The Book of ceremonial Magic

But Éliphas Lévi affirms that the only authors who have written seriously concerning the
ring of Gyges or its equivalents are Porphyry, Iamblichus and Peter of Apono; that their
discourse is allegorical and that they are referring to the Great Magical Arcanum.
However this may be, the Little Albert supplies an alternative process which it pretends to
derive from these authorities and also from Cornelius Agrippa, sometimes termed the
master of Peter of Apono in defiance of chronology
p. 310
and the centuries. The first requisite is a tuft of hair taken from the head of a hyena, and
from the upper part thereof. These hairs must be plaited into a ring, which must be
carried, like the other, to a pewit's nest and deposited therein, also for the space of nine
days. The perfumes of mercury must be used in like manner. The person who wears this
ring will be invisible and he will reappear by removing it from his finger.
Éliphas Lévi observes that the directions recall the history of the bell of Rodilard, but the
criticism is scarcely commensurate, for the material is certainly obtainable, nor would it
be necessary to catch one's own hyena. The point which was missed by the occultist may
be evident to the ordinary reader; the head of the hyena is short-coated, and the hairs
could not be braided. It is not, however, unreasonable that impossible conditions should
attach to an impossible object. 1
Footnotes
307:1 These names are given as follows by the English editor: Sceaboles, Arbaron, Elohi,
Elimigith, Herenobulcule, Methe, Baluth, Timayal, Villaquiel, Teveni, Yevie, Ferete,
Bacuhaba, Gimarin.
307:2 Possibly that of a mole, used in the consecration of the instruments.
309:1 Compare the Magic Circle of Honorius.
310:1 A process was also provided against fascination and deception by means of the ring
of invisibility. It consists in the composition of a ring similarly shaped, made of refined
lead, and enchased with the eye of a female ferret which has had only one litter. The
words Apparuit Dominus Simoni should be engraved about the circumference. It should
be composed on a Saturday when Saturn is in opposition with Mercury, perfumed three
times with the perfume of Saturday, wrapped in a piece of a winding-sheet, next buried
for nine days in a churchyard, perfumed, when disinterred, as before, and it is then ready
for use.
§ 4. Concerning the Hand of Glory