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Highlights
- Card divination has long been a particularly iconic aspect of the Portuguese Book of Saint Cyprian, featuring in the cover illustrations of most of its nineteenth-century editions.
- Author(s): José Leitão
- 144 Pages
- Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
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About the Book
In Clearing the Waters: A Monograph on Saint Cyprian Divination from the 17th to the 19th Century, author José Leitão unravels the mystery of Saint Cyprian's seafaring incantation.
Book Synopsis
Card divination has long been a particularly iconic aspect of the Portuguese Book of Saint Cyprian, featuring in the cover illustrations of most of its nineteenth-century editions. Included in many of the cartomancy systems within this grimoire is a small pseudo-hagiographical narrative and incantation, which mentions a supposed seven-year seafaring journey made by Saint Cyprian himself. This incantation, when looked upon from a thematic, methodologic or historic perspective, seems out of place. Furthermore, similar incantations can also be found in several sources, both associated with cartomancy or any other 'Cyprianic' divination method, making the origin and meaning of these an unresolved question.In Clearing the Waters: A Monograph on Saint Cyprian Divination from the 17th to the 19th Century, author José Leitão collects an extensive corpus of divinatory and sorcerous practices from the records of the Portuguese Inquisition to unravel the mystery of this seafaring incantation, and how it has come to be associated with contemporary Cyprian divination. Along the way, this documentation reveals an untold history of four hundred years of Iberian urban magic, traversing coscinomancy, favomancy, and hydromancy, and culminating in the divinatory techniques found in the Book of Saint Cyprian. Besides offering historical clarification on the seafaring incantation, Clearing the Waters aims to be a bountiful resource and reference work by offering all the Inquisitorial documentation examined in detailed appendixes, most of which have been transcribed and translated into English for the first time.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.27 Inches (H) x 5.83 Inches (W) x .34 Inches (D)
Weight: .43 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 144
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Folklore & Mythology
Publisher: Hadean Press Limited
Format: Paperback
Author: José Leitão
Language: English
Street Date: June 28, 2022
TCIN: 87378123
UPC: 9781914166198
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-5107
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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