Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, we explore the history of grimoires, manuals of magic, that shaped magical practices from ancient Egypt to modern witchcraft. Discover how these spellbooks and magical textbooks held esoteric knowledge and influenced occult traditions for centuries.

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00:00 Intro and Basics
1:56 Grimoires as Elite Texts
6:31 The Magic of Writing
11:12 The Democratization of Grimoires and Contemporary Witchcraft
16:25 The Dematerialization of the Grimoire