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The Book of Forbidden KnowledgeJohnson Smith

Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

The Book of Forbidden Knowledge

Black Magic, Superstition, Charms, and Divination

by Johnson Smith & Co.

A cheap mail-order booklet issued by the American novelty firm Johnson Smith & Co. in the early twentieth century, mixing charms, talismans, fortune-telling, dream lore, mesmerism and old superstitions. It is a popular rather than a scholarly work, and a vivid record of the folk occultism sold to ordinary readers before the First World War and after.

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