CLASSIC: Grimoires: Fact and Fiction
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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A Little Tip for Non-Christians
In 186 BCE, the senate rounded up and burned books on sooth saying. Over a century and a half later, 2000 books also on divination were burned by emperor Augustus. In 181 BCE, somebody found a buried chest of books that were supposedly the work of Pythagoras. Religious works of course were also burned by opponents on all sides.
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