Paracelsus

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Paracelsus

German physician, magus, and astrologer, whose actual name was Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim. Traveled throughout Europe, practicing medicine, occultism, alchemy, prognostications. Wrote on sylphs, salamanders, nymphs: incorporating mystic elements into Germanic folk legends.

Noted for his magic speculum used in divination, for making which he offered detailed instructions (Wedeck 207, 208).

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