<P> Historian Owen Davies traces copies of the work from the 18th century in Germany . After circulating there, the work was popularized in the United States first in the communities of the Pennsylvania Dutch . </P> <P> In the early 19th - century European or European - American grimoires were popular among immigrants and in rural communities where the folk traditions of Europe, intertwined with European religious mysticism, survived . One of the earliest American grimoires is John George Hohman's Pow - Wows; or, Long Lost Friend, a collection of magical spells originally published in 1820 for Pennsylvania Dutch spiritualists known as "hexmeisters". </P> <P> While versions of The Sixth and Seventh Books were likely passed around German immigrant communities from the late 18th century, the 1849 Leipzig copy was followed by a New York printing, in German, in 1865, and an English translation in 1880 . The growth of inexpensive paperback publication in the 19th century, like those of Chicago occult publisher L.W. de Laurence, helped the work gain popularity outside German communities . </P> <P> Its prominence as a source of popular rural Pennsylvanian and Appalachian "folk magic" spells has been recorded as late as the mid-20th century . </P>

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