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... Menippus a mage - Chaldaean offers , in com- plementary fashion , to take a living man down to the underworld to talk with the ghosts there . The Cynic Menippus , in despair of learning the meaning of life from the philosophers amongst ...
... Menippus a mage - Chaldaean offers , in com- plementary fashion , to take a living man down to the underworld to talk with the ghosts there . The Cynic Menippus , in despair of learning the meaning of life from the philosophers amongst ...
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... Menippus to prolonged rituals of purification , stretching from one new moon to the next . Each day he washes him in the Euphrates before the rising sun , recites an obscure and protracted incantation , in which he calls upon some ...
... Menippus to prolonged rituals of purification , stretching from one new moon to the next . Each day he washes him in the Euphrates before the rising sun , recites an obscure and protracted incantation , in which he calls upon some ...
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... Menippus to travel to Babylon from Greece , but the distance to the city from central Greece was around 1,200 miles as the crow flies . If Menippus had been able to manage a generous 20 miles a day and had been able to travel more or ...
... Menippus to travel to Babylon from Greece , but the distance to the city from central Greece was around 1,200 miles as the crow flies . If Menippus had been able to manage a generous 20 miles a day and had been able to travel more or ...
Contents
the Witches of the Latin Tradition | 39 |
the Sorcerers of the Imperial | 77 |
Grimoires Amulets and Curse Tablets | 115 |
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