Ancient Spells and Magic

Warning and Disclaimer

Ancient Conjurations and Invocations is a collection of 22 spells for contacting and communicating with the other side. These spells are not recommended for the inexperienced or fearful. They are updated versions of invocations and rituals used hundreds and sometimes thousands of years ago. Even then, users were cautioned about their powers and admonished to take great care in their workings. Great care has been taken to update the language used when written and to retain the original intent and cadence as much as possible. NOTICE: These spells, conjurations, and invocations, along with all other magic or text contained on this site are provided as CURIOS and intended for personal entertainment ONLY.







Caution: Ancient Magic Spells

Absolute control, based on knowledge and experience, is of the utmost importance when conjuring-up or communicating with spirits. The conjurations and invocations contained in this book are recommended for experienced practitioners only and the publisher and distributor of this collection or any of its parts shall be held harmless against and free from all liabilities. Again, the purchaser, user, owner or holder of this collection, by their possession of it in whole or in part, shall stand noticed and agree that they are solely liable for their actions and the outcomes. These spells are distributed as curios only and intended for entertainment.

Experienced practitioners will find these spells to have a familiar "feel", with many of the common fallacies of today missing. For instance, within these spells you will find an overwhelming preponderance of natural ingredients with such things as colored candles, commonly used today, not being used at all. In their place, beeswax candles are used, as these are closer to the initial intent of the writers of these spells.

Ancient Spells and Magic Practices

Ancient spell creation and the practice of magic was a lot like our modern cooking. And just like today, while anyone can cook, but only some can cook well, in the ancient world just about anyone could form or create a simple amulet or cast out a demon, but only a few specialized in such activities, mastered the art, and achieved superior results. Fortunately for us today, those ancient practitioners kept their own private note-books or "cook books," where they painstakingly transcribed their secret recipes and formulae—building collections of recipes, hints, notes, and ideas, which were sometimes unique and sometimes borrowed or adapted from the works of others. The spells, conjurations, and invocations were tested, improved, and then often passed on to clients, colleagues, disciples, or successors. Because of their substance or content, and being the only lasting and accurate transmission of the magical arts and practices, these now ancient texts were often hunted and suppressed, especially, but not exclusively, by overly zealous Christians.

Spell Books of Antiquity

Fortunately, some of these ancient spell and magic collections survived. But because these ancient texts were written on papyrus, a perishable, organic material, most of the survivors come from the dry sands of Egypt and are written in either Egyptian or Greek. However, there are some similar books of magic, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, that were found in the Cairo Genizah, a used-paper store-room in a medieval synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and numerous other medieval manuscripts, written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and many other languages, which attest to the popularity of such texts of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery throughout the Middle Ages.

The collections vary greatly in quality and substance, from an individual incantation scribbled on a small slip of papyrus to large anthologies with hundreds of spells, conjurations, and invocations, meticulously copied and heavily annotated. Also, because these spell books were meant for their owners' private use, they often contain brief instructions that lack much direction such as "('repeat this', whatever this is supposed to be) three times," or an "etc.," when only a few words of a well-known (to the owner, that is) conjuration or invocation are written down. Such ambiguously abbreviated notes along with the lack of ordering for the spells—not to mention a preface or an index—would have made the spell book hard to use for anyone not intimately familiar with its contents. In a very few cases, the recipes were written in a special code, apparently invented by the practitioner for that specific purpose, in which case no outsider could make any use of the encoded conjurations or spells.

Unfortunately, these ancient spell books never mention their owners' names. However, in some cases the identity of the owner can roughly be determined from the papyrus's provenance. There are a few cases where the book's owner made note where a specific incantation or spell came from, but it's rare.

The Spells: