From Blue And Red Light: Or, Light And Its Rays As Medicine; Showing That Light Is The Original And

Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775

Pages from the oldest known Norwegian svartebok ("black book") manuscript. Vinjeboka, c.1480-1520, Ms.8° 1059, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Norway.

Carl Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Volume 8)

This Icelandic manuscript of magic, known as the “Huld” manuscript, presumably derives its name from the word “hulda” meaning secrecy, and was compiled from three older sources by Geir Vigfússon in 1860. These ten selected pages from the manuscript feature “stafir,” or what we might call sigils today.

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Folk figures, Lucie on the left, Barbora on the right (From the Ethnographic Museum in Prague)

Petitot 1771

Guido von List, Armanen Runes, 1902

“The Armanen runes, or Armanen ‘Futharkh’ as Guido von List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based in shape (though not necessarily name, let alone interpretation) on the Younger Futhark. They were "revealed to” the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902, and subsequently published by him.“

Bernard Baars, In the Theater of Consciousness