Picatrix

The Picatrix just smelled like a pile of legal documents, which I thought was a little disappointing!

The Smell of the Weird: Sniffing Books 2010

Picatrix (the Latin version of a medieval Arabic book of magic), and more respectable medieval philosophers like Alkindi,

Loss of Faith 2009

Unlike Ficino, Agrippa did not avoid references to medieval works involving conjuration and power over the world, such as the Arabic text known in Latin as Picatrix.

Loss of Faith 2009

Artefius, Costaben Luca, Picatrix, &c. that such cures may be done.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

My most expensive book purchases are: Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, a really bad translation of Picatrix Vol 1, and the first volume of the History of William the Marshal.

15 things about me and books zornhau 2005

(Tolette), that same reverend father in the devil, Picatrix, rector of the diabological faculty, was wont to tell us that the devils did naturally fear the bright glancing of swords as much as the splendour and light of the sun.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

(Tolette), that same reverend father in the devil, Picatrix, rector of the diabological faculty, was wont to tell us that the devils did naturally fear the bright glancing of swords as much as the splendour and light of the sun.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

That fear, of course, persists among the common people, who turn to magic practices and rely on images and formulas such as the ones prescribed by the author of Picatrix or by Cornelius Agrippa to protect themselves against baleful influences.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

Picatrix, so well known in the West, is a translation of the Aim of the Wise of al-Majrīṭī, the Andalusian scientist and alchemist of the fourth (tenth) century, or his school.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

When I was a student ... that same Rev. Picatrix ... was wont to tell us that devils did naturally fear the bright flashes of swords as much as he feared the splendor of the sun.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853