Pseudomonarchia Daemonum Original Art For many years Shintaro Kago

For many years Shintaro Kago

Said to be the motto of the al-chemists

Friend and train beast companions to act as your eyes

A 208x165mm watercolour painting on 300gsm watercolour paper in a black stained meranti wood frame

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum Original Art For many years Shintaro KagoTranslated, with a commentary by Paul Summers Young In 1577, Johann Weyer appended a short work titled Pseudomonarchia Daemonum to his treatise on the falsehoods of witchcraft and the magical arts, De Praestigiis Daemonum. Thanks in very large part to Reginald Scots inclusion of a translation in his own Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), this short satirical play upon the Book of Spirits has attained an afterlife Weyer could not have foreseen. Our