The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic

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For a maid’s thought 541 For love in the day and hour of Venus 541 Against thieves 541 Against thy enemies 541 Against witchcraft 542 For axis or ague 542 For sorrow of the teeth 543 A charm for thndbr… 543 In the event of theft 543 In the event of thefts, proven 544 Experiment for thieves 544 To make one fair 545 For the toothache 546 To make a maiden to dance 546 To make one follow thee 547 For a woman’s love 547 If thou wilt know if she is a maid 547 To make love between men and women 547 If any be angry with thee 547 Also to make thieves to stand as well by night as by day An experiment for thieves 548 For ulcers or p raid es (?) bladder & yard 550 For fretting of the yard or any other part 550 [???] ... a reumen 551 Huius libra Guilielmus Braius professor 551 How to call the king of the pigmies 551 For the Swallow 554 The virtue of vervain 555 Bibliography Index

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The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic

Published on Feb 20, 2015

Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.

Sitting a block away from the U.S. Capitol, the Folger Shakespeare Library holds one of the most unusual manuscripts of magic ever discovered. The book was written around the year 1580, a decade before Shakespeare began writing in earnest. This is a manual of magicians in search of results, who scribbled down whatever secrets they could find. One of the most unusual collections of magical lore ever assembled, The Book of Oberonincludes: Rituals for summoning several different spirits, including Oberon (one of the main characters of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Satan, Mosacus, Birto, and others A ceremony to call Baron, a spirit associated with the notorious Gilles de Rais Several intriguing drawings of spirits and other curious beings A list of spirits similar to, but predating, that found in the magical manual the Goetia Lore and rituals for the summoning of fairies Pages of talismans for various purposes One of the oldest known copies of the

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