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The Book of Oberon: The Elizabethan Grimoire of Fairies, Spirits, and Demons

The Book of Oberon is the modern name for Folger Shakespeare Library manuscript V.b.26, an anonymous English and Latin compilation assembled in late sixteenth-century England. Its contents include religious invocations, spirit material, practical experiments, magical characters, diagrams, healing material, and passages concerning Oberyon, a king of the fairies. It is not solely a fairy book, and it was not known historically by the modern title now attached to its published edition.

The surviving manuscript carries internal dates including fifteen seventy-seven and fifteen eighty-three, but…

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