There was a time when magic was everywhere. In the ancient world, nearly everyone accepted that magic powers were real. And on quiet Sundays, people from every walk of life, from the priests at the temple to the crazy guy next door, would pass the day indoors trying to summon demons.

These spells probably didn’t work, of course—but didn’t stop anyone. And if you’d been born a couple thousand years earlier, odds are you’d have spotted your neighbor in the window, trying some of the spells on this list.

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