We Wnd a grimoire entitled ‘Cyprianus H€ollenzwa¨nge’ circulating in Germany on the time, and Scheible published a textual content entitled ‘Cyprian’s Invocation of Angels, along with his Conjuration for the Spirits guarding Hidden Treasures’. 132 Jens Clemmensen’s treasure-conjuring handbook used to be most likely a model of this manuscript. regardless of the direction of inXuence, the pre-eminence of the name in Danish magical culture used to be definitely sealed through the e-book within the 1770s of the Wrst revealed Scandinavian black book—more of which a bit later. simply because there has been no chapbook grimoire revolution in Scandinavia, possession in the course of the eighteenth and early 19th centuries used to be constrained principally to the proficient middling style, particularly civil servants, academics, clergy, and infantrymen. The latter had a very robust inXuence at the flow of grimoires in Scandinavian society. One black booklet proprietor used to be a Norwegian army oYcer and farmer named Ulrich Christian Heide (d. 1785). 133 He used to be in lots of methods a regular ‘enlightenment’ guy. He spoke a number of languages and donated a few 457 of his books in English, French, and Danish, together with the writings of Voltaire, to an army college. His svartebok was once now not between them. used to be his curiosity in his black books that of the indifferent antiquarian? Or did it comprise occult secrets and techniques during which Heide had an earnestly specialist curiosity? possible comprehend why a Wnely produced Cyprianus of Danish starting place, written round the related time as Heide’s black publication, was once owned by way of a succession of Norwegian oYcers throughout the early 19th century. 134 It contained magic to enhance one’s shot and to curry favour with superiors. As has already been pointed out, the opposite nice appeal of black books for squaddies was once the data a few of them contained concerning the Devil’s pact. infantrymen made up approximately a 1/2 these prosecuted in eighteenth-century Sweden for trying to make a pact with devil. in addition to cash they understandably requested for defense from bullets and a assured lifespan. army curiosity used to be extra better by means of the mythical diabolic actions of the French basic the Duke of Luxembourg, who, as we've seen, used to be stuck up within the AVair of the Fig. 10 Prophetesses and Cyprianus’ gigantic Dream e-book. A nineteenth-century Danish divination handbook. 128 | Enlightenment and Treasure Poisons. The magician Lesage claimed Luxembourg had asked his magical relief in army concerns among different issues, whereas Marie Bosse acknowledged, lower than torture, that Luxembourg wanted to name up the satan. Luxembourg used to be identified to have a weak point for fortune-tellers and admitted lower than interrogation to having consulted Lesage on a few events. He acknowledged that Lesage had oVered to promote him a replica of the Enchiridion Leonis papæ, yet he declined. a hundred thirty five there has been no point out within the police records that he had ever tried a Devil’s pact. Rumours of his occult dabblings have been speedy used for propagandist reasons, and in 1680 the Wrst of various variants of a German chapbook seemed, which gave an account of ways the duke had offered himself to the satan whereas within the Bastille in 1659.