Grimoires
A general name given to a variety of texts setting out the names of demons, along with instructions for raising them to do the bidding of the magician or 'operator'.
Le Grimoire du Pape Honorius (Rome [Paris], 1760 [1810])
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Grimoire
Generally used to refer to any book of spells, the term is more properly applied to those medieval works such as "The Key of Solomon the King," or "The Sworn Book of Honorius." See Book of Shadows.
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Grimoires
So-called "Black Books" of (usually Goetic) magic, consisting of recipe collections, scrapbooks of magical customs, Who's Who's of the spirit worlds and phone directories for contacting various entities.
Grimoires, especially in magic, offer instructions on the making of talismans. Many talismans were inscribed on precious stones or parchment under auspicious astrological signs.
The Grimoire
The Necronomicon goes some way outside the normal parameters for a grimoire. Although we know very little in detail about its contents, we can deduce some things from the contexts in which Lovecraft mentions it.
This consisted of a series of aphorisms and a magical grimoire which he was working on at the time of his death in 1956. Both these works survive in manuscript.
(Solomonic Grimoires) Cows or Bulls - Lay a hand on the head of the animal, asking forgiveness for some wrongdoing. Then cut its throat and collect the blood.
In the light of the first one it appears to contain the "names of God I", and, actually, they look like corrupted (or original?) forms of the names of God used in the grimoires of kabbalistic magic.
These included an English translation of the Key of Solomon, the most famous of the grimoires ("Grammars") or textbooks of European ritual magic; part of Knorr von Rosenroth's Kabbalah Denodata as The Kabbalah Unveiled, ...
"The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage" is a mediaeval grimoire that is now widely available in an edition translated and edited by S. L. Macgregor Mathers.
The "Arbatel of Magic" appeared at Basle, Switzerland in 1575 in Latin and is one of the lesser known works of the 'grimoire' tradition.
Also known as a grimoire.
Burning Times, The: A witches book of reference where all magickal date, information, times, aspects, formulas and spells are enscribed. One of the most important tools as recorded happenings cannot be forgotten.
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Grimoire for the Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows
Herbal Tarot
The Master Book of Herbalism
Tarot for the Green Witch ...
The diagrams and sigils resemble figures in the Grimoires of black magic more than they resemble orthodox memory diagrams. The magical prayers also arouse suspicion.
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