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• The Trolldom tradition: Svartkonst Books – The Grimories of Sweden.

  The magical books of the Scandinavian folk magic tradition of Trolldom are called “Svartkonst bok” – “Book of the Black Art”. A literar but slightly misleading translation, since they rarely have much or anything at all to do with things commonly categorized as “Black Magic”. Let´s see what the encyclopedia “Nordisk Familjebok” (second ed. published 1904-1926) says on the subject of Svartkonst books (or at least “try to see” through the veils of my translational limitations) ; Nordisk Familjebok/Uggleupplagan Svartkonstbok [...]