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Welcome to /r/Grimoires! A community for the discussion, study and application of grimoires and spell books.

Welcome to /r/Grimoires. A community for the discussion, study and application of grimoires and spell books.

What is a grimoire?

By the most basic definition a grimoire is a spell book, or text book of magic and/or the occult. The word grimoire comes from French, and developed sometime around the mid to late 1700's. For the purposes of this sub a grimoire is any instructional or informational text concerning magic, witchcraft, occultism or mystery religions, magical objects, magical creatures or entities, the performance or creation of rituals, devotions, spells, charms and/or curses.

Though the term grimoire was popularized during the 18th century, texts which may carry that label date back to ancient times, and include some of the first pieces of literature, going back to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Grimoires are often associated with Occult, Paganism and Witchcraft, but there are grimoires from many cultures, both Modern, Classic and Ancient, Western and Eastern, New World and Old World, Christian and Secular (and all are welcome here).

Things to post

  • Discussions, insights, questions about the grimoires you are reading are always welcome.

  • Information about creating grimoires. Videos, blogs and articles about calligraphy, illumination, book binding.

  • You are also welcome to share you personal Grimoire, Book of Shadows, Book of Mirrors (etc.).

  • Resources are always welcome, occult reading lists, links to .pdf copies of known grimoires etc.

...Keep in mind that this is a new sub, so we are relativity relaxed while we find our niche, so feel free to contribute anything that you think might be to be relevant to r/grimoires.

Resources

  • The Hermetically Open Project – in 2016 Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) made a sizable donation to the Ritman Library to have 4,600 occultist texts and Grimoires digitized and made publicly available. In early 2018 this collection started becoming available through the Ritman Library's portal Embassy of the Free Mind.

  • Sacred Texts is an internet archive of religious, and spiritual texts, the bulk of which are in the public domain. It is a great place to go for modern translations and the more well known or wildly published grimoires.

  • The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a collection of over 3'000 texts and manuscripts on witchcraft, open to the public. Over 100 of which is available through digital download.


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Do you have any information about the texts of the book "Anecdota atheniensia"?

I am collecting every spell I can find written originally in Greek. During my search I came across this book:
https://archive.org/details/MN40020ucmf_0/mode/2up
It was published in 1927, in two tomes and it is written in French. It supposedly consists of previously unpublished texts about magic that the author was able to find in Athenian libraries of the time. Its format is simple, a description of the text, information about the library that housed it and some estimations about it (since I don't speak French this is what I got from google translate, it could contain more info), then the original text written in Greek with partial reconstructions where parts of words were damaged and no translation. Then the same format follows for the next text.

I was able to trace the contents of the second tome, they are mostly medical and astronomical texts written during the Byzantine era. My problem is with the first tome. I could identify the testament of Solomon and the treatise of Solomon but the rest of the texts are unknown to me. Does anyone know what they are? Are they translations of other texts? I might be wrong but this book seems to be the only place some of these texts exist online.

I speak contemporary Greek so I can translate parts of them if you want more info but I am no expert. If it helps the texts include, lists of angels, methods of summoning demons, divination using numbers and letters, explanations of dreams and instructions of reading hands, among other things. The texts range from the late antiquity to the 18th century (according to the estimations of the French info).

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2024/11/23
13:29 UTC

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Does any one have any info on this or can find an English translation?

Looks and feels pretty old and is dated 1652 at the bottom but I’m pretty sure it’s a re print. Wikipedia says something about “The treasure of the Old Man of the Pyramids. Has different symbols and illustrations on a couple pages.

3 Comments
2024/11/19
23:27 UTC

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Are there any grimoires where I can use it to defeat enemies?

Basically I'm looking for a grimoire that can be used to defeat unknown enemies uttering just a word, or a simple phrase, please help I'm being victim of black magic.

2 Comments
2024/11/09
01:19 UTC

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Looking for best (both expansive and unknown/rare) online digital repositories for folk magic grimoires, magic books, runic alphabets, etc. which includes personal family folk magic books, etc. that predate the 1830's

Examples: This PDF lists a ton of awesome and beautiful magic books, grimoires, runic alphabets, ciphers, etc. online at the Icelandic university.

https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/28823/8/MA%20Thesis%20-CryptographicCorpusFINALJason%20%281%29.pdf

Example of one such tome: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/JS08-0395/401?iabr=on#page/180v/mode/2up

Another: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs04-2334/403?iabr=on#page/200v/mode/2up

I'm familiar with The Magus. I know of Kirchner's magic alphabets, etc.

Reason?

I am studying a specific document from the early 1830's New England/New York that is written in borrowed characters and symbols but not one source. It appears to be one character from one alphabet and one from another, etc. which leads me to believe there was most likely a family grimoire or magic book (like the one linked above) that was copied from a copy, etc.

I'm just not as adept and finding these online collections (chanced upon the Icelandic ones above) and so any assistance one may provide would be helpful.

I know it's possible the NYPL has some as well as various universities both in the US and Canada, etc. but as I said, I'm looking for any guidance.

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2024/10/24
23:55 UTC

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Any recommendation on divination books

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2024/10/21
17:44 UTC

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In the lesser key of solomon, why is there a picture of a snake coiling 2 and a half times around a circle containing 4 hexagrams?

I don't understand the symbolism, particularly of the meaning of 2 and a half coils of the snake.

6 Comments
2024/10/21
13:21 UTC

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I made a digital grimoire notion template! Link in comments

4 Comments
2024/09/23
02:36 UTC

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I found this in the street, what kind of spell is this?

It was folded and it's a copper sheet.

2 Comments
2024/09/18
04:31 UTC

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2024/09/17
19:47 UTC

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Medieval Christian theurgical grimoire recommendations?

I am looking to get into medieval Christian theurgy but don't quite know where to start as finding information about the practice has been difficult. Does anyone know of any medieval European grimoires that I could work with?

5 Comments
2024/09/05
01:47 UTC

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Old manuscript written with gold.

The book has a ring embedded with red liquid and a stone like thing with the a red liquid as well. How much to you think i can sell it for and where?

2 Comments
2024/09/03
16:57 UTC

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Book of Saint Cyprian vs Grimoire of pope Honorious

Hi everyone.

Im a novice here, I want to start studying this kind of books about magic which mixes Christianity and Witchcraft. I have come across both this books, now I have only readed the Ciprianillo, but i would like to know how similar it is to the grimoire of Pope Honorious. How do these books compare one another, what are the differences, etc etc, and how to approach the study of these grimoires

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2024/08/31
22:12 UTC

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Grimoires

Hello I want to start using spells and grimoires now in my life and have always been very interested in spells. Can anyone point me in right direction of a good grimoire or chat to me on messenger about getting into this x

8 Comments
2024/08/29
20:39 UTC

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Practical spells

I would like some grimoires with practical spells I could use in the mordern day and age and preferbly the grimoire should have a wide variety of spells and unlike some grimoires which base their spells upon one thing for example the book pure magic while not all it did base majority of its spells around the poppet.

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2024/07/17
10:43 UTC

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Encyclopedia of 5000 spells

I am new to magic and want to know if the encyclopedia of 5000 spell's spells actually work or is just to learn the basics

9 Comments
2024/07/16
14:02 UTC

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Help

I’m looking to begin studying magic in general, any tips on common books I would be able to acquire to learning the basics of it all?

9 Comments
2024/07/16
08:17 UTC

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What do you do when you finish/run out of room in your Grimoire/Book of Shadows/Book of Mirrors?

Do you start where you left off in your finished Grimoire (even if it’s literally in the middle of a subject) or do you start a new one but copy over some of the informtion from your finished book? I am trying to figure out if I should just start a new book where I left off in the old or if I should copy over info from the old so that it “flows”. Thank you for the advice.

10 Comments
2024/06/17
17:06 UTC

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In search of strong Grimoire

Hello all! I am in the middle of searching for an extremely powerful Grimoire. I need it to bring about very very strong things. I figured there was no better place than here! Very important, thank you all!! Any kind works but I am hoping to communicate with beings and deal with them. Thank you all.

22 Comments
2024/06/16
05:26 UTC

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Searching For Satanism - The Bad News Part 2 (Grimoires)

If you like a bit of a deep dive into grimoire history, you may like this. I talk about b bibliotheque bleue grimoires as well as the history of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Lesser Key of Solomon and on into the 20th century.

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2024/06/13
05:31 UTC

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Book of Mirrors

Hi all.

So I head of “Book of Mirrors” for the first time and I cannot seem to find much information about the subject or examples. Can someone please explain how a “Book of mirrors” works and some picture examples if you have one and don’t mind sharing for someone just learning about it? Thanks so much.

2 Comments
2024/06/13
01:37 UTC

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Searching For Satanism - The Bad News Pt 1 (Grimoires)

Hey guys, I have just released a video where I go over many old occult books. There will be a part 2 to this so I hope you guys enjoy!

0 Comments
2024/05/31
05:01 UTC

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Page 3 of my Dionysian Grimoire

The great liberator

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2024/05/22
06:30 UTC

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Pages from an incomplete tome still in the works.

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2024/05/21
18:37 UTC

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Writing Scripts (cursive versions)

Hi,

I have my eye on a couple of amazing looking journals to be my Grimoire for a collection of my work and research to be put in, a passion project as I want to make it look really good with calligraphy and drawings.

Anyhow,

I really like the idea (still an idea mind) to use a script, I know it won't be Theban, mainly as it's very well known. But I have others I am contemplating.

(I say it's an idea in mind because as much as I love the idea of the Grimoire being fully in scripts, main, one for spells, runes, and alchemy symbols [I said it was a passion project XD but I also recognise it's going to take time, esp. not to make errors, I understand that no matter how well I memorise, it could take me time to translate what I wrote, reducing the efficiency.)

So to the actual point (professional rambler), I love the ones I've found, but I actually am interested in having at least one that's cursive friendly. Like the Theban alphabet I've failed to join them up, and I get it, practically, they look more like runes/ sigils, but does anyone know of alphabets that can be learnt to be cursive with examples, or how to potentially learn to make any cipher alphabet script to be cursive with a how-to guide & tips? I'd like to continue practicing before I can finally afford my Grimoire, to help be a step ahead skills wise.

I tend to generally write far more with cursive and it feels far more fluid and natural than just putting down each symbol without any linking, and for me it just looks really pleasing, and helps me get in the zone when I'm writing my notes. It feels faster to use cursive too, than writing letters out individually.

Thank you for reading (what surely could have been written more concisely.) ✨

0 Comments
2024/05/21
01:55 UTC

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