grimoires

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The ceremony included the recitation of certain passages borrowed from popular grimoires, the object in view being the wholesale liberation of Spirits wandering in the immediate neighbourhood of their bodies.

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  • However, perhaps conveniently, despite the centuries of coded grimoires and obscure texts produced by enlightened philosophers, no one really knows exactly what The Great Work actually is. —  Mania News Feed
  • Moorcock's portrayal of magic is exactly the way I like it-powerful and capricious, accessed through great grimoires capable of summoning great powers of darkness, but also prone to turn on the caster in unpredictable ways. —  SFFaudio
  • Unless you got hit by a car and sent into a 2-year coma, or losing all your memories in a battle with a walking library of over 100 magical grimoires. —  Anime Nano!
  • She says she carries the 103,000 grimoires with her, that she has magical abilities, and evil magic users are after her. —  Anime Nano!
  • The ceremony included the recitation of certain passages borrowed from popular grimoires, the object in view being the wholesale liberation of Spirits wandering in the immediate neighbourhood of their bodies. —  Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
 

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