From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914.

From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914.

From Virus 23, #0, 1989.

Likely a stylized basketball, but at first glance we thought it was a spiritual evocation.  From Chicago Teacher's College's 1954 yearbook.

From 73 Magazine, 1963.

An owl sigil from Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

How and why to turn words into magical sigils:

From King of Cats by Eileen O'Faolian and illustrated by Vera Bock.

We're delighted by this 5-star review of our book The Skeleton Key of Solomon:

Five Stars.  "Amazing as always, the inimitable Professor Oddfellow's tireless research and enthralling delivery has brought us a Goetic Work unlike any before it! The good Professor's comparisons of traditional Yoruban (and other African diaspora) Vévés and sigils that comprise what is in the West known as Voodoo or, more properly Vodou, but also encskeleton key of solomonompasses many Yoruba faiths like the more widely known Santeria, to European Grimoire traditions, such as the Lesser and Greater Keys of Solomon and many lesser known tomes, is ambitious. Professor Oddfellow simply compares and contrasts, he makes no feeble attempts to justify or negate anything or anyone. The ending of the book simply asks us to consider that perhaps rather than being influenced by one or the other that we all have access to a Universal technology that accesses Worlds and Intelligences far beyond our mundane world. With such a Work that the Professor has undertaken herein, there could be any number of failures and assumptions, which he avoids with tact and grace, leaving us with beautiful questions and the imagery of disparate cultures, both reaching in the dark for a Light." —Holy Mountaineer

From Fields of Applied Psychology by Anne Anastasi.

Your eye, like ours, might have identified the UFO flight path as a celestial sigil.  Rising to the call of duty, we created a print-quality symbol for those seeking to invoke contact.

Clipping from UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.

A design from the title page of Präjaculin by B. Schapiro, 1931.

Here's Oliver Herford's catlike monogram, from The Bashful Earthquake, 1898.

From The Prescription, Therapeutically, Pharmaceutically, Grammatically and Historically Considered by Otto Augustus Wall, 1898.

Here's how to write a sigil in cursive, as we learn in German Life and Manners as seen in Saxony at the Present Day by Henry Mayhew, 1865.