Alphabets that magicians and occultists devised or adopted to write spells, angelic speech and secret names, usually as ciphers over a familiar alphabet or as invented characters said to be received in vision. They served ritual and secrecy more than everyday writing. Several appear in Renaissance and medieval grimoires, where a scribe writing in them signaled access to hidden knowledge, and they remain in use among modern ceremonial magicians and witches. Members placed here so far include Theban, Passing the River, Enochian.
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Theban alphabet (reference article)
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The Theban alphabet, also known as the witches' alphabet, is a writing system, specifically a substitution cipher of the Latin script, that was used by early modern occultists and is popular in the Wicca movement.
Transitus Fluvii (reference article)
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Transitus Fluvii ("passing through the river" in Latin) or Passage Du Fleuve (in French) is an occult alphabet consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy (Cologne, 1533, but written around 1510).
Enochian (reference article)
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Enochian ( ee-NOK-ee-ən) is an occult constructed language-said by its originators to have been received from angels-recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England.
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