Shax

The forty-fourth spirit.

Number44 of 72
RankMarquis
Legions30

The Forty-fourth Spirit is Shax, or Shaz (or Shass). He is a Great Marquis and appeareth in the Form of a Stock-Dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. His Office is to take away the Sight, Hearing, or Understanding of any Man or Woman at the command of the Exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of Kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be commanded into a Triangle, △, or else he will deceive him, and tell him many Lies. He can discover all things that are Hidden, and not kept by Wicked Spirits. He giveth good Familiars, sometimes. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc.

As printed in the De Laurence Lesser Key of Solomon, page 18. The text above is that page’s, not a paraphrase of it.

The two editions disagreed here. The heading in Mathers reads Shan and the De Laurence printing reads Shax — and the sentence underneath the Mathers heading itself begins “The Forty-fourth Spirit is Shax, or Shaz”. A heading its own entry contradicts is a setting error, so the reading the text supports is the one shown. It is recorded here rather than quietly corrected.
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