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| | The Key of Solomon: Book II: Chapter VIII. Of the Knife, Sword, Sickle, Poniard, Dagger, Lance, Wand, Staff, And Other ... |
 | | IN order to properly carry out the greatest and most important Operations of the Art, various Instruments are necessary, as a Knife with a white hilt, another with a fl hilt, a short Lance, wherewith to trace Circles, Characters, and other things. |
 | | the same way, as also the Dagger (Figure 65), the Poniard (Figure 66), and the short Lance (Figure 67), in the day and hour of Mercury, and they should be dipped in the blood of a magpie and the juice of the herb Mercury. |
 | | Thou must make for them handles of white boxwood cut at a single stroke from the tree, at the rising of the Sun, with a new knife, or with any other convenient instrument. |
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