Magical Text
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A practical handbook or spell designed to effect specific outcomes through words, names, materials, and timing. It privileges procedure and efficacy, often including adjurations, sigils, and ritual constraints.

Book of the Dead
Anonymous
1550-50 BCE
Egyptian

Atharvaveda
Anonymous
1-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu

Greek Magical Papyri
Anonymous
200 BCE-500 CE
Greek

Pyramid Texts
Anonymous
2350-2150 BCE
Egyptian

Coffin Texts
Anonymous
2055-1650 BCE
Egyptian

The Amduat
Anonymous
1500-1400 BCE
Egyptian

The Book of Caverns
Anonymous
1200-1100 BCE
Egyptian

Isis and the Seven Scorpions
Anonymous
400 BCE
Egyptian

Metternich Stela
Anonymous
360-342 BCE
Egyptian

Dresden Codex
Anonymous
1200-1250 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan

The Battle of the Trees
Taliesin
1300-1400 CE
Celtic, Welsh

Cheoyongga
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
East Asian, Korean

Codex Borbonicus
Anonymous
1519-1530 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec

Codex Borgia
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Codex Cospi
Anonymous
1480-1520 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Anonymous
1450-1519 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Codex Laud
Anonymous
1450-1550 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Codex Vaticanus B
Anonymous
1400-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Madrid Codex
Anonymous
1250-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan

Ritual of the Bacabs
Anonymous
1700-1800 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan