From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.

"'Books are not seldom talismans and spells.' —Cowper"  From The Gateway, 1971.  This book reads the mind of the reader: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.

From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.

From Quest, 1976.

From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.

"Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, witches and ghosts who rove at midnight hour."  From The Monk by M. G. Lewis, 1913.

From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.

Staring at the flame.  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.

From The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice by Robert Ritner.

The Sphinx in its normal, involuted, and evolved states.  From Mysteria, 1913.

From Swarthmore's 1923 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.

Animal skins and effigies ... memories of college.  From South Suburban's 1967 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Never accept a gift from a necromancer or demon.  Steal it or buy it, but do not accept it as a gift ... or legacy."  From Weird Tales, 1943.

From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.

From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.

"'You will come,' the messenger mumbled in his brain.  'Your master has called.'"  From Unknown, 1940.

That awkward moment when bottled magic sticks to your hand.  From Hearst's, 1921.

From Unknown, 1941.