An Encyclopaedia of Occultism

From Abracadabra to the Zohar: the classic 1920 reference to every occult science, seance trick, demon, alchemist and secret society — 2,000+ entries, all here.

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Talmud

"Whoever has the telphillin bound to his head and arm, and the tsitsith thrown over his garments, and the mezuza fixed on his…

Darkness of the Sages

(See Philosopher's Stone.) D'Ars, Cure : ( See France.) Davenport Brothers (Ian and William) : Two American mediums who gave…

Fey

To possess second sight. (See Teutons.) Fiction, English Occult: English literature, as it is known to-day, really begins with…

Double Triangle

(See Magic.) D'Ourches, Comte: French magnetist and necromancer, associated about 1850 with Baron de Guldenstubbé in the K…

Boreal Virtue

(See Fludd.) Borri, Josephe-François: An alchemistical imposter of the seventeenth century, born at Milan, in 1627. In youth his…

Arabs

The heyday of occultism among the Arab race was reached at the epoch when that division of them known as the Moors established…

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