Summoning Aratron: A German Magic Roll in the Age of Reason

The article concerns a German magic roll of ca. 1700: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS. Germ. F. (5) R. It was compiled and written chiefly in German, with some Latin and Hebrew, for a gentleman or aristocrat, referenced and portrayed within the roll, to serve both as a textual amulet and prayer...

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Main Author: Skemer, Don C. 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Aries
Year: 2022, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 231-259
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Handwriting (Bodleian Library) Ms. Bodley Germ. F. (5) R / Magical thinking / Occultism
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AE Psychology of religion
AZ New religious movements
CB Christian life; spirituality
CF Christianity and Science
KBB German language area
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B textual amulets
B ritual magic
B Adamic magic
B Christian iconography
B Scribes
B Prayers
B Seven Olympian Spirits
B sigils
B Hebrew names of God
B Paracelsian
B Renaissance
B Medieval
B apotropaic text
B numerology
B Planets
B pseudo-Solomonic
B compilation
B Seals
B rolls (scrolls)
B early modern Germany
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