A survey by Nigel Pennick, published in the United States by Destiny Books in 1992 (originally issued in Britain by Rider Books), tracing the origins and documented use of scripts and alphabets developed or adapted for magical, divinatory and initiatory purposes: runic alphabets, Ogham, Hebrew and Greek letters in their esoteric use, and early modern magical alphabets such as the Theban and Celestial scripts. The book treats each alphabet's documented history and its later esoteric use as separate, traceable facts.
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Citation
AuthorNigel Pennick
PublisherDestiny Books
Publication Year1992
URLhttps://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/magical-alphabets/author/pennick-nigel/
Source Typebook
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
A specialist survey by a published historian of esoteric and folk practice, treating magical and esoteric alphabets as a documented historical phenomenon with traceable origins. Placed at this atlas's top tier for its specific subject; a general history of writing is checked alongside it for any claim about an alphabet's ordinary, non esoteric origin. Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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