Harry who?
If your kids want to pretend that they’re wizards and witches, let’s show them a real magic book!
More from the Folger page:
This book was used by many people over many, many years. Owners added their own notes into the margins, and one person even wrote in page numbers.
Although people in the Middle Ages and even during Shakespeare’s time used magic for lots of different reasons, including healing sick people, helping to find lost objects, or finding the guilty person when a crime was committed, magic was often done in secret.
I wanted to make some sort of King James reference, since he was supposedly more heavily into the whole witchcraft thing? But this book dates from 1580. I wonder what Shakespeare’s actual experience with this sort of magic might have been?