The Importance of Text in Conjuration Magic

There's this idea that for Muslim Arab magicians, you can't do that kind of conjuration. You can't ring up a demon. not good. But what you can do is you can do an image, which is also somewhat transgressive and pulls something specific without it being a specific entity. And in a way, it's the difference between fishing with a rod and using a net. Does that make sense? I think that that makes a lot of sense. No, no, it really does.

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