WMiT?: Goetia

What Magic is This?: Goetia

Douglas Batchelor

Say the word Goetia and what comes to mind for many a magician is the summoning of Demons from the pits of hell. Yet many magicians are unaware from where the word Goetia came from but also what Goetia actually was. In this Episode of WMiT?, we go through the origins of Goetia as an ancient Greek tributary funeral practice, how the meaning of Goetia changed in the Renaissance and to the document that most people know the word from- The Ars Goetia, a very unique Grimoire. You’ve been summoned.

My Guest for this episode is Tom McArthur. Tom is a Gardnarian Witch as well as a Classicist who also has a passion for the Greek Magical Papyri. He writes on his blog Crosscountry Witchcraft, which has some wonderful writings there. He has appeared a few times on Seeking Witchcraft Podcast as well so check them both out! He can be found lurking of Twitter as well, always sharing some amazing insights!

Show Notes

• Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Illes Johnston – Great info about Greek Goetia. Highly Recommend
  
• Awakening the Dead for Love – Robert Ritner
  
• Goêteia- Explorations in Chthonic Sorcery
  
• Livre des Esperitz – Translate the Page
  
• Liber Officiorum Spirituum
  
• Pseudomonarchia Daemonum by Johann Weyer
  
• The Discoverie Of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
  
• The Heptameron
  
• The Ars Goetia – Full Grimoire
  
• Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis
  
• The Goetia of Dr. Rudd
  
• The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition by Allegra Iafrate
  
• Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues by Jake Stratton-Kent
  
• Dictionnaire Infernal
  
• Geosophia: The Argo of Magic by Jake Stratton-Kent
  
• Goetia and Grimoire Magic Facebook Group – Well worth Joining
  

The Only Books You Need to Get Going

• Lesser Key of Solomon: Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil Edited by Joseph H. Peterson
  
• The Goetia of Dr. Rudd edited by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
  
• Magister Officiorum by Julio Cesar Ody