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Johann Faust - Höllenzwang (17th c.). [x]

At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical Faust and known by the title Höllenzwang. The library in Weimar owned a manuscript of this text, which Goethe was aware of. The document, which is difficult to date, is written in cabalistic signs and, according to a German gloss, contains a series of magic spells for exorcists.

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“She (Medea) knows incantations and she culls dreadful plants with her enchanted sickle. She works hard to draw the struggling moon down from its path and to bury the horses of the sun in darkness. She reins back waters and brings rivers to a halt in their descent. She transports woods and rocks, as if alive, from their place. She wanders amid tombs, ungirt, her hair in disarray, and gathers the pick of the bones from warm pyres. She places binding spells on people from afar, molds dolls out of wax, and pushes fine needles into their pathetic livers.”

— Ovid heroides, 6: 83-93 (via charlottesarahscrivener)

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“You may, unwittingly, fall in. She is the witch. You know her, yet you do not know her. She has been with you always, yet she eludes you.”

— Erica Jong, Witches, 1981

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Maximilian Pirner - Hekate (1901)

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The moon is immortal, eternal,

Leonora Carrington, from The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington; “Cast Down By Sadness”

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Tied at the wrists by a snake in a field of roses. La lámpara maravillosa. 1916.

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Embalmer’s knife with Anubis figure on the papyrus-shaped handle (“Minmesout”), the embalmer’s name, on the blade (bronze). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC. Now in the Louvre. Photos: Georges Poncet.

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