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Salomonic Magical Arts ~ Swedish Book of the Black Art
CAD $135.00
Salomonic Magical Arts consists of two combined volumes, originally written in the early 18th century. Named The Red Book and The Black Book by one of their owners, they passed through the hands of priests and cunning men before coming to rest in academic institutions. Invoking a variety of spiritual powers ranging from Christ to Beelzebub, its magical formulae, numbering in excess of 450 individual receipts, serve as a testament to the endurance of sorcery in the early modern era. First published in Swedish in 1918, Salomonic Magic Arts is presented here in English for the first time. It includes Swedish cunning-folk traditions (trolldom) the European grimoire tradition, traditional magical healing, pagan belief, and the relationship between folk magic and the church.
Amid the great genres of European magical books are the Scandinavian Svartkonstböcker or ‘Books of Black Arts’. The privately-kept practical manuals of magic used by rural charmers and practitioners of folk magic. Incorporating charms, prayers, and curses, as well as medicine, alchemy and physical experiments. Many of these books survive today in universities and private collections. While bearing some relationship to the corpus of European grimoires which feature angelic and demonic magic. The Svartkonstböcker as texts of magic are in a class all their own.
Octavo, 280 pages, illustrated throughout with sigils and rare photographs. The sigils and magical seals were drawn by Maria Olsson after the original source documents
Three Hands Press ✢ Limited hardcover bound in full black cloth with dust jacket. Limited to 1200 copies
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Dimensions | 23 × 15 × 5 cm |
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Salomonic Magical Arts consists of two combined volumes, originally written in the early 18th century. Named The Red Book and The Black Book by one of their owners, they passed through the hands of priests and cunning men before coming to rest in academic institutions. Invoking a variety of spiritual powers ranging from Christ to Beelzebub, its magical formulae, numbering in excess of 450 individual receipts, serve as a testament to the endurance of sorcery in the early modern era. First published in Swedish in 1918, Salomonic Magic Arts is presented here in English for the first time. It includes Swedish cunning-folk traditions (trolldom) the European grimoire tradition, traditional magical healing, pagan belief, and the relationship between folk magic and the church.
Amid the great genres of European magical books are the Scandinavian Svartkonstböcker or ‘Books of Black Arts’. The privately-kept practical manuals of magic used by rural charmers and practitioners of folk magic. Incorporating charms, prayers, and curses, as well as medicine, alchemy and physical experiments. Many of these books survive today in universities and private collections. While bearing some relationship to the corpus of European grimoires which feature angelic and demonic magic. The Svartkonstböcker as texts of magic are in a class all their own.
Octavo, 280 pages, illustrated throughout with sigils and rare photographs. The sigils and magical seals were drawn by Maria Olsson after the original source documents
Three Hands Press ✢ Limited hardcover bound in full black cloth with dust jacket. Limited to 1200 copies
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