and enemies. [1]
Legion Count: 19 legions. [1]
Description of the Entity: A monster; the entry gives no further anatomy. [1]

A dark, smoky, roughly human silhouette rises beside an uninscribed brass vessel. — **Artistic interpretation** Ronove

A divided rectangular frame contains two pairs of circles and a flared vertical mark, with ring-ended stems and curls below. — **Source reproduction** Ronove's printed character, figure 32. Goetia, 1904.

Speech, service and favour

Ronové teaches rhetoric very well, supplies good servants and gives knowledge of tongues. He obtains favour with friends and foes. Nineteen legions serve him beneath the two titles of marquis and great earl. [1]

Scot’s earlier notice calls the servants faithful and describes exceptional understanding in rhetoric. [1][2]

Sources and editions

The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — entry 27: Ronove
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 27; printed p. 19, PDF p. 16
The Discoverie of Witchcraft · Ronove
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Ronove; 1886 reprint page 319

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