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In Germany, with the increased interest in folklore during the 19th century, many historians took an interest in magic and in grimoires.
Several published extracts of such grimoires in their own books on the history of magic, thereby helping to further propagate them.
Perhaps the most notable of these was the Protestant pastor Georg Conrad Horst ( 1779 – 1832 ), who from 1821 to 1826 published a six-volume collection of magical texts in which he studied grimoires as a peculiarity of the Mediaeval mindset.
Another scholar of the time interested in grimoires, the antiquarian bookseller Johann Scheible, first published the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, two influential magical texts that claimed to have been written by the ancient Jewish figure Moses.
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses were amongst the works that later spread to the countries of Scandinavia, where, in the Danish and Swedish languages, grimoires were known as ' black books ' and were commonly found amongst members of the army.

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