Ancient Grimoire of Dark Magick [Hardcover]

Robert Blanchard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Intl Guild on Occult Sciences (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883147573
• ISBN-13: 978-1883147570
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,995,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tripe, January 15, 2002

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S. parker "Ian Corrigan" (Madison, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ancient Grimoire of Dark Magick (Hardcover)

For those interested in the sorcery of medieval Europe, this book may look interesting - don't be fooled. It is a farrago of half-understood and often misrepresented material, lifted from both actual grimoires, and from the anti-magical works of the church. The author pretends that there are medieval 'black books' of diabolism - there are none. He presents material lifted from Gardnerian Witchcraft as part of 'satanic' ritual, and in general lies freely to his readers. Those interested in the real magic of the middle ages, including demon-summoning, will do much better to read Waite.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time and paper, September 12, 2002

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troy hendricks (Greenwood, S.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ancient Grimoire of Dark Magick (Hardcover)

This is my first (and definantly last) IGOS published book. It is astonishingly badly written and the author states in the introduction that it's source is from "channeled" material to boot. The fake leather cover has the cheap appearance of a junior high school annual. It's hard for this reviewer to understand what makes this poor tome "ancient" or "dark", or for that point "magick"

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tripe indeed, August 8, 2002

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This review is from: Ancient Grimoire of Dark Magick (Hardcover)

The dust jacket advertises the book to be from documents in the British Library, but has no bibliography, no sources listed, and no footnotes. It appears to be a fabrication based somewhat on known medieval and later grimoires. It contains nothing of merit or interest to the serious researcher or student of magick. The binding is of a very poor quality, the pages look like photocopies, and the illustrations are very poorly rendered.