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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 04
Also recorded as Gamigin
A little horse or ass becomes a hoarse human speaker. Samigina’s teaching reaches from the liberal sciences to an account of souls who died in sin; Scot’s earlier Gamigin brings the dead themselves into the encounter. [1]
Goetia 1904
Samigina first appears as a little horse or ass and changes into human shape at the master’s request. He speaks hoarsely. As a great marquis with thirty legions, he teaches the liberal sciences and gives an account of the souls of people who died in sin. [1]
His notice names Gamigin as an alternative and requires the seal to be worn before the magician when he invokes him. [1]
Scot’s Gamigin begins as a little horse, without the ass alternative. He likewise becomes human, speaks hoarsely and teaches the liberal sciences, but his dealings with the dead are more elaborate. Souls drowned at sea and souls in purgatory are given aerial bodies so that they can appear and answer questions at the conjuror’s command. [1][2]
The earlier passage calls this purgatory Cartagra and explains the name as ‘affliction of souls’. Gamigin stays with the exorcist until the requested encounter is accomplished. Those categories, bodies and duration belong to Scot’s notice; the Goetia’s shorter account names souls who died in sin. [2][1]
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 4, Samigina or Gamigin; printed pp. 12–14, PDF pp. 10–11
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Gamigin; 1886 reprint page 323
