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Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Clavicula Salomonis
Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell
book) focused on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-
seventeenth century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries
older.[1][2] It is divided into five books, the Ars Goetia, the
Ars Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almandel, and the
Ars Notoria.[1][3]  Ars Goetia[edit]  The most obvious source
for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in
his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware
of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the
Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way
around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the
two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and
one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a
mistake that also occurs in an