Knowledge of the hidden or the paranormal

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A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.

Integrum morborum mysterium, sive medicinæ catholicæ tomi primi tractatus secundus. [Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia ... Hoc est, portionis tertiae pars tertia, de pulsuum scientia ... medicorum ... sive tomi primi tractatus secundi, sectio secunda, de morborum signis ... hoc est, divinatio per urinam.] In sectiones distributus duas : quorum ... / authore Robert Fludd, alias De Fluctibus.

Three books of occult philosophy / Written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim. Translated out of the Latin into the English by J.F[reake].

Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.

Two naked witches riding on a broomstick accompanied by an owl. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.

A lady seeking knowledge of her lover from a wizard. Process print after Sir E. Burne-Jones.

Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.

A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.

Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

A witch at her table being helped by her attendant: they are surrounded by various bottles, mortars and jars. Etching by W. Unger.

Licht und Finsternis : gnostisch-theosophische und freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellschaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert / Karl R.H. Frick.

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Occultism

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Images referencing Occultism

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Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

A witch at her table being helped by her attendant: they are surrounded by various bottles, mortars and jars. Etching by W. Unger.

Licht und Finsternis : gnostisch-theosophische und freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellschaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert / Karl R.H. Frick.

Occultism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Occultism

Works from the collections

Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

A witch at her table being helped by her attendant: they are surrounded by various bottles, mortars and jars. Etching by W. Unger.

Licht und Finsternis : gnostisch-theosophische und freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellschaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert / Karl R.H. Frick.

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