![]() ![]() “Here at McMaster, we have some of the original source materials from which those popular depictions take their inspiration,” said presenter Myron Groover, archives and rare books librarian at McMaster University Library’s William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. The virtual talk, entitled, “The Operation of All Wonderfull Things:” Magic and the Occult at McMaster University Library, is on Thursday, Oct. This month’s must-see Archives Alive event will take audiences back in time to explore rare texts at McMaster University rooted in the very real tradition of magic and philosophy in western Europe. Leather-bound books with ancient alphabets, pentagrams outlined in red paint on a floor, and hooded figures chanting incantations by candlelight these are among the depictions commonly conjured in popular culture around magic and the occult. ![]()
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