Grimoire
Grimoire is a book of witchcraft or paranormal magic. The word is pronounced "grim-warr", which rhymes with "guitar".
The word is a mistaken way of saying grammar. It probably started being used in a time when not many people could read. Then any book might be thought to contain instructions for magic.
In the religion of Wicca and other forms of Neopaganism, such a book is sometimes called a "Book of Shadows".
Grimoire Media
Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity.
An excerpt from Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, featuring magical sigils (or סגולות, seguloth, in Hebrew).
A man inscribed in a pentagram, from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia (Eng., Three Books of Occult Philosophy). The signs on the perimeter are astrological.
The title page of the 1880 New York edition of The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses.
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