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Jasper
Prevents fever and dropsy, strengthens the brain, and promots eloquence; it is a preservative against defluxions, the nightmare, and…
Jean
A magician, votary of Apollonius of Tyana. He went from town to town, wearing an iron collar, and making his living by the performance of…
Jean de Meung
Jean de Meung owes his celebrity to his poetical genius rather than his alchemical powers; to his Roman de la Rose, rather than to his…
Jet
Its virtues are thus described by Pliny, according to the version of Holland : In burning, the perfume thereof. chaseth away serpents, and…
Jettatura
The Italian name for the power of the "evil eye." In order to guard against it magicians say that horns must be worn on the body.
Jinn
Singular Jinnee, plural Jineeyeh, Arabian spirits, perhaps animistic, but more probably strictly mythological like the Persian divs (q.v.)…
Johannites
A mystic sect who follow the tenets of the late Father John of Cronstadt, where they publish an organ, and pursue their propaganda by means…
John of Nottingham
English Magician. (See England.) John XXII., Fope: Jacques Duèse, subsequently Pope John XXII., was born at Cahors in France towards the…
Jesodoth, Jets, Jinnistan & John King
The angel through which Elohim, the source of knowledge, understanding and wisdom, was imparted to the earth. This belief is of Jewish…