All About Grimoires, Book of Shadows & Other Magical Texts

Alethea Cho
SweetWitch
Published in
9 min readApr 11, 2022

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“There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.” ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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Photo by Sierra Koder

Just as Susanna Clarke made the distinction in her novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, there are primarily two kinds of books when it comes to magic: Books about magic, and books of magic.

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Alethea Cho
SweetWitch

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