The Library
You have discovered what is in Snake's library. If you offer him enough, he might allow you access to some of it. The best offer is something new to add to the library....
One last note... some of this is weird shit. Snake had some temporary mental problems (mainly paranoia) after reading some of this. So, be warned... these books may induce derangement.
Dæmonolatreia
French judge Remigius (Nicolas Remy) wrote this essential work on witch-hunting, Dæmonolatreia, which was published in three books in Lugduni in 1595. Since there have been a German translation (1693) and an English one by Montague Summers under the name Dæmonolatry (1930). Like the witch hunting works of Trithemius and Sprenger & Kramer (the infamous Malleus Maleficarum), the Dæmonolatreia explains the horrors and dangers of the power of the witches, how to distinguish them, and how to torture and destroy them.
Hydrophinnae (Latin)
No information on this tome available at this time.
I-Ching
An english translation of the "Book of Changes," a tome that presents a method of divination. This one isn't all that unusual; you can probably get your own copy in a bookstore.
Necrolatry (German)
No information on this tome available at this time.
Oracles by Michael de Nostradame (French)
This is the original edition of the Prophecies of Nostradamus. As with the I-Ching, modern translations are still readily available.
Pert Em Hru (French)
This one's correct translation is "The Book of Coming Forth by Day" but is better known as "The Book of the Dead". It is a French translation of an Egyptian tome.
Remnants of Lost Empires (German)
No information on this tome available at this time.
Revelations of the Dark Mother
This odd book was obtained from a fellow Nosferatu in Brazil. Apparently part of a vanity printing by a neonate who wanted to cause trouble, this book -- and all other available copies -- was purchased by the Court of Sao Paolo to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands and breaching the Masquerade.
How accurate anything in this book is remains to be seen, but the material is definitely an interesting read. It claims to be a work (I would say "definitive" work, but according to the text such a thing would be impossible) on the cults of Lilith, first wife of Adam.
This information may prove useful when combating the Lilith Cults that seem to be sprouting up these days.
Spatientia Halorum (Latin)
No information on this tome available at this time.
Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New England Canaan
A treatise on the uses of Magick in New England during the Colonial Period. It contains sections detailing witch hunts, and the reputed powers of various Witches. Also contained herein are rituals and rites that are purportedly magical in nature.
The Emerald Tablet (French)
Fully entitled "The Emerald Tablet of Hermes", this is a treatise on Alchemy and the Hermetic Tradition.
The Fragile Path
This one is a series of testaments by member of a mystical order called "The Traditions." They claim to wield magic in a way that would make the Tremere seem like pikers. It contains a page that is labeled as a manifesto by the organization that would become the Technocracy. VERY weird stuff.
The Golden Bough by Sir George Frazer
First published in 1890, The Golden Bough is a seminal work of modern anthropology. A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind that traces the development and confluence of thought from magic and ritual to modern scientific theory, it has been a source of great influence upon such diverse writers as T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and D.H. Lawrence. This edition restores many of the controversial passages expurgated in the 1922 edition that elucidate Frazer's bolder theories, and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes.
The Key of Solomon
The Clavis or Key to unlock the mysteries of Magick of Rabby Salomon. Translated from the Hebrew into French and from French rendered into English with additions by Ebenezer Sibley, M.D.... and enriched with Figures, Talismans, Pentacles, Circles, Characters, etc. London, No 18 Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn, 7th August, 1789
The Oath of the Order of Hermes
This is actually a short scroll rather than a tome. It contains the oath of a mystic organization called the Order of Hermes, and bears striking similarities to the Oath of the Tremere.
The Oath of the Tremere
This short scroll contains the Oath of the Tremere, by which they supposedly all function. There seem to be amazing differences between what the Oath says they do and what they actually do, however.
The Zohar
The chief expression of the Kabbalah is a work know as the Zohar ('Splendor') which was written as a commentary on the Pentateuch. Though it is ascribed to a rabbi of the second century, the work, in the form in which circulated in the last part of the thirteenth century A.D. was composed only a little earlier than then. Since Kabbalism originated in Europe, chiefly in Provence and Spain, the book can probably be ascribed to Moses de Leon, a native of Granada, who died in 1305.
Uralteschrecken (German)
No information on this tome available at this time.
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