Forbidden Rites: A | Necromancerвђ™s Manual Of The ...
Spells intended to create phantasms, such as phantom banquets or castles in the air.
The manual is not a systematic treatise but a "miscellany" or scrapbook of magical practices. Kieckhefer divides the rituals into three primary categories: Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the ...
Procedures used to gain secret knowledge, find missing property, or identify thieves. Historical Significance Spells intended to create phantasms, such as phantom
, authored by Richard Kieckhefer , is an academic study and edition of a unique 15th-century Latin manuscript (Clm 849) found in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The book provides a rare, detailed look into the "clerical underworld" of the Middle Ages, where educated clerics adapted orthodox religious rituals for illicit magical purposes. Core Content and Structure Spells intended to create phantasms