Faustiana Goetica: A Collection of Related Obscure Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century Germanic Grimoire Texts – Steve Savedow (Hadean)

Description

Savedow expands the grimoire canon by bringing together a cluster of obscure German texts — Herpentil’s Black Magic, Epitome of Supernatural Magic, Magia Ordinis, Almuchabosa: Compendium of Supernatural Black Magic, Tuba Veneris, and Grimorium Mercurium — available together in English for the first time. Each provides a comparatively “no nonsense,” uncomplicated system of spirit evocation or “Goetica,” in the tradition of the Faustian German talismanic Black Books: covering the use of talismans and incantations for evocation, the acquisition of money and treasure, skrying by water-glass, and techniques of necromancy, including obtaining news from the dead.

Rounded out with reference material drawn from 19th-century German magazines and books, dozens of illustrations, a spirit list, and comprehensive manuscript and publication history for each text — a genuine treasure trove revealing an under-explored strand of the grimoire tradition.