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

Unger, William, 1837-1932.

Magic through the ages : oriental magic

Howard, Rupert.

Date: [1930?]

Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa' (Three works by Livio Agrippa). c.1775

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation

Date: 1720

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa' (Three works by Livio Agrippa). c.1775

Indic Manuscript 327, folio 11a

Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic

Pexicon Company.

Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]

Indic Manuscript 327, folio 8b

Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa' (Three works by Livio Agrippa). c.1775

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Rhinoceros horn cup, China, 1701-1800

Science Museum, London

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Carved wooden statue, male, large rectangular projection, with glass screen containing " medicine" resenous laf also contains magical substances, prepared by medicine man, Mayombe (?), Congo, 1890-1910. Front three quarter view. Black background.

Science Museum, London

Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.

Date: 1720

Sixty centuries of health and physick.

Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. Combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Dr Henry Oakeley

Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa' (Three works by Livio Agrippa). c.1775

Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon

Dissertatio medica de consensu partium ...

Triller, Johann Moritz, active 1686-1701.

Date: [1686]

Magic and healing

Thompson, C. J. S. 1862-1943.

Date: [1947]

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