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Storytime: Reading the Solomonic Hygromanteia, Part III

Page from BL MS Harleianus 5596 (f 33 r.), a section of the Magical Treatise of Solomon showing the magical lamen, kharaktēres au-go-go, and the wax-and-parchment ring to be made by the practitioner

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In our final East-Roman magical book Storytime, we get to the action: our practitioner finishes his magical garments, dons them, and draws a complicated circle on the ground. With his secret apprentice, he steps into the circle and conjures up a host of demons to do his bidding.

After Marathakis 2011, p. 167 (with thanks)

 

After Marathakis 2011, p. 170 (with thanks)