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The Baneful Archive

A record of harmful workings as historical texts actually set them down: quoted from the edition they were printed in, with the page they stand on. Baneful is the older word for magic worked to harm.

These are documents, not instructions. Midnight Spellcraft neither recommends nor condones the use of anything recorded here. Where a working called for something this site will not put in front of a reader, the Archive says what the text asked for and goes no further.

What it does All To harm To accuse To bind To ruin
Source Any Reginald Scot 1584 Henry Cornelius Agrippa 1651 Theocritus 1889 S. L. MacGregor Mathers 1889 Charles Godfrey Leland 1899 S. L. MacGregor Mathers 1904

2 entries match · clear

Reginald Scot · 1584
The Boiling Stone
To identify a thief from among named suspects, by a sign the operator produces himself.
To accuse
theft ordeal threshold pebbles
Reginald Scot · 1584
The Sieve and the Shears
To name a thief from among suspects by the turning of a suspended sieve.
To accuse
theft sieve shears divination

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