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Kodoku (蠱毒, 'curse poison'), also called kodō (蠱道, 'curse method'), kojutsu (蠱術, 'curse technique'), and fuko (巫蠱, 'sorcery curse') is a type of poisonous magic found in Japanese folklore. It is the Japanese derivative of the Chinese gu magic. It is said to have been widely used in ancient China.
Sorcery came to be associated with the Old Testament figure of Solomon; various grimoires, or books outlining magical practices, were written that claimed to have been written by Solomon. [70] One well-known goetic grimoire is the Ars Goetia , included in the 16th-century text known as The Lesser Key of Solomon , [ 2 ] which was likely compiled ...
[24] For instance, in one charm, a curse is placed upon an individual, and their punishment is compared to various other events: May you be consumed as coal upon the hearth, may you shrink as dung upon a wall, and may you dry up as water in a pail. May you become as small as a linseed grain, and much smaller than the hipbone of an itchmite,
The first known appearance of "black magic" in English is Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene, where he anglicizes the contemporary term "nigromancy", derived from Latin nigromantia, a medieval variant of necromantia "necromancy" influenced by Latin niger "black" [5].
As most surviving sources concern love between men and women, there is a strong heterosexual bias when discussing these sources, though there are a few examples known to concern love between both two men and two women, such as Greek curse tablets. Love magic motifs appear in literature and art and in the mythologies of many cultures.
Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press. ISBN 9780893011277. LCCN 89020493. Wogan, P. (2018). Magical Writing In Salasaca: Literacy And Power In Highland Ecuador. New York City: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0813341514
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A complete history of magik, sorcery, and wi Wellcome L0026620. The Anglo-Saxon metrical charms; Thoth's Tarot Card deck by Aleister Crowley; The Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Gaelic oral poetry, much of it charms; The Atharvaveda, a collection of charms, and the Rigveda, a collection of hymns or incantations; Hittite ritual texts; The ...