_A form of Conjuring_ ►Luridan◄ _the Familiar, otherwise called_
►Belelah◄.
►Luridan◄ is a Familiar Domestick Spirit of the _North_, who is
now become servant to ►Balkin◄, Lord and King of the _Northern_
Mountains, he calls himself the _Astral Genius_ of _Pomonia_, an Island
amongst the _Orcades_ beyond _Scotland_. But he is not particularly
resident there; for in the dayes of _Solomon_ and _David_, he was in
_Jerusalem_, or _Salem_, being then under the name of ►Belilah◄; after
that he came over with _Julius Cæsar_, and remained some hundred of
years in _Cambria_, or _Wales_, instructing their Prophetical Poets in
_British_ Rhimes, being then surnamed _Urthin-Wadd Elgin_, from thence
he betook himself unto this Island, _Anno_ 1500. and continued there
for 50 years, after which he resigned his Dominion to _Balkin_, and
hath continued ever since an attendant unto this Prince.
♦The nature of ►Luridan◄.♦
He is a Spirit of the Air in the order of ►Glauron◄, and is said to
procreate as mortals do; He is often sent by his Master upon errands to
_Lapland_, _Finland_, and _Strik-finia_; as also to the most _Northern_
parts of _Russia_, bordering on the _Northern_ frozen Ocean: His office
(being called by Magicians) is to demolish strong holds of Enemies,
destroying every night what they build the day before; to extinguish
fires, and make their Gunshot that it hath no power to be enkindled;
for his nature is to be at enmity with fire: and under his Master with
many Legions he wageth continual warrs with the fiery Spirits that
inhabit the Mountain _Hecla_ in _Ise-land_, where they endeavour to
extinguish these fiery flames, and the inhabiting Spirits defend the
flames from his Master and his Legions.
♦His Office♦
In this contest they do often totally extirpate and destroy one
another, killing and crushing when they meet in mighty and violent
Troops in the Air upon the Sea; and at such a time many of the fiery
Spirits are destroyed, when the Enemy hath brought them off the
Mountain to fight upon the water; on the contrary, when the battle is
on the Mountain it self, the Spirits of the Air are often worsted, and
then great mournings and doleful noises are heard both in _Iseland_ and
_Russia_, and _Norway_ for many days after.
♦The Warrs of Spirits.♦
But to proceed to the form of conjuring this aforesaid Spirit, the
Magician must draw a Circle in a Moonshine night in some solitary
Valley; the Circle must be 18 foot over, and another Circle a foot
distance within the same, being both drawn with chalk, and the
Exorcist being girded about with two Snakes skins tyed together, and
having many Snakes skins tyed to his cap, and hanging down before and
behinde, must also with Chalk draw the form of a fiery Mountain at
one side of the Circle on this manner; And round about the Mountain
these following names must be wrote, ►Glauron, Opotok, Balkin, Opotok,
Urthin, Opotok, Swaknar, Nalah, Opotok◄, ✠ ✠ ✠. After the Mountain is
drawn, he must consecrate the same in these following words, ►Ofron,
Anepheraton, Baron Barathron, Nah halge tour hecla◄, _In the Name of
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Amen_. ✠ ✠ ✠. After the Magician hath
consecrated the Mountain, he must write betwixt the circles these
following words; ►Urthin◄ ✠ ►Malc hii◄ ✠ ✠ ►Kiddal Katttron◄[*] ✠
►Agla◄ ✠ ►Glaura◄ ✠ ►Bashemo◄ ✠ ►Phowah◄ ✠ ►Elohim◄ ✠ ►Immannel◄[†] ✠
_Amen_. △ ✠ △ ✠ △ ✠. Which done, he must begin to Invocate the Spirit
on this following manner.
♦The form of the Circle and Ceremonies.♦
♦The Consecration of the Mountain.♦
♦[*] [? Kattron]♦
♦[†] [Immanuel]♦
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_O ye Powers of the East_, ►Athanaton◄; _of the West_, ►Orgon◄; _of
the South_, ►Boralim◄; _of the North_, ►Glauron◄; _I charge and
command you by the dreadful Names here mentioned, and the Consecration
of this terrible Mountain, to present your selves one of every sort
before this Circle by the power of_ ►Immanuel◄, _and his holy Name_.
After this hath with fervency been thrice repeated, the Exorcist
will hear great noises of Swords and fighting, Horses neighing, and
Trumpets sounding, and at last there will appear four little Dwarfs or
Pigmies naked before the Circle, their speech will be antient _Irish_;
which afterwards being confined to a Triangle, they will interpret;
the substance thereof will be from whence they came last, and what
wonderful things they can do; Then the Magician must ask them, if they
know one ►Luridan◄ a familiar; they will answer ►Hamah ni trulloh
Balkin◄, he is Secretary or servant unto ►Balkin◄, and after the
Exorcist hath charged them to bring the said ►Luridan◄ unto him, they
will immediately bring him like a little Dwarf with a crooked nose,
and present him before the Magician in the triangle; then the Magician
shall bind and tye him with the bond of obligation, and with his own
blood, without any contract of conditions to be performed, that he
will attend him constantly at his thrice repeating ►Luridan, Luridan,
Luridan◄, And be ever ready to go whether he will, to the _Turks_, or
to the uttermost parts of the Earth, which he can do in an hour, and
destroy all their Magazines.
♦The Conjuration.♦
♦The Apparitions.♦
♦►Luridan.◄♦
After the Magician hath so bound him, he shall receive from the Spirit
a scrole written in this manner;
♦The Compact.♦
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which is the Indenture to serve him for a year and a day; and then the
Magician shall dismiss him for that time in the form of dismission.