Contained in Sloane MS 3851 is a collection of charms, rituals, and operations for calling angels, summoning visions, detecting thieves, conjuring devils, scrying in stones, and using plant, animal, and mineral to work sorceries of enchantment, protection, lust, and healing.materia

This collection is held to have been assembled by one Arthur Gauntlet, an early modern cunning-man, not as an archive of spells and occult oddities to collect on a shelf but as a working repertoire of his magical wares, sorcerous services and cunning trade secrets. This grimoire is thus a testament to the professional magical practice of a seventeenth-century London cunning-man.

In this class, contemporary cunning man and historian of magic Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us in exploring the myriad prayers, conjurations, and charms: from the unbewitchings of curse-reversal and hex-breaking with certain herbs and gestures to the consecration of a washing pot for blessing healing waters; not to…