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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia

by Ioannis Marathakis · Ioannis Marathakis (trans. & ed.)

The first complete English translation of the Byzantine Greek Hygromanteia, the 'Magical Treatise of Solomon' and the most important ancestor of the Latin Key of Solomon. Marathakis collates the main manuscripts and covers planetary hours, angels and demons of the days, herbs, prayers, the making of tools and divination by water. His introduction explains the text's late antique roots and its line of descent into the European grimoires. Volume eight of the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic.

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