If you do an online image search you will find everything from games to manga to handmade books to rare books from the 18th century that contain the word "grimoire." Obviously, lots of people know what it means (Buffy the Vampire Slayer does). Or, at least, they have their own interpretation. One website explains that the word derives from the word "grammar:" a set of symbols that together form sentences. A grimoire, then, would be an explanation of how to combine symbols to make magic. Another source mentions that one kind of grimoire was the "founding text of Rastafarianism."
Since a friend's birthday is Halloween, I had to make one for her.
- Distressed Cover (Posted here)
- Tea and walnut ink-stained pages, torn (These techniques, different colors—I also scratched into the paper with a skewer)
- Quotes from Macbeth (Witches scene) scanned, flipped, and transferred with Ad Marker Blender pen (Posted here)
- Coptic binding with a Curved Needle (pp. 174-177 Making Handmade Books)
Ready for spells, charms, clippings, recipes or dreams.