Faustiana Goetica

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In Faustiana Goetica: A Collection of Related Obscure Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century Germanic Grimoire Texts, Steve Savedow expands the corpus of important texts by bringing together obscure sixteenth-eighteenth century German grimoires, making them available together in English for the first time. The material includes Herpentil's Black Magic, Epitome of Supernatural Magic, Magia Ordinis, Almuchabosa: Compendium of Supernatural Black Magic, Tuba Veneris, and Grimorium Mercurium.

The texts presented in this volume each provide a basic, ‘no nonsense’, uncomplicated system of spirit evocation or ‘Goetica’, that can be described and categorized as being in the nature of [Faustian] German talismanic ‘Black Books’ of magic. These books include specific material on using talismans and incantations to perform acts of spirit evocation, the acquisition of money or gold/treasure, skrying by the use of a glass of water, and some interesting techniques of necromancy including how to get news from the dead.

Including reference material from nineteenth century German magazines and books, dozens of illustrations, spirit list, comprehensive manuscript and published work details of the texts and much more, Faustiana Goetica is a treasure trove which reveals a significant area of development in the grimoire tradition. Includes a foreword by Alexander Cummins, and images of Faustian sigils and seals.

Contents:

Abbreviations
Foreword by Alexander Cummins
A Note Regarding the Influence of Faust
Introduction
Some details and references on the books presented here
Herpentil’s Black Magic (Horst, 1821)
Black Magic of Herpentil (Saltzburg, 1505)
Comments From Zauber Bibliothek, Vol. 1 (Horst, 1821)
Epitome of Supernatural Magic (Herpentil, Scheible, 1846, 1519)
Magia Ordinis (Kornreuther, 1495?/1515/1750)
Serapeum Magazine (Naumann/Gessert, Munich, 1844, 1555)
Almuchabosa: Compendium of Supernatural Black Magic (Scot, 1555)
Tuba Veneris (attributed to John Dee, 1580)
Grimorium Mercurium (attributed to John Dee, 1599, 1786)
Appendix A - Spirit Names in the various texts
Appendix B - Spirit Names in the Grimorium Mercurium
Appendix C - Extracts From Libellus St Gertrudis and Herpentil Salomonis
Appendix D - Some text editions of grimoire related books attributed to Faust, in English
Bibliography

Faustiana Goetica: A Collection of Related Obscure Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century Germanic Grimoire Texts
Translated from the German/Latin, edited with footnotes, appendixes, and new introduction by Steve Savedow
978-1-915933-57-7    (HB)
978-1-915933-58-4    (PB)
138 pages approx.