Introduction (from the book Fairy Magic in the Grimoires)
The purpose of this book is to teach a little-known area of the grimoires: Fairy Magic. A grimoire is a book of magical instructions which gives methods to conjure angels, demons, fairies, and the dead, as well as cast spells. Examples of these books are the Lesser Key of Solomon, the Grand Grimoire, the Grimorium Verum, The Grimoire of Pope Honorius, the Heptameron, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin, The Book of Oberon, The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet, The Grimoire of Armadel, Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis, The Cambridge Book of Magic, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, the Little Albert, and many more. It might be said that the grimoire age was between 1200 AD and 1900 AD in Europe, with most grimoires being produced between 1400 AD and 1800 AD.
All these books are connected in some way, and many of them share material from one book to the next. For instance, portions of the Heptameron grimoire such as the Hexagram of Solomon have wound up in dozens of other grimoires. Scattered through these books of magic, among the spells, and invocations to angels and demons, are rituals and spells to conjure Fairies.
In many cases, the grimoires are hopelessly complex. I have been studying them for 25 years, and it is all I can do to understand them sometimes. My goal is to introduce the reader to the fairy magic within the grimoires and giveworkable operations which they may carry out if they are so bold.
Fairy magic in the grimoires is somewhat different than might be expected because the grimoires were a mix of Pagan and Christian ideas. Most grimoires have evocations of angels and demons, with summoning the dead and fairies being less common. Today, interest in fairies and fairy magic is very high, but few people know of the fairy magic within the grimoires. It is my purpose in this book to present real fairy magic, which is to some degree a little known and lost tradition, especially in the
form it is found in within the old grimoires.
All the grimoires were written from somewhat of a Christian perspective. While on one hand, the Inquisition and the witch hunters considered the conjuration of fairies to be a serious crime, equal to summoningdemons, the writers of the grimoires themselves were using Christian language to conjure these spirits.
In modern times, when we think of witches in the old days, we think of people who were persecuted by the Christian Church, and rightly so, because they were, yet at the same time, these witches, those who wrote the grimoires, were using Christian conjurations, names of God, angels, saints, etc., to conjure the spirits. That is what witchcraft was in the old days, at least in the grimoire tradition, of which there is thousands of remaining editions of these old manuals of sorcery. It is obvious that there were once hundreds of thousands of people who used the old grimoires, they are a vast tradition. So, if you want to conjure these fairies and spirits listed in the grimoires, you can go at it in one of two ways. You can try to rewrite the rituals and cut all the Christian stuff out of it, or you can do it “by the book.” For the purposes of this book, the materials are traditional, from the “by the book” perspective. I never intended to write this book. I was led into it by the fairies. Guess what? They don’t care if the conjurations are Christian. This is historical magic, its old, and there is deep power running in it.
I have done all sorts of magic, black and white. For me, I am doing it the old way here, black, white, whatever it is, at least these rituals, that’s my decision. It is too complex to change. I feel that it would lose some of its ancient power if I changed it. I made a few slight modifications or adaptations, which I will point out, but still, this is the old
school. If you choose to work these rituals in the
traditional manner, you will do well. Just be respectful, these are living beings, in another dimension, yes, but very much alive. So be careful and watch your step. There are good and evil fairies, that is well known.
A note on the text. Most of the spells in this book are in the public domain if you know where to look. However, there are a couple exceptions. The material from Sloane MS 3851 is also published as “The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet” by David Rankine. I am grateful for his permission to use the material from his printing of Sloane MS 3851 in this book. That would be spells 2, 3, and 9.Also, the material for spells 5 and 6 in this book come from the edition of the grimoire called the Book ofOberon produced by Daniel Harms, Joseph Peterson, and James R Clark. The Book of Oberon is published by Llewellyn Publications. I contacted Daniel Harms andLlewellyn Publications and they were gracious enough to
let me use the Latin translations of the spells 5 and 6 in this book. For that I am eternally grateful.
Now let’s look at a couple of early fairy spells. The
following is an example of what has been called “the table ritual” for the fairies, or “a meal for the fairies.”...
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