Captain Obvious Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: "real" Magic resources IIRC' date=' Crowley, aka The Wickedest Man Alive, was the one who really pushed for "magic with a K" as Will Working, not to be confused with the "no-K magic" with the handkerchiefs and cards and coins and whatnot. I'm [i']certainly[/i] not saying he was the first to spell it that way, but before him the "k" was used for one of two reasons; referencing an old text, or actually being an old text. Do recall, this word comes from the Olde language, before they invented spelling. Yu are korect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: "real" Magic resources Do recall' date=' this word comes from the Olde language, before they invented spelling. [/quote'] Little Lord Fauntleroy references I was not expecting.....I should probably rep you for surprising me. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary hasn't surprised me yet today, but then I've just had breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: "real" Magic resources Here are a few excerpts from Authentic Thaumaturgy: Introduction Good and Evil Magic The Laws of Magic Mono-, Duo- & Polytheisms Sacrifices And some Reviews. Nice find! Thanks QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Voynich manuscript: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript You can download the PDF Here: http://www.archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript Since no one understands it you can use it however you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources I still can't parse the uses of the words "real" and "magic". It concerns overriding the implicit variable typing, otherwise "magic" would be automatically defined integer. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Thread necromancy is a ritual I've never seen covered in a book. And the Voynich Manuscript is not a grimoire or spellbook of any kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Thread necromancy is a ritual I've never seen covered in a book. And the Voynich Manuscript is not a grimoire or spellbook of any kind. Are you sure? The last I heard, no one knew what the writing said, although it did seem to be actual writing, not some random gibberish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barwickian Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Since thread necromancy seems effective... Richard Kieckhefer - Magic in the Middle Ages Claire Fanger - Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic Elizabeth M. Butler - Ritual Magic These are all readable. Kieckhefer's the most scholarly. Good luck sorting through all the New Age codswallop on the hunt for this sort of material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darbor Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Not magic exactly but here is a text on Sixteenth Century Metallurgy which wasn't so far off from Alchemy. The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources Little Lord Fauntleroy references I was not expecting.....I should probably rep you for surprising me. Sadly, I didn't see this for three and a half years. And even more sadly, I wasn't referencing Little Lord Fauntleroy, but Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens, specifically Anathema Device, who mentions that her ancestress' book of predictions (all 100% accurate, if a tad... focused) was written in Old, before they invented spelling. It's possible that either Gaiman or Pratchett knew the origin, but I was merely being a fanboy. And while the Voynich Manuscript may not be "magical", it is sufficiently weird enough to play it in Peoria. I'd totally believe it was a grimoire, or at least a herbary from some other world, possibly Faerie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StGrimblefig Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources I have always liked the following interpretation of the Voynich: xkcd, but it could lead to recursion if used in-game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Re: "real" Magic resources My favorite explanation of the VM is that it's a faux manuscript supposed to come from Bacon's New Atlantis. Sadly, it's been more or less debunked, but I hold out hope that somehow it turns out the VM is a newer work written in an older manuscript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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