tsuwm again calls a useful word wwftd. I'm surprised it is not seen more often. I found
a site with dicussion of "goety" - a word I never saw before.


From: http://www.fotspor.net/pagan/wwwboard/messages/1165.html
A site about Aleister Crowley


Goety - "Magic Involving the Employment of Evil Spirits or Demons; A Sorcerer who Employs Spirits or Demons in Magic."
This word is generally archaic. It was sometimes misspelled "geoty" in a confusion of etymology, were some believed it to be
from "geo" = "earth." In Early Modern English, "goety" was often contrasted against "magia," seen as "white magik." It could
also be seen as opposite of "theurgy." English derives the word from the French "goetie." The word still exists in French, though
it is generally marked "rare" in dictionaries. "Goetie" is also the proper German spelling. As with most words English derives
from French, the word comes from Greek through Latin. The Latin form is "goetia," meaning "black magic." The primary word
in Greek is "goetiea," meaning "witchcraft, jugglery," from "goes," meaning a "sorcerer, wizard" or a "juggler, cheat." Other
Greek forms of the word are "goeteuma" = "a spell or charm," "goeteusis" = "sorcery," "goeteutikos" = "sorceress," "goetiuo" =
"to bewitch, fascinate" and "goetis" = "bewitching, fascinating." The root of all these is generally the idea of "howling" or
"murmering." This can be seen in the related words "goes" = "wailer," "goos" = "weeping, wailing," "goao" = "to groan, weep,"
"gongustes" = "mutter, mumble," and even "goi goi," the sound of pigs grunting.

"Exactly where the word came to mean specifically dealing with evil spirits is either in the French or in English."

tsuwm http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/