What is a Grimoire?

Answer 1

While searching the web I found two results for Grimoire which are entirely different to each other. I am givng both and the asker may be knowing what he meant and take it. and also tell us actually he meant.

Actually speaking I was going through Wikipedia pages and what I found there was mentined by DUMMY before me. s it is my practice not to repeat the answers given by others I started browsing other sources and found was something else.

As per answers.com --

The Grimoire was a comic book series published by Speakeasy Comics since the beginning of 2005. The acclaimed series, created by writer Sebastien Caisse and art studio Grafiksismik, had a creative team change right after the completion of its first story-arc with issue #6. A creative different between the creators and publisher along with alleged problems over payments put the collaboration to a halt during the summer of 2005. Editor Chris Stone has since taken over the writing chores for the series. Of the new team and storyline, only issue #7 was published before Speakeasy closed on February 27, 2006.

Synopsis
"For all the enchantments, devices and creatures to be found in the cursed Grimoire, its most potent power might be this: whoever holds it will find his or her fate bound to it. Amandine should know - it has become a tragic family affair. The Grimoire is passed on to her from the hands of a mysterious masked stranger, and what starts out as a walk to a friend's house becomes the first steps of a life's adventure!"

As per wikipedia.org-
A grimoire (IPA [grɪˈmwɑr]) is a book of magical knowledge written between the late-medieval period and the 18th century. Such books contain astrological correspondences, lists of angels and demons, directions on casting charms and spells, on mixing medicines, summoning unearthly entities, and making talismans.

The word grimoire is from the Old French gramaire, and is from the same root as the words grammar and glamour. This is partly because, in the mid-late Middle Ages, Latin "grammars" (books on Latin syntax and diction) were foundational to school and university education, as controlled by the Church — while to the illiterate majority, non-ecclesiastical books were suspect as magic. But "grammar" also denoted, to literate and illiterate alike, a book of basic instruction. A grammar is a description of a set of symbols and how to combine them to create well-formed sentences. A Grimoire is, appropriately enough, a description of a set of magickal symbols and how to combine them properly.

Answer 2

This is a tome and usually contains lore from the far past. Usually a tome is not a single volume but a living document that (... for one reason or another ...) ceased to be updated. The different between the tom & grimoire is that the latter seems to suggest 'darker' intensions and activities against someone or something.

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Answer 3

A magical book. or at least thats what all the fiction books I've read that mention a grimoire was.

Answer 4

A grimoire (IPA [grɪˈmwɑr]) is a book of magical knowledge written between the late-medieval period and the 18th century. Such books contain astrological correspondences, lists of angels and demons, directions on casting charms and spells, on mixing medicines, summoning unearthly entities, and making talismans.

Answer 5

A book.

Answer 6

a book of magic spells

Answer 7

some people call it book of shadows. a book of magic. (spells,rituals etc.)

Answer 8

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