As a teenager in the 80's I was a big H.P. Lovecraft fan, and had my own copy of the Avon Books edition of the Necronomicon (it didn't seem so easy to find then, before Amazon and other online booksellers). It's somewhat amusing, and I enjoyed the commentary part of it that compared Lovecraft's mythos to Babylonian or something more than I actually enjoyed the magic part of it. It's a good companion to any Lovecraft collection, of course...
In college I met a few other fans of weird fiction, including Leo, who said he'd actually used the spell in it to find a woman.
The spell goes a bit like this (courtesy of the Occult Forum because I don't have my copy of the book with me in New York City):
I seem to recall it requires some preparation, including a specially consecrated knife and what-not, so this is only useful after having gone through some prep work for reusable equipment... A short "by-the-way" overview is on this blog post...
Well, Leo said after he did that he ended up dating a girl named Shelly, and was still dating her when we were in college, though she wasn't there, so he had to head out of town to see her. And of course, he could easily make the rest of our group a bit jealous by showing us the photo of her in a miniskirt, as the rest of us didn't have any girls in our lives, too nerdy...
Eventually they broke up and after college, in Seattle, he bought a lucky crystal and met and married a girl named Michelle, which lasted a while...
And now, nearly three decades later, he and Shelly just got married this past weekend...
Maybe it worked, just a bit slow... In any case, it's a pretty cool story!
In college I met a few other fans of weird fiction, including Leo, who said he'd actually used the spell in it to find a woman.
The spell goes a bit like this (courtesy of the Occult Forum because I don't have my copy of the book with me in New York City):
To Win the Love of a Woman
(chant the following three times over an apple or a pomegranate; give the fruit to the
woman to drink of the juices, and she will surely come to you.)
MUNUS SIGSIGGA AG BARA YE
INNIN AGGISH XASHXUR GISHNU URMA
SHAZIGA BARA YE
ZIGASHUBBA NA AGSISHAMAZIGA
NAMZA YE INNIN DURRE ESH AKKI
UGU AGBA ANDAGUB!
I seem to recall it requires some preparation, including a specially consecrated knife and what-not, so this is only useful after having gone through some prep work for reusable equipment... A short "by-the-way" overview is on this blog post...
Well, Leo said after he did that he ended up dating a girl named Shelly, and was still dating her when we were in college, though she wasn't there, so he had to head out of town to see her. And of course, he could easily make the rest of our group a bit jealous by showing us the photo of her in a miniskirt, as the rest of us didn't have any girls in our lives, too nerdy...
Eventually they broke up and after college, in Seattle, he bought a lucky crystal and met and married a girl named Michelle, which lasted a while...
And now, nearly three decades later, he and Shelly just got married this past weekend...
Maybe it worked, just a bit slow... In any case, it's a pretty cool story!
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