The most significant surviving Latin text on magic, the Summa Sacre Magice is now available in English for the first time ever. Join us for a deep dive with Stephen Skinner, a leading authority in Western esotericism, classic magical works and the grimoire tradition.

Dating from 1346, the *Summa Sacre Magice* by Berengarius Ganelli provides the foundation for many grimoires and contains practical magic that has been lost from later manuscripts. Owned by Johannes Trithemius and Dr. John Dee, this text is the root of Shemhamphorash, Solomonic, and Enochian magic.

Translated by Dr. Stephen Skinner and Daniel Clark, this volume contains the first two books. It features some of the earliest details of angelic invocations from the Almadel, tables from the Shemhamphorash, the ten candariis talismans, and the hierarchy of Tartarus. It also offers instructions for making four of Solomon's magical rings and his pentagram, sacred knowledge that passed through only four previous teachers.

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A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, compiled by a leading authority in the field.

A rich collection of folktales and urban legends from around the world, some hilarious, some ridiculous, some frightening or paranoid. Each story comes with an accompanying brief note to provide context. The stories, whether original or modern versions and retellings have all been in circulation in the last decade. New tales reflecting new concerns; old tales repurposed for new audiences and new ways of telling.

The collection illustrates that these stories are now alive across many new media; where stories that once originated via the oral tradition were then collected and reinterpreted by gatekeepers for “official versions” they now proliferate on X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. This is the first such popular book to bring together stories with both traditional and digital media origins and to examine how the phenomenon of social media has affected both the spread of urban legends and their very nature.

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