Goes (pronounced Go-ees) is Ancient Greek for “sorcerer”. A Goes practices a type of Ancient Greek sorcery, which frequently uses barbaric names of evocation, called Goetia. The name probably means something like howling. Possibly the calling of spirits, maybe the sound of connecting to the inner animal, or maybe the howlings of demons in Tartarus. A 17th-century grimoire called the Lemegeton contained a chapter called Ars Goetia or the Art of Goetia contained a list of 72 demons and how to summon them. In 1904 it was translated as the Goetia. Due to popularity, the term Goetia has come to mean the summoning of demons rather than Greek Sorcery. Also, Goetic which used to mean “of or relating to Greek Sorcery” has come to mean one of the 72 demons found in the Ars Goetia chapter of the Lemegeton, “a Goetic”. The Lemetegon is also commonly called The Lesser Key of Solomon.
