Maleficium (sorcery)

Maleficium is a term from Latin. It can be translated as wrongdoing or evil doing, or mischief. It was used to refer to dangerous and harmful magic, and to acts of witchcraft.

Maleficium (sorcery) Media

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  The magical circle and triangle, magical objects/symbols used in the evocation of the seventy-two spirits of the Ars Goetia

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  Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity

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  Hecate, the ancient Greek goddess of magic

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  A Sator Square (laid out in the SATOR-format), etched onto a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France

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  A facsimile page of Bald's Leechbook

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  Merlin is said to have been born from the relationship of an incubus with a mortal (illumination from a 13th century French manuscript).

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  A 1613 English pamphlet showing "Witches apprehended, examined and executed"