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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

Forbidden Rites

A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

by Richard Kieckhefer

Richard Kieckhefer edits and analyzes a fifteenth-century Latin necromantic manuscript held in Munich, containing rites for conjuring spirits, invoking illusions and other magical aims. He provides the Latin text, translated excerpts and extensive commentary placing the manual within the clerical underworld that produced such works. The book is a significant source for understanding late medieval ritual magic and its practitioners.

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