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June 10, 2015 10:21 am PDT
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18th century book of satanicillustrations
At The Paris Review, Dan Piepenbring looks at the Ouija board-style "Charlie Charlie" teen fad-cum-hoax and finds it lacking in artistic verve. In comparison, he points to the awesome Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, a book of "Satanic" illustrations from the 18th century (slyly-presented, at that time, as something much older), devised with similar adolescent titillations in mind: "DO NOT TOUCH!" Read the restOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Qn3sxdxi7qs/18th-century-book-of-satanic-i.html
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