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This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.. A grimoire (/ ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /) (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) [citation needed] is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural ...
The Discoverie of Witchcraft and The First Part of Clever and Pleasant Inventions by Jean Prevost, both published in 1584, are considered the seminal works of magic. [3] Scot's volume became an exhaustive encyclopædia of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft, spirits, alchemy, [4] magic, and legerdemain, as well as attracting widespread attention to his scepticism on witchcraft.
The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.
The Sworn Book features the Seal of Solomon and contains ritual elements which are characteristic of the Pseudo-Solomonic corpus of magical literature. [3] Indeed, the so-called "northern European" or "London" version of the Sworn Book uses prayers from the glossed version of the Notory Art ( Ars Notoria ), a medieval treatise on angelic magic ...
The second book is divided further into two parts: the Sanctum Regnum ("Holy Kingdom") and Secrets, de L'Art Magique du Grand Grimoire ("Secrets, of the magic art of the Grand Grimoire"). The Sanctum Regnum contain instructions for making a pact with the demon, allowing one to command the spirit without the tools required by book one, but at ...
"The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic". Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. pp. 167–186. ISBN 978-0-7190-6660-3. Hutchings, John (1989). "Review of The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic". Folklore. Vol. 100, no. 1.
His book Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4, is a lengthy treatise on magic in which he which also presents his own system of Western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including Yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and his own original contributions. It ...
McCown argued that the book was known to Byzantine scholars prior to the 13th century based on Niketas Choniates' reference of a Solomonic book, which allowed sorcerers to summon demons in legions. Marathakis notes that, except for the Magical Treatise , this description also fits the earlier Testament of Solomon , which could be the book that ...