<P> An older magical text, a fourth - century Greek papyrus entitled Eighth Book of Moses otherwise unrelated to the Sixth and Seventh Books, was found in Thebes in the 19th century and published as part of the Greek Magical Papyri . </P> <P> No first version of this work has been established, but early versions began to appear as inexpensive pamphlets in Germany in the 18th century . Elements of the "Seventh Book", such as "The Seven Semiphoras of Adam" and "The Seven Semiphoras of Moses" appear to have come from the seventh book of the earlier European copies of the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh . The work came to wide prominence when published as volume 6 of Das Kloster in 1849 in Stuttgart by antiquarian Johann Scheible . </P> <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>

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