Hadean’s offering on this feast day is three new Cyprian texts from three different regions – three new ways to engage with the Saint and hi
Oh look! Just what my budget needs — more books to buy 🤪😂🫠
From Iberia we have the Cypriani Magici Septem Horae Magicae, a long-lost Book of Saint Cyprian, rumored to have existed but frustratingly lost to the mists of time – until it wasn’t. From Scandinavia we have Cyprianus: St. Cyprian and the Black Book in Scandinavian Folklore, a translation of Danish legends relating to the Cyprianus which broadens our understanding of the cultural and folk-magical context of this fabled grimoire. From Byzantium we have The Greek Prayer of St. Cyprian: A Medieval Phylactery, an apotropaic prayer in which pagan sorcery and Christian exorcism meet.
