Witch alphabet

Theban Alphabet

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A perfect addition to any Grimoire or Book Of Shadows, a Witch's Theban Alphabet page for you to print at home or use digitally. Everything has been designed by myself, and is part of a series of Grimoire pages I offer here at Tainted Craft. Simply download to your computer and print out to start colouring. Or alternatively, open the file (.png) in an app such as Procreate to digital colour. I offer 2 files in this download; one is with a white background, and the other is with a transparent…

The Theban alphabet is a magical language that was original used to hide magical research and practice from members of the church. Books could be translated

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As writing goes, English is pretty straightforward. Sure, it has its weird parts: some of our letters combine to make new sounds, we have extra letters we don’t really need and there are spelling rules that only apply half the time. But on the whole, we have it easy. It’s not always like this. The Latin alphabet that English uses is alphabetic – in general, there’s one letter for every sound. In other writing systems, one character can signal a whole syllable. Or it might be like the Chinese…