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Grimoire is the same kind of change, but in French and borrowed from French.
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Only three copies of this occult grimoire are said to exist.
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It bristles with cybernetic interventions, from active lane-keeping and side-object avoidance to drowsiness alert-everything in Mercedes's grimoire.
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The grimoire details the different hosts of hell and their powers, describing how to enter a pact with them to attain the magicians'goals.
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He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness.
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Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore.
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The former appears in the title of the Lesser Key of Solomon, a grimoire whose framing tale is Solomon capturing demons using his ring, and forcing them to explain themselves to him.
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  • A manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons)
  • A grimoire is a textbook of magic. Such books typically include instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination and also how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, and demons. ...
  • The Grimoire was a comic book series published by Speakeasy Comics since the beginning of 2005. The acclaimed series, created by writer Sebastien Caisse and art studio Grafiksismik, had a creative team change right after the completion of its first story-arc with issue #6. ...
  • A book of instructions in the use of magic or alchemy, especially summoning demons
  • (Grimoires) So-called "Black Books" of (usually Goetic) magic, consisting of recipe collections, scrapbooks of magical customs, Who's Who's of the spirit worlds and phone directories for contacting various entities. ...
  • A magickal workbook containing ritual information, formulae, magickal properties of natural objects and preparation of ritual equipment.
  • A magical text or "grammar." Any medieval book containing magical procedures or spells for summoning spirits.
  • A magician's secret journal of spells and rituals.
  • A term of medieval European origin that originally referred to a book of spells and/or magical instruction. In recent times the term has sometimes been applied to books which deal with magic in any way. ...