Sitri: The Demon of Desire, Seduction, and Unrestrained Passion

Sitri is a Fallen Angel and the 12th of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. In the Goetic tradition, he is described as a great prince of Hell who commands 60 legions of demons. His power is associated with desire, attraction, sensuality, emotional intensity, and the sudden awakening of passion between men and women.

Sitri is a spirit of seduction and exposure. He does not rule gentle affection or quiet devotion, but the force of desire when it rises suddenly, burns intensely, and strips away restraint. His influence is traditionally said to inflame love and lust, compelling people to feel powerful attraction toward one another.

Appearance of Sitri

Sitri first appears in a strange and fearsome form, with the face of a leopard and the wings of a griffin. This image reflects his untamed and predatory nature. The leopard suggests instinct, beauty, danger, and sensual power. The griffin wings connect him to a more mythic and commanding presence, giving him the aura of a supernatural prince.

After this initial appearance, Sitri may assume the form of a beautiful human. This transformation is central to his nature. He moves between the beast and the beloved, between the terrifying and the desirable, between raw instinct and irresistible beauty.

Sitri’s appearance reveals his deeper mystery: desire often wears two faces. It can be enchanting, magnetic, and pleasurable, but also dangerous, destabilising, and difficult to control.

Powers and Abilities

Sitri is best known for his ability to stir passion between people. He is said to cause men and women to fall in love, become overwhelmed by desire, and abandon modesty or inhibition.

In occult interpretation, Sitri’s power is not merely physical. He represents the force that exposes hidden longing. He reveals what people attempt to conceal beneath manners, social masks, repression, or self-control. Under his influence, attraction becomes difficult to deny.

For this reason, Sitri is often associated with erotic magnetism, seduction, temptation, and the unveiling of secret desires. He belongs to the darker, more dangerous side of love magic, where passion can become obsession if not handled with wisdom.

Sitri and the Nature of Desire

Sitri’s lesson is that desire is powerful, but not always wise. Passion can awaken life, beauty, confidence, and emotional courage. It can bring people together and reveal truths that have been hidden. Yet desire can also cloud judgement, create attachment, and lead people into situations they later regret.

This makes Sitri a demon of intensity rather than harmony. He does not necessarily bring lasting love, loyalty, or emotional peace. His realm is ignition: the spark, the heat, the moment when attraction takes over and ordinary restraint falls away.

Those who study Sitri should understand him symbolically as well as magically. He represents the raw force of appetite, the seductive power of beauty, and the danger of confusing lust with devotion.

Sitri in Demonology

As the 12th Spirit of Solomon, Sitri belongs to the hierarchy of Goetic demons described in ceremonial magical tradition. His rank as prince gives him authority, and his command over 60 legions marks him as a powerful figure within the infernal order.

In demonological study, Sitri is especially important because he shows how love, lust, beauty, and compulsion are treated within the grimoire tradition. Not all spirits of attraction are gentle or benevolent. Some, like Sitri, are fiery, disruptive, and morally complex.

He reminds the student of demonology that desire is one of the oldest forces in magic. It can inspire devotion, obsession, creation, destruction, union, betrayal, and transformation.

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The Mystery of Sitri

Sitri is a demon of beauty, instinct, lust, and revelation. He exposes the hidden force of desire and shows how quickly passion can overturn restraint.

His leopard face and griffin wings reveal the wildness beneath attraction. His beautiful human form reveals the seduction of appearance. His office reveals the dangerous power of love when it becomes fire.

To study Sitri is to study the boundary between attraction and obsession, pleasure and danger, passion and possession. He is not a spirit of calm affection, but of desire unleashed.

Sitri is the flame beneath the skin, the mask of beauty over the beast, and the demon who reminds us that what we desire may also have power over us.

From “The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King” (1904) Written by S.L. MacGregor Mathers

The Twelfth Spirit is Sitri. He is a Great Prince and appeareth at first with a Leopard’s head and the Wings of a Gryphon, but after the command of the Master of the Exorcism he putteth on Human shape, and that very beautiful. He enflameth men with Women’s love, and Women with Men’s love; and causeth them also to show themselves naked if it be desired. He governeth 60 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, to be worn as a Lamen before thee, etc.

From the “Pseudomonarchia Daemonum” ( 1583 ) Written by Johann Weyer (Johann Wier)

Sitri, alias Bitru, is a great prince, appeering with the face of a leopard, and having wings as a griffen: when he taketh humane shape, he is verie beautiful, he inflameth a man with a womans love, and also stirreth up women to love men, being commanded he willinglie deteineth secrets of women, laughing at them and mocking them, to make them luxuriouslie naked, and there obeie him sixtie legions.

Original Text:

Sytry, alias Bitru, magnus Princeps, leopardi facie apparens, habensque alas velut gryphi. Quando autem humanam assumit formam, mire pulcher videtur. Incendit virum mulieris amore, mulierem vicissim alterius desiderio incitat. Jussus secreta libenter detegit feminarum, eas ridens ludificansque, ut se luxuriose nudent. Huic sexaginta legiones obsequuntur.

From the “Dictionnaire Infernal” (edition of 1863 ) Written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy

Original Text:

Sytry ou Bitru, grand prince aux enfers ; il apparaît sous la forme d’un léopard, avec des ailes de griffon. Mais lorsqu’il prend la forme humaine, il est d’une grande beauté. C’est lui qui enflamme les passions. Il découvre, quand on le lui commande, les secrets des femmes, qu’il, tourne; volontiers en ridicule. Soixante-dix légions lui obéissent.

English Translation:
Sytry or Bitru, a great prince of Hell, appears in the form of a leopard with the wings of a griffin. However, when he assumes human form, he is of remarkable beauty. It is he who inflames passions. When commanded, he reveals the secrets of women, which he gladly turns into ridicule. Seventy legions obey him.