The Black Pullet

An English translation of La Poule Noire, a French grimoire of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century framed as the story of a soldier taught by an old man in the Egyptian desert. It describes twenty-two talismans and magic rings, with their figures and inscriptions, for powers such as invisibility, love and finding treasure, and the creation of the hen that lays golden eggs. A short, popular chapbook grimoire of the French bibliothèque bleue.