Sitri, the great prince of the Goetia, is known as a spirit of love, passion, and desire.
Sitri, also spelled Bitru or Sytry, is one of the seventy-two spirits of the Goetia, a great prince of Hell traditionally associated with love, passion, desire, and attraction. Described in the old grimoires as first appearing with the face of a leopard and the wings of a griffin, and then, at the command of the one who calls, taking on a very beautiful human form, Sitri is said to command sixty legions of spirits and to inflame people with love and desire for one another. Sitri is best known as a spirit of ardent, passionate love, said to kindle burning attraction between people and to draw out love and desire. For these reasons Sitri has become one of the most sought-after spirits in modern love and passion magic, a figure whose name is invoked wherever fiery attraction, desire, and love are longed for.
Here is who Sitri is, the prince's description and rank in the Goetia, Sitri's association with love and desire, the symbolism behind the imagery, and its place in tradition and modern practice.
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Who Sitri is
Sitri is a great prince of Hell and one of the seventy-two demons catalogued in the Goetia, the famous grimoire that lists the spirits said to have been bound by King Solomon. Among these seventy-two, Sitri holds a memorable and alluring place, remembered above all as a spirit of love, passion, and desire. The name appears in the old texts in several forms, Sitri, Bitru, or Sytry, and though the spellings differ, they refer to the same great prince. In the tradition, Sitri is ranked as a prince, one of the noble titles in the infernal hierarchy that the Goetia borrows from the structure of an earthly court, and Sitri is said to command a host of lesser spirits, sixty legions in the traditional accounting. What has always set Sitri apart in the imagination of practitioners is the fiery and passionate nature of the prince's gifts. Where the gentle duke Sallos is remembered for peaceful, harmonious love, Sitri is remembered for ardent, burning passion and desire, the spirit who inflames people with love for one another and kindles hot attraction. The old texts describe Sitri as enflaming men and women with love, drawing out desire and passion, and this fiery, amorous character gives the prince a vivid and compelling place among the seventy-two. To understand Sitri is to understand a spirit of passion itself, a prince whose whole nature is bent toward the kindling of desire, attraction, and burning love. To read more about the wider hierarchy these spirits belong to, see our post on King Solomon and the 72 spirits.
Sitri's description and rank in the Goetia
The Goetia gives Sitri a striking and memorable description, and it is one of the more dramatic transformations in the whole grimoire. Sitri is said to appear at first with the face of a leopard and the wings of a griffin, a fierce and exotic form, and then, when commanded by the one who calls, to put on a very beautiful human shape. This transformation from beast to beauty is central to the prince's imagery and meaning. In rank, Sitri is a great prince, and commands sixty legions of spirits, marking the prince as a spirit of real power and standing within the infernal order. The imagery is rich with meaning. The initial form, the leopard's face, evokes wildness, sensuality, and predatory grace, a beast long associated with beauty, desire, and untamed passion, while the wings of the griffin add nobility, power, and a soaring, majestic quality. That this fierce and sensual first form gives way, at command, to a shape of great human beauty speaks directly to the prince's domain: the transformation of raw, wild passion into beautiful, alluring love, the taming and revealing of desire's beauty. The movement from beast to beautiful human mirrors the movement Sitri is said to work in people, the kindling of wild attraction and its flowering into ardent love. Together these images form a portrait of a spirit of passion and beauty, fierce yet alluring, whose very appearance enacts the theme of desire transformed into beautiful love. It is one of the more sensual and evocative descriptions in the whole of the Goetia, perfectly suited to a prince of love and desire.
Sitri is a spirit of ardent passion, said to kindle burning love and desire.
Sitri, spirit of love and desire
Sitri's entire fame rests on the domain of love and passion, and this is the key to the prince's enduring appeal. The old texts describe Sitri plainly as a spirit who inflames people with love and desire for one another, and this powerful function has made the prince one of the great love-and-passion spirits of the Goetia. Where the gentle duke Sallos is associated with peaceful, harmonious affection, Sitri is associated with the fierier, more passionate side of love, burning attraction, ardent desire, and the kindling of hot, magnetic longing between people. In the tradition, Sitri is a bringer of passion, attraction, and desire, a spirit whose influence stirs the blood and draws people together in ardent love. The prince is also said, in the old accounts, to reveal the secrets of desire, to disclose hidden longings and to cause people to show themselves openly in matters of love. This makes Sitri a spirit especially associated with the passionate, sensual, and desirous dimensions of love, the heat and magnetism of attraction rather than only its gentle warmth. In modern practice, Sitri is sought by those who long to kindle passion, to draw ardent attraction, to reignite desire in a relationship grown cool, or to inflame the love and longing of another. The prince's reputation for stirring hot, magnetic passion has made Sitri one of the most prominent and frequently invoked love-and-desire spirits in the entire Goetic tradition, a favorite among all who long not merely for love but for love's fire. For anyone whose desire is for passion, attraction, and burning love, the prince Sitri has long been the spirit whose name is spoken.
The symbolism of the beast and the beauty
The figure of Sitri carries a symbolism worth drawing out, for it is unusually vivid and expressive. At its heart is the transformation from beast to beauty, the prince who appears first as a fierce leopard-faced, griffin-winged creature and then becomes a being of great human beauty. This transformation is the key to Sitri's whole meaning. It speaks of the nature of passion and desire themselves, wild, primal, and beast-like at their root, yet capable of flowering into beautiful, alluring love. The leopard, with its sensual grace and predatory beauty, is a classic emblem of desire and untamed passion; the griffin's wings lend nobility and soaring power, suggesting that this passion is not base but capable of rising to something majestic; and the beautiful human form that emerges represents desire revealed in its most alluring and captivating shape. Read together, the imagery tells the story of raw attraction transformed into beautiful love, the taming and revealing of passion's beauty. Sitri thus symbolizes the whole arc of ardent love: the wild, magnetic pull of desire and its flowering into beautiful, captivating attraction. There is also a theme of revelation and unveiling in the prince's lore, the disclosing of hidden desire, the showing-forth of what is longed for, which fits the imagery of a beast that reveals its hidden beauty. In all of this, Sitri stands as the very emblem of passionate love, the spirit in whom wild desire and captivating beauty are joined and transformed. It is a strikingly sensual and evocative symbolism, and it explains much of why Sitri is so vividly remembered among the seventy-two.
The name and sources of Sitri
The name of this passionate prince reaches us in several forms, and the variety is itself a window into the long history of the grimoire tradition. In the old texts the spirit appears as Sitri, Bitru, and Sytry, spellings that shifted as the manuscripts were copied, translated, and passed from hand to hand across the centuries. Such variation is common among the seventy-two spirits, whose names traveled through many tongues before settling into the forms we know, and the differing spellings of Sitri are a reminder that the Goetia is not a single fixed book but a living tradition assembled and reassembled over a very long time. Sitri belongs to the family of spirits catalogued in the Goetia, the best known of the grimoires listing the spirits said to have been constrained by King Solomon, which itself forms part of a larger work of ceremonial magic. Within that catalogue, the descriptions of each spirit, their appearance, rank, powers, and the number of legions they command, were set down in a consistent format, and the entry for Sitri follows this pattern, giving the dramatic beast-to-beauty transformation, the princely rank, the sixty legions, and the gift of inflaming love and desire. These grimoire descriptions are the foundation of everything later said about the prince, the root source from which the whole tradition of Sitri flows. Understanding that Sitri comes to us through this chain of manuscripts, copied and recopied, translated and interpreted, helps explain both the consistency of the prince's core character, always a spirit of passion and desire, and the small variations, in spelling and in detail, that appear across different versions. Behind the single memorable figure of the passionate prince lies a rich textual history, and appreciating that history deepens one's sense of the spirit.
Why Sitri is favored in love and passion magic
Of all the reasons Sitri has risen to such prominence in modern practice, the foremost is the prince's vivid reputation as a spirit of passion and desire, and it is worth drawing out why Sitri in particular has become so favored among the several spirits associated with matters of the heart. A number of the seventy-two are linked in some way to love, yet Sitri stands out for the distinctly fiery and passionate character attributed to the prince. Where the gentle duke Sallos is sought for peaceful, harmonious love and reconciliation, Sitri is sought for the hotter, more magnetic side of love, ardent attraction, burning desire, and the kindling of passion. This gives Sitri a particular appeal for those who long not merely for gentle affection but for the fire of love, the heat of desire and the pull of magnetic attraction. The prince's dramatic imagery, the wild leopard-faced creature that becomes a being of great beauty, captures the imagination and perfectly expresses the theme of passion transformed into alluring love, making Sitri one of the more memorable and evocative of all the love-associated spirits. For the modern practitioner drawn to passion, whether seeking to kindle desire, draw ardent attraction, or reignite the fire in a bond grown cool, Sitri therefore offers a uniquely compelling figure: a great prince whose whole nature is the burning heart of love. It is little wonder that in an age of renewed interest in practical spirit-work and love magic, Sitri has become one of the most celebrated names of all, the prince of passion sought by all who long for love's fire.
Sitri in tradition and modern practice
Across the long history of the grimoire tradition and into the present day, Sitri has remained one of the more vivid and frequently discussed of the Goetic spirits, and the prince's passionate reputation has only grown in the modern occult revival. In the classical tradition, Sitri sat among the seventy-two spirits of the Goetia, catalogued and described in the great grimoires that shaped Western ceremonial magic, remembered as the prince who inflames love and desire. In the modern era, as interest in the Goetia and in practical spirit-work has surged, Sitri has become an especially popular figure among those drawn to love and passion magic. The prince's reputation as a kindler of ardent attraction, desire, and love, spoken of in the old texts, has made Sitri a favorite name in contemporary love, passion, and attraction work, and the spirit is frequently written about, discussed, and worked with by modern practitioners seeking to stir passion, draw desire, or reignite the fire in a bond. Sitri is often spoken of together with the other love-associated spirits of the Goetia, distinguished by the particularly passionate, sensual, and fiery character attributed to the prince. Today Sitri stands as one of the most recognizable and evocative love-and-desire spirits of the Goetia, a figure whose dramatic beast-to-beauty imagery, passionate nature, and reputation for kindling ardent love keep the prince firmly in the imagination of all who study the seventy-two spirits and all who long for passion and desire. From the pages of the old grimoires to the modern surge of interest in love magic, Sitri endures as the great prince of passion, the spirit of burning love and desire, sought by all who long for love's fire.
When passion will not seem to kindle
Figures like Sitri have always been tied to one of the most powerful of human longings, the longing for passion and desire, and it is a longing nearly everyone knows, the wish to be desired, to feel the fire of attraction, or to rekindle a passion that has cooled. Studying the lore of a passion spirit like Sitri can be genuinely stirring, focusing the heart and mind on desire and drawing one toward openness and warmth. What knowledge alone cannot always do is kindle a passion that a real obstacle is holding back. If you open your heart, tend to attraction, and do everything you can, yet the same coldness keeps returning and the passion you long for simply will not kindle or will not return, the block is sometimes not a matter of trying harder. An old tie that soured, something sent against the bond, or a heaviness settled over a connection can sit beneath the reach of longing and effort and hold passion away. When that is the case, the block has to be cleared at its root, and once it is gone, your love, your desire, and the natural fire between two people finally have a clear path, so the passion you long for can actually kindle and flow rather than meeting the same coldness each time.
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Reopen the bond →Frequently asked questions
Who is Sitri?
Sitri, also called Bitru or Sytry, is a great prince of the Goetia, one of the seventy-two spirits. The prince is known as a spirit of love, passion, and desire, said to inflame people with love for one another, and appears first as a leopard-faced, griffin-winged creature that becomes a beautiful human form.
What is Sitri the demon of?
Sitri is the prince, or demon, of love, passion, and desire. The old texts describe the spirit as inflaming men and women with love and desire for one another, and in tradition Sitri is associated with kindling ardent attraction and drawing out passion.
What does Sitri look like?
The Goetia describes Sitri as first appearing with the face of a leopard and the wings of a griffin, then taking a very beautiful human form when commanded. The imagery of beast transforming into beauty reflects the prince's nature as a spirit of passion and alluring love.
How is Sitri different from Sallos?
Both are Goetic spirits of love, but they differ in character. Sallos is the gentle duke of peaceful, harmonious love and reconciliation, while Sitri is the prince of ardent passion and desire, associated with fiery attraction and the kindling of hot, magnetic longing.
What rank is Sitri in the Goetia?
Sitri is a great prince, one of the noble ranks of the infernal hierarchy, and commands sixty legions of spirits. This marks the prince as a spirit of considerable power and standing among the seventy-two spirits of the Goetia.
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