The corpus of German grimoires attributed to the semi-mythic patronage of the infamous early modern sorcerer Faust were composed and re-articulated in popular circulation from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. They instruct on the ritual protocols for calling, pacting, and trafficking with a range of devilish and elemental spirits and shades; from circle casting and tool consecration to the spoken acts of conjuration, deployments of seals and sigil, and other such intricacies of these cunning nigromantic arts.

In this class, we will delve into Der Schwarze Rabe (or, The Black Raven), a recently-translated Faustian handbook of treasure-hunting and ghost-laying, to consider its streamlined and rather modular approach to conjuration, and its applications for expanding an extant goetic practice; as well as surveying the range of supporting planetary spiritwork and saint magic contained therein.