The Book of ceremonial Magic

When you have skinned it, take salt and say over it: God of gods, vouchsafe to bless and
sanctify this salt, so that it may cleanse the parchment which I am about to prepare
therewith, and that both may obtain virtue, power and effect. . . . Salt the
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skin and set it in the sun for fifteen days; next take a pot of glazed clay and write these
characters about it; place a large
piece of quicklime with some blessed water in this vessel, and when the lime is slaked,
steep the skin for the space of nine whole days therein, after which it must be extracted
and scraped with a wooden knife to remove the hair. Let it dry for eight days in the shade,
but when setting it to dry, asperge it and say: In the Name of the Great Eternal God, I
asperge thee. Be thou cleansed from all vice and iniquity! [When dry] perfume it with
sweet-smelling herbs; wrap it in the silken cloth with the other instruments of the Art;
and take notice that if it be seen by a woman in her times, it will lose all its virtue.
But if this kind of parchment be too difficult to prepare, 1 take virgin parchment of any
animal; exorcise it as before; place lighted coal in a new glazed pot; mix good perfumes
therewith; and hold your parchment above the vessel to receive them. Before all,
however, write these characters about the pot 2
with the instruments of the Art. So long as the fumigation goes on, say: Angels of God, be
my help, and by you be my work accomplished! . . . When it is finished, say: LAZAY,
SALMAY, DALMAY, ANEPATON, CENDRION, ANITOR, ENCHEION, 3 Holy
Angels of God, be ye present and
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give virtue to this parchment, so that it may in turn acquire that of all characters with
which it shall be inscribed, by the help of the pious and merciful God. . . . Recite the