Grimoire
A grimoire was a book of spells used by magic users such as witches or sorceresses.
Witches of a high calibre would have their grimoire bound by their own skin, as Isaac Greatorex did. His grimoire ended up in a private library, from which it was stolen by Margaret Wyndham. Greatorex planned to use it to resurrect himself, but it was instead used by Wyndham and Liz Shaw to destroy him. (HOMEVID: Ghosts of Winterborne [+]Loading...["Ghosts of Winterborne (home video)"])
Pope Honorius wrote The Grimoire of Pope Honorius. The Third Doctor found a copy he never knew existed in Olive Hawthorne's collection of occult material. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dæmons [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Dæmons (novelisation)"])
Olive Hawthorne was given the Hawthorne grimoire by Lobelia. It told her secrets of magic to help her protect Devil's End from evil. (HOMEVID: The Inheritance [+]Loading...["The Inheritance (home video)"], PROSE: The Inheritance [+]Loading...["The Inheritance (short story)"])
The Sherwood Sorceress was entirely powerless without her grimoire. After her original grimoire was taken from her by P.R.O.B.E., she spent thirty years looking for another one of equal power, only for that one to also be taken from her by Liz Haggard on 9 January 2021 when the Sorceress tried to use it to drain the life force of Liz's granddaughter Elizabeth Holub. (HOMEVID: Sherwood Sorceress [+]Loading...["Sherwood Sorceress (home video)"])
Auteur owned a grimoire prior to joining Faction Paradox, (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"]) which was returned to him by Retconning Crocodiles in the brief span of time Auteur returned to the Shadow Spire to write an abecedarium. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Author [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Author (short story)"])
