Liber Revelationum de Insidia et Versutiis Daemonum Adversus Homines

A book of demonology by the 13th century Abbot Richalmus (Richalm von Schöntal or Schönthal), which was not printed until much later; Wikipedia says the 16th century, but Paul Brians says it was "first printed by Bernard Pez in his Thesaurus Anecdotorum Novisisimus (Wittenberg?: Philippi, Martini & Joannis Veith, 1721-29), vol. 1, part 2, columns 373-472."

"Richalmus claimed it to be untrue that every person is haunted by one demon only. On the contrary, demons will crowd like a thick wall around any human, and when Richalmus closed his eyes, he would often see tiny demons flying around both himself and others, 'thick as dust in a ray of sun'." [Richalmus, Wikipedia]

Brians says "This crochety monk was obsessed with demons, blaming them for all of the petty irritants that surrounded him. . ." [Satanic Verses Chapter V: A City Visible but Unseen, brians.wsu.edu, Paul Brians, Fall 1998] As an example, Richalmus blamed demons for his difficulties in concentrating while reading: "When I am reading directly from the book and only with the thought, as I usually do, they [the devils] make me read aloud word for word, depriving me of the inner understanding of what I read so that I can penetrate so much less into the inner strength of reading the more I pour myself into the outer language." [Los diablos y la lectura, loquenuncatedigo.blogspot.com, dated 10/13/2007; translated by Google Translate]

According to Phillips Keith, Liber Revelationum includes a spell to raise a draconibus. [RB Hell (online text)] However, it seems unlikely that Liber Revelationum would include such a spell, given Richalmus' hatred of demons.

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