id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16124 Jagodzinski, Cecile M. Owen Davies. Grimoires: A History of Magic Books. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 368p. $29.95 (ISBN 9780199204519). LC2009-924589. 2010-11-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1935 77 52 Chapter 1 introduces the notion that words and books can be ritual objects; the line between books and magic books, and between miracles and sorcery, was a blurred one. The epigraph to Grimoires quotes an episode from Don Quixote in which a character, standing at the gates of hell, observes a dozen or so devils, playing tennis with rackets of fire—but rather than using tennis balls, their implements were books, “apparently full of wind and rubbish.” cache/crl-16124.pdf txt/crl-16124.txt