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Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252 f.014v
Text page with diagram combining star and crosses, names of archangels and angels
(I got to see this manuscript in real life. It's really cool and has demon summoning stuff in it.)
#medieval#medieval manuscripts#middle ages#medieval core#magic#angel#occult#medieval magic#necromancy
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Medieval Magic is f**king wild
Researching Medieval conceptions of magic online has given me the most ridiculous impression of witchcraft ever.
For the most part its pretty understandable - it boils down to either compelling/commanding spirits or its like fantasy chemistry where you're mixing and matching various substances under specific conditions (star signs and constellations).
But then you get some pretty unhinged lore. One recipe involves feeding a chicken whale eyes until the chicken's eyes are on fire. Then you feed the chicken to a black cat, which you then decapitate to make an ointment from its blood, which allows you to see spirits.
#medieval magic#medieval culture#history#witchcraft#occult manuscripts#clerical necromancy underground
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So you want to be a necromancer - in your next D&D campaign, sure, sure. But what IS necromancy, really? Join us in this episode as we dive into the real sources of medieval necromancy and black magic, and discover ways that real magical practices can fit into your next TTRPG campaign.
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#maniculum#podcast#medieval#medieval magic#magic#necromancy#necromancer#ritual magic#black magic#medieval history#medieval literature#ttrpg#dnd#d&d#dungeons and dragons#demons#demonology
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People Sleep on The Greater Key of Solomon
You can use a lot of the conjurations in that book for so many purposes including binding the spirits of other people to various things. The pentacles are great but that's the tip of the iceberg in that much-ignored manual.
#traditional witchcraft#witchcraft#animism#magick#sorcery#folk magic#spells#astral projection#spirit work#occult#solomonic magic#grimoire magic#grimoire#medieval magic
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WHAT I'M READING:
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Francis Yates
One of the first scholars to show the huge influence in medieval magickal thinking on, um, everything. From the Rosicrucians to John Dee to Isaac Newton etc etc, occult Hermetic thought permeated it all.
I'm a big fan of Yates, author of The Art of Memory, an eye-opening treatise on the lost art of mnemnotechnics. (Remember Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic?)
Creating mental libraries, cabinets of curiosity, is a long lost skill for most of us. Except for those involved in certain styles of meditation, like Ascension work, the creating of inner merkabahs (bodily sacred geometry that creates an engine, or "chariot" in ancient Jewish mystical writing) for Waking Up.
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition is a wonderfully smart, mind expanding book.
I highly recommend it.
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Hi! I'm writing a fic about a Jewish vampire (born in Judeah & currently living in Jerusalem) which takes place during the Crusades. The Crusades themselved are the background of the fic. So I'm wondering if you have any information/resources on how the Jewish population of the Kindom of Jerusalem/Palestine viewed the Crusades and the repeated invasion by either Christians and Muslims during that time. A lot of the information I found is very Christian vs Muslim centric and I'd like to have a Jewish perspective on the conflict.
Oh boy, do I ever. So many, in fact, that I have sorted them into several categories, and hope that at least some will be useful. Nota bene that you will need some kind of academic credentials to access the full text of some/most of these: there are some open-source pdfs and Google books, but yes, academia will be academia, alas. You may also have to do some investigation to pick out tidbits that are most relevant, but:
Jews, the First Crusade, Memories, and Martyrdom
Chazan, Robert. 'The Facticity of Medieval Narrative: A Case Study of the Hebrew First Crusade Narratives', AJS Review 16 (1991), 31-56.
Cohen, Jeremy. Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Shagrir, Iris, and Netta Amir. 'The Persecution of the Jews in the First Crusade: Liturgy, Memory, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture', Speculum 92 (2017), 405-28.
Shepkaru, Shmuel. 'The Preaching of the First Crusade and the Persecutions of the Jews,' Medieval Encounters 18 (2012), 93-135.
Jewish Daily Life in Eleventh/Twelfth-Century Palestine
Bareket, Elinoar. 'Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palestine', War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries (1997), pp. 153-62.
Boehm, Barbara Drake, and Melanie Holcomb. Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016)
Dulska, Anna Katarzyna. 'Abrahamic Coexistence in the Twelfth-Century Middle East? Jews Among Christians and Muslims in a Travel Account by a Navarrese Jew, Benjamin of Tudela', Journal of Beliefs & Values 38 (2017), 257-66.
Gil, Moshe. 'The Jewish Quarters of Jerusalem (AD 638-1099) According to Cairo Geniza Documents and Other Sources', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41 (1982), 261-78.
Shagrir, Iris. 'The Guide of MS Beinecke 481.77 and the Intertwining of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem', Crusades 10 (2016), 11-32.
Talmon-Heller, Daniella, and Miriam Frenkel. 'Religious Innovation under Fatimid Rule: Jewish and Muslim Rites in Eleventh-Century Jerusalem', Medieval Encounters 25 (2019), 203-26.
Medieval Jewish Magic (and Vampires!)
Bohak, Gideon. 'Jewish Magic in the Middle Ages', in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 268-300.
Chajes, Jeffrey Howard. 'Rabbis and Their (In) Famous Magic: Classical Foundations, Medieval and Early Modern Reverberations', Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition (2011), 58-79.
Dan, Peter. 'How Vampires Became Jewish', Studia Hebraica (2009), 417-29.
Epstein, Saul, and Sara Libby Robinson. 'The Soul, Evil Spirits, and the Undead: Vampires, Death, and Burial in Jewish Folklore and Law', Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 1 (2012), 232-51.
Idel, Moishe. 'On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism and Magic', in Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium, ed. Peter Schäfer and Hans Kippenberg (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 195-214.
Matteoni, Francesca. 'The Jew, the Blood and the Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe', Folklore 119 (2008), 182-200.
Patai, Raphael. The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
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Frank Klassen. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. 280 pages.
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"Si vis alias non dormiat: scribe exurgat deus et sepile ante portas vel portam eius et non dormiet.”
[If you want someone not to sleep: write “exurgat deus” and bury [it] before his doors or door and he will not sleep.]
Written in Ashmole manuscript 1435, folio 3v, a predominantly medical text written anonymously for personal use by an anonymous scribe at the end of the 15th century. As translated and cited in Mitchell, Laura Theresa. "Cultural Uses of Magic in Fifteenth-Century England." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2011.
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Going between Medieval Magic and Hungarian Folk Healing is such a trip, its just like:
"In terms of medicine, make sure that the moon is in the first mansion and that she is not in conjunction with saturn, and make sure that she has risen in a humane sign."
But then-
"If the moon is crescent, young people must take their medicine. If the moon is full, those over thirty must take their medicine. If the moon is..."
#magic#folk magic#ritual magic#spirituality#hungarian magic#ethnomedicine#folk healing#folk practice#research#medieval magic
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Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.
#magic#ceremonial magic#magick#grimoire#book of magic#medieval manuscripts#manuscript#paleography#medieval#Ars Notoria#solomonic magic#occult#occultism#magic circle
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someone asked for my interpretations of the characters prismo and scarab wouldve made at the end of fionna and cake,
so here we have Sīdus the Fallen star and The Carmine Cavalier (also regarded as Carma (like karma))
im proud of scarabs character name simply cause cavalier used as an adjective can mean someone who doesnt care for others. also really proud of his sickle thing- its like the mandibles of a beetle but it acts like a guiding weapon rather than attacking, so he can just hook people and completely displace their movements but it can also be used for punching like brass knuckles
#adventure time#fionna and cake#prismo the wishmaster#scarab the god auditor#shoutout to the lotus design on scarabs armor/ bug wings#prismo is a wizard/ magic user who is apparently totally human yup#mostly uses a type of cloud magic to get away#its the dynamic where sidus joke flirts cause thats just how he interacts with people but later on hes just like 'oh shit am i fr rn'#prohibitedwish#medieval fantasy au#the carmine cavalier#Sīdus the Fallen star
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Discover the music of this elf bard with his fantasy folk project Glamourie 🎵
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The Ghost Prince does not, under any circumstances, answer a summoning after it was made aware he existed. None know why he doesn't, some are bitter and hateful of it while others are thankful that it's one less bloodthirsty manic to deal with.
The Ghost King meanwhile hasn't been seen in multiple eons, so the magical community who wanted to use his power just, stopped, trying to summon him for a long time.
Most magic users knew that the Ghost Prince never answered a summons, and that the Ghost King just dropped off the radar.
So could you really blame Constantine for not taking it that seriously when some wannabe hotshot cultists try to summon both of them in the middle of a city to wreak havoc?
He'll give them some credit though. Points for doing it in broad daylight and actually being somewhat of a threat with not relying on just summoning the Ghost royalty and figuring out what to do from there.
The area they were in was somewhat destroyed, then the cultists manage to complete the summoning circle to summon both of them and Constantine, well he just light up a smoke.
It isn't going to work anyways so what does it matter?
...
Is that a fucking Ice cream truck he hears? Who the fuck is driving an Ice cream truck while their city is being under attacked with cultists trying to summon eldritch ghost royalty?
He'll give them some points for dedication, though.
Then he looked at the cultists and nearly had a goddamn heart attack to see that the summoning circle is actually fucking lighting up and working.
The Bat is so gonna give him a headache over this.
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Danny Phantom, crown prince of the Infinite Realms. Does not answer summons.
For one, it is annoying as shit, whenever someone interrupts his day just to ask for infinite power (that he can't give), world domination (that he won't do) or infinite riches (which he also can't do).
It just got annoying being summoned all the time so. One day he just, well, no. And hey, it worked out well enough for him to not continue doing it.
Then he also learned that Pariah Dark is basically the same, after he got out the coffin and stopped trying to take over the world for whatever reason. He was actually a pretty swell guy!
He was just with him too, with him being not so swell at the time for making him go through lessons about Ghost etiquette, rules, stuff that's expected of him as the crown prince.
And don't even get him started on the engagement and marriage proposals.
Overall, he just wanted to find an excuse to leave. Then he felt the familiar suggestive pull of a summoning and, instead of rejection as he usually does in a second. He thought for a bit if he wanted to go with that or crown prince duties.
It was tempting, but dealing with cultists seemed worse than this so he was about to reject.
At least, before he heard an Ice cream truck playing in the background. He doesn't even know how the hell that popped up through the pull but by the gods has it been a while since he's had Ice cream.
So he answers and is gone with a pop.
Pariah Dark just stares for a good second or two, before breathing out and deciding to also answer. Fright Knight is just there, off to side, questioning what he should do now.
Danny wastes no time with the cultists on the other side and in fact, he pushes them out of the way and goes diving for that Ice cream truck he hears. Only to realize he doesn't, have any money on him.
Fuck.
Pariah Dark is less inclined to follow the rules imposed by humans like money, but he does know it can be important. Once in a while. Not that often, but it has its times.
So when he sees his adopted son being sad over being unable to pay for some kind of human delicacy, he digs around in his hair (yes, his hair.) and pulls out some money and puts it on the counter as payment.
The man inside the tiny vehicle had shrieked before getting what they wanted. Which is good. Fear is a good motivator, Pariah thinks.
Unknown to him, it wasn't out of fear (Well, mostly) but because the Ghost King placed down a coin made of pure, solid gold on his counter.
The two then go about their business in the human realm, completely forgetting about the fact that they were summoned here for something.
Constantine is both relieved and about to have an aneurysm at seeing Infinite Realm royalty only answering a summon because of Ice cream.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#pariah dark#john constantine#The Ghost King and Prince are known to not answer summons#both for different reasons#But Danny instantly answers one because he heard an Ice cream truck in the background#Pariah followed because he at first wanted to get Danny back to Crown Prince lessons#Only to be swayed by his puppies eyes and the absolute delicacy that is Ice cream#Pariah Dark is stuck in the medieval times in terms of money#He would literally pull out gold coins and pay for shit that way#He is rich rich#Like basically a neigh infinite supply of gold coins he keeps in his hair#Don't ask him how just ghost logic#They then spent the day going around to Ice cream shops and taste testing them#Poor Fright Knight is left alone wondering what he should do#Word spreads in the magical community about this and everyone tries it out#It does work#But if there isn't actually Ice cream you'll have an angry Ghost Prince to deal with#And an angry Ghost Prince leads to a less than cordial Ghost King
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we're going onto year 2 of this game, playing as a group of peasants who discover magic. shenanigans continue ensuing.
there’s names and some extra character descriptions in the ALT text!
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Eltz - A Mystical Knight's Castle by Thomas Ulrich
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Question: are the excerpts at the beginning of each part of KoS actual texts?
Yes, they are! Thank you for this question, as it allows me to nerd out in detail over medieval magic.
The Key of Solomon and the Lesser Key of Solomon (Legemeton) are two real historical grimoires, the former dating probably from the 14th-15th centuries and the latter from the 17th century. Both of them claimed to be reworkings or translations of much older manuscripts used by the biblical King Solomon, who was traditionally represented as a magician and master of djinn. (This will also be familiar to you if you have read the Bartimaeus trilogy. If you haven't read the Bartimaeus trilogy, READ THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY).
An online version of the Legemeton is available, if you want to explore it. The citation I used for both excerpts is accurate to their catalogue listings in the British Library. Part One is from the BL edition of the Legemeton (British Library, Sloane Ms. 3825, ff. 100–179. Solomon, King of Israel: Clavicle of Solomon, 1572) and Part Two (British Library, Additional Ms. 36674, catalogue entry. The Key of Knowledge: Clavicula Salomonis, c.16th century) is from a commentary text. (I did edit and condense both excerpts slightly for the benefit of modern readers.) The text in the Part One excerpt also mentions:
These Bookes were first found in the Chaldean & hebrew tongues at Hierusalem, by a Jewish Rabbi, & by him put into the greeke Language, & from thence into ye Latine, as it is said &c.
This inspired the character of Nicolò's friend Rabbi Samuel ben Kalonymus, who is a real 12th-century historical figure! (Although I took some minor liberties in placing him in Jerusalem, and therefore afterward sent him back to Speyer.) His golem assistant, Yossele, is also real (at least in terms of being mentioned in texts.) Likewise, the entire cosmology of the Seven Jinn Kings, their names, powers, gems/colors, cities, and so forth, is all based directly on medieval Arabic mythology. Prince Sa'id, Yusuf's ex-lover-turned nemesis, and his father, the Golden One/High King of the Jinn, are also real magical/literary figures, as you can read about on the Jinn Wikia:
This is a powerful and mighty family known for their wisdom, knowledge, and mastery of the occult craft. One of the most famous of [the Golden One's] children and his heir is the prince Sa‘īd Ibn al-Maḏhab (سعيد ابن المذهب).
In other words, TKOS is chock-full of real history, mythology, and magic, plus their associated texts, so yes.
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