Grimoires

thumb|Icelandic grimoire, "Galdrabók" (), belonging to [[Swedish History Museum (signum: ATA Ämb 2 F16:26)]]

Wiccan book

book by Charles Godfrey Leland

The Hermetica are texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. These texts may vary widely in content and purpose, but by modern convention are usually subdivided into two main categories, the "technical" and "religio-philosophical" Hermetica.

thumb|upright|Page from the about the Ægishjálmur (occult symbol)|Ægishjálmur occult symbol.

book by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Group of 17th, 18th, and 19th century grimoires

thumb|right|This published Cyprianus from 1916 calls itself a "dream and fortunetelling book", and it also promises an astrology|astrological [[almanac from Tycho Brahe.]] Cyprianus is a name given in Scandinavian traditions of folk magic to the "black book" ("Svarteboken"): a grimoire or manuscript collection of spells; and by extension to the magical tradition that these spells form a part of. There is no standard text called "Cyprianus"; it was a general label given to a collection of spells.

18th- or 19th-century grimoire, attributed to Moses; instructs the reader in the spells used to create the miracles portrayed in the Bible, with annexes of Talmudic magic incantations and magical drawings

book on magic

Rauðskinna (English: Red Skin), also known as The Book of Power or as the bible of all wizards, is a legendary book about black magic. alleged to have been buried with Gottskálk the cruel, Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson of Hólar, after he stole it from Chief and wizard Jon from Svalbard. It’s said his grandfather, Thorkell had written. The subject of the book, was to learn to master magic to such a degree as to control Satan. The book has been the subject of legend and folklore and desired by practitioners of galdr. One such legend is when the galdr master Loftur Þorsteinsson (Galdra-Loftur) trie

13th-century magical text misattributed to Apollonius of Tyana

18th-century grimoire

1977 grimoire, the best-known real book named after the fictional Necronomicon