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centuries our era in the Hellenistic of influenced
the Hermetic magic and the Greek magical papyri. The incantations were
mixtures of the folk Latin, Greek and Hebrew
formulae, into which the anonymous authors intertwined the names of
"demons", ancient pagan and now under
new, distorted names.
It is
Grimoires
is The Testament Solomon
to the lSl.3rd century. The derives from the Greek root
"grammatikos" and refers to the term /I grammar", the system of language.
A is therefore a of , a for a magician,
containing formulae, seals and instructions of how to summon chosen
most often "evil", infernal demons. It was believed that even
though God created the world was the supreme ruler of all creatures, it
was actually Satan who held dominion over the its treasures and its
phenomena. A often a or at least a Christian, had
the power to summon the fallen spirits from their infernal abode acting
as a of God. He was an between Hell and
bind and command all both n"!nr,,.,..,
and infernal, if only he was chaste and pious enough to T"�'TO"'''''+
power on the earth. that even demons in Hell had to
God's the magician could force them by divine names and prayers
to do any task for him. And even though it was very difficult to be a
successful and live the life to directions from books of
magic, the popularity of these texts was growing quickly in the Western
The first list demons appeared in the 16th century in Johann
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and later in "'