Leraie

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Leraie (also spelled Leraje, Leraye, Leriac, Loray, Oray, Zoray) is a named high-ranking spirit in the Western Goetic/grimoire tradition, described as a 'Great Marquis' who appears as a green-clad archer and is held responsible for causing battles, putrefying arrow-wounds, influencing lovers, and commanding numerous legions of subordinate spirits.

Origin

Leraie is transmitted through medieval and early modern Western grimoire listings (notably the Lesser Key of Solomon / Ars Goetia, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum lineage, Rudd's variant attributions, and later compilations). The figure emerges from the textual, hierarchical cataloguing of named spirits typical of these manuscripts: presented as a titled officer ('Marquis' or 'Marquis Great in Power') within an infernal / spirit polity, sometimes given a specific placement number (fourteenth in some Lesser Key listings; thirteenth in Pseudomonarchia Daemonum variants) and in at least one manuscript tradition (the Grand Grimoire) listed subordinate to the spirit Sargatanas (under the forms Loray or Zoray).

Appearance

Across the grimoire summaries Leraie is consistently described as appearing in the likeness of an archer: a gallant or handsome figure clad in green, bearing a bow and a quiver of arrows. This archer iconography is the principal identifying trait in the available accounts.

Abilities

Grimoire sources attribute to Leraie the causing of 'all great battles and contests' or 'great battles and disputes'; the making of arrow-wounds to putrefy or become gangrenous; the power to bring a lover to someone or to send a lover away; and, in Johann Weyer / De Plancy renderings, the ability to drive away mobs or groups. He is said to command numerous subordinate spirits (most sources record thirty legions; some summaries list thirty-three). In Rudd's angelic-opposition scheme Leraie is counterbalanced by the Shemhamphorasch angel Mehahel.

Weaknesses & Wards

Weaknesses

  • other
    opposition by the Shemhamphorasch angel Mehahel (specific to Rudd tradition)

Wards

  • other
    invocation or appeal to the angel Mehahel for opposition/protection (attested in Rudd variant)

Community Record

Sources
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    Leraie — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Leraie' (summary of grimoire attributions and variants).wiki
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    Wikidata: Leraje. Wikidata item for Leraje (name variants and identifiers).other
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    Grand Grimoire / related modern summaries (as reported). Summaries reporting that Loray / Zoray appears subordinate to Sargatanas in Grand Grimoire variants (as noted in the research notes).other
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    Goetic listings (Lesser Key of Solomon / Pseudomonarchia Daemonum summaries). Traditional Goetic spirit lists reproduced in modern sources and summaries describing Leraje/Leraie as a marquis great in power, archer in green, causes battles, putrefies arrow-wounds, brings or sends away lovers, and commands circa thirty legions (placement varies: fourteenth in some Lesser Key listings; thirteenth in Pseudomonarchia summaries).other
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    Johann Weyer / De Plancy renderings (as reported). Summaries noting Weyer/De Plancy attribute to Leraje the power to 'drive away mobs' among other functions (as recorded in the research notes).other
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