grimoire

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This famous 16-17th century grimoire was compiled from earlier texts.

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  • My grimoire was mostly full of practical spells: rituals designed to bring in money (really handy around scholarship time, let me tell you), to aid memory (exam time), to get your enemies off your back (handy with some of the TA's), stuff like that. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • He had come across no grimoire which even hinted of such a fate. —  And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ru
  • I mentally nudged Osk Rievor, who was mulling some abstract point of wizardry, gleaned from an all-night poring over a recently acquired grimoire, and asked for his insight. —  FSFMagazine,June2007
  • This famous 16-17th century grimoire was compiled from earlier texts. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • I have instead been compiling my own grimoire, or magical journal if you don't think you're up to creating something quite so fancy. —  Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week
 

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