The Magic Book
A book endowed with supernatural power in the Danish tale of the same name, granting its owner knowledge, hidden secrets, or magical skill, and bringing both power and danger. The story tells of a boy who finds such a book in a magician's mountain dwelling and must read it with care, for the words come alive and threaten anyone who reads on. Magic books of this kind echo the real black books of Scandinavian folk magic, which were used to heal and to find lost things. The tale belongs to the Nordic cycle of grimoire legends, in which the book itself is a creature and a trap.