A source-based history of the Grand Grimoire, also known as the Red Dragon: its disputed dates, Solomonic ancestry, Lucifuge Rofocale, treasure-hunting culture, mass-market print history,…
A source-based history of the Grimorium Verum, tracing its false 1517 title page, early manuscript witnesses, French and Italian print traditions, spirit hierarchy, ritual imagery,…
The manuscript now catalogued as Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 849 is one of the clearest surviving windows into a form of late-medieval learned magic that was…
The Sword of Moses, or Harba de-Moshe, is one of the most important surviving Jewish magical treatises from late antiquity and the early medieval period….
A source-based history of the Chaldean Oracles: what survives of the lost second-century revelation, who the mysterious Julians were, how theurgy differed from ordinary magic,…
دراسة تاريخية موثقة لكتاب Arbatel de magia veterum الصادر في بازل سنة 1575: بنيته ذات الأقوال التسعة والأربعين، مفهوم السحر الروحي، الأرواح الأولمبية السبعة، أخلاقياته…
Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī conducting an astronomical experiment, from Kitab al-Bulhan, MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fol. 34r. Bodleian Libraries; image released under CC BY 4.0 via…
The phurba is often described as a Tibetan “magic dagger,” but its three-sided form belongs to a much deeper ritual language. This source-based guide traces…
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Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh is often advertised as an ancient book dictated by an angel. This source-based history explains its medieval textual layers, 1701 Amsterdam edition,…
Explore the Hygromanteia, a Byzantine Greek Solomonic manuscript tradition: its rituals, diagrams, cultural setting, and relationship to the Key of Solomon.
Explore Maqlû, Babylon’s night-long anti-witchcraft ritual: nine tablets, ritual experts, figurines, fire, purification, Shamash, and dawn.
A source-based guide to the Greek Magical Papyri: their discovery, languages, gods, ritual technologies, sacred names, materials, astrology, divination, healing, protection, and lasting influence on…
