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Prague, 27 March 1587. Two English alchemists stand summoned before a bishop of the Church, accused of necromancy, in a city where the Emperor keeps…
In September 1583 a Polish aristocrat slipped out of England after four months of banquets, borrowed money, and conversations with angels.
In the winter of 1770, a tall Scottish traveller stood at a marshy spring in the Ethiopian highlands called Gish Abay and, by his own account, obliged his…
From The Book of Enoch
In the spring of 1587, in a castle town in Bohemia, two Englishmen and their wives signed a document they believed God himself had demanded. The men were Dr.
On the evening of 17 April 1584, in a rented house on Szczepańska Street in Cracow, Edward Kelley stood up in the middle of a session, told John Dee that…
Open a copy of A True and Faithful Relation and the first thing you meet is not Dee's diary but a wall of preliminary matter: a title page promising…
The most famous demons in Western tradition got their names from a filing system.
From The Book of Enoch
On the evening of 3 May 1591, at an inn in the little town of Sobeslav south of Tabor, a tired Englishman lay down for an after-dinner sleep.
Two texts carry the name of Enoch. One is a Jewish pseudepigraphon, composed in segments starting around the third century BCE, quoted in the New Testament,…
From The Book of Enoch
In Room 1 of the British Museum, in the Enlightenment gallery, sits a disc of black volcanic glass a little under twenty centimetres across.