There Ain't No Necronomicon!
Copyright 1992 by Eric Hoffman and Poke Runyon
Every few years you will see
An ad as well-writ as can be!
Offering for sale a book...
Whose title is the selling hook.
It's called the Necronomicon,
To summon horrors from beyond...
Or so 'twas claimed by H.P.L.,
Writ by an Arab mad as hell!
The author, poor Abdul Alhazred,
Was 'et by demons in Damascus --
And how his book survived...
Don't ask us!
Lovecraft's fans both far and near
Have searched for many a fruitless year
To find this book of evil spells
But the truth is sad to tell...
THERE AIN'T NO NECRONOMICON!!!
There is a Key of Sol - o - mon
And a Lesser Key, Lemeg - a - ton.
There's a Grimorie of Honorius
And other works notorious...
Heptameron, Enchiradon, complete
With Tetragram - ma - ton
But there ain't no Necro - nom - ee - con,
Of that we have no doubt!
There's a Grand Grim-wah,
A True Grim-wha,
And Solomon's
Ars No-tor-ee-ah
There's Aramadel and Arbatel
And other catalogs of hell...
There's Picatrix ( not pick up sticks)
And other books of dirty tricks!
There's manuscripts quite Faust - tee - on
In Tablets in Enoch - ee - on...
But there ain't no Necornomicon,
And that's a natural fact!
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:49:40 GMT, catherine yronwode
<cat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>~Jim wrote:
>>
>> There's a recent debate on some forum regarding the potency and
authenticity
>> of The Necronomicon Spell Book (Simon) and I'm NOT going to touch that.
>
>There is no real "debate" and any discussion of the subject is
>not "recent." Folks who were there at the time the book was
>commissioned and published by Herman Slater and written by Peter
>Levenda with reference to the work of Samuel Noah Kramer knew the
>substance of the hoax all along. Only the very young and those
>who might profit by perpetuating the hoax see this as a subject
>for "debate."
>
>Please read these posts (each needs to be assembled on one line
>line to be parsed by your browser):
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=peter+levenda+simon+necronomicon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&c2coff=1&selm=3EE26ACE.531185E8%40columbia-center.org&rnum=2
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=peter+levenda+simon+necronomicon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&c2coff=1&selm=3E6D7E4A.EEC8D3F7%40luckymojo.com&rnum=1
>
>Cordially,
>
>cat yronwode
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