Gemory

Gemory (also Gremory, Gamori, Gaeneron, Gemon, Gemyem) is a demon listed in demonological grimoires.

Gremory by Louis Le Breton, 1863

Description

Gemory is described in demonological works such as the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic[note 1] [1][2][3] the Liber Officiorum Spirituum[note 2][4][5] the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum,[note 3][6] the Lesser Key of Solomon,[note 4][7] the Dictionnaire Infernal,[note 3][8] as appearing in the form of a beautiful woman (though as with all Goetic demons referred to using the masculine pronouns "he" and "his") wearing a duchess's crown and riding a camel, ascribed with the power of revealing hidden treasures and answering questions about the past, present, and future.[8][1][7][4][5][6] The Munich Manual, Pseudomonarchia, Lesser Key, and Dictionnaire further give Gemory the power of procuring love from women[8][1][7][6] (although the Liber Officiorum Spirituum describes him as "a companion of the love of women, and especially of maidens"),[4][5] while the Pseudomonarchia and the Lesser Key note that the duchess's crown is (somehow) worn on Gemory's waist.[7][6] Stephen Skinner and David Rankine, in their edition of The Goetia of Dr Rudd, suggest that this was a mistranslation of the Latin cingitur which should have been translated "encircling her head".[9]

Gemory is mentioned in a manuscript labelled Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum.[note 1][10]

Legions and standing
Gremory's seal in the Ars Goetia

In the Pseudomonarchia,[note 5] Lesser Key,[note 6] and Dictionnaire, Gemory is ranked as a duke ruling 26 legions of spirits,[7][6][8] but (still a duke) ruling 27 in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic[note 1][1][2][3] and ruling 5 or 42 legions as either a duke,[4] prince,[5] or captain,[4][5] in the Liber Officiorium Spirituum.[note 7][4][5]

According to Rudd, Gremory is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Poiel.[9]

See also

Notes
  1. As Gaeneron.
  2. As Gemon or Gemyem.
  3. As Gomory.
  4. Some versions listing him as Gremory or Gamori.
  5. As the 50th spirit.
  6. As the 56th spirit.
  7. As the 41st and 75th spirits.

References
  1. Kieckhefer, Richard (1997). Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 166, 292. ISBN 0-271-01750-3.
  2. Rudd, Thomas (2007). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press. p. 34. ISBN 073872355X.
  3. Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000). Introduction by Peterson.
  4. Porter, John (2011). Campbell, Colin D. (ed.). A Book of the Office of Spirits. Translated by Hockley, Frederick. Teitan Press. pp. 18, 24. ISBN 0933429258.
  5. Porter, John; Weston, John (2015). Harms, Daniel; Clark, James R.; Peterson, Joseph H. (eds.). The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook for Elizabethan Magic (first ed.). Llewellyn Publications. pp. 201, 206. ISBN 978-0-7387-4334-9.
  6. Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000). par. 51.
  7. Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: Weiser Books. p. 32. ISBN 1-57863-220-X.
  8. de Plancy, Jacques Collin (1853). Dictionnaire infernal (in French). Paris: Sagnier et Bray. p. 367.
  9. Rudd, Thomas (2007). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press. pp. 158, 374. ISBN 073872355X.
  10. Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux". Médiévales (in French) (44). Revues.org. par. 25. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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