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An imagined Elizabethan scholar holds a black obsidian mirror reflecting his shadowed face beside a candle, evoking the occult reputation of John Dee’s mirror rather than reconstructing an authenticated event

Case file 035Ancient Mysteries

The Devil’s Looking Glass

A black mirror linked to John Dee’s angelic experiments has Mexican origins, but the evidence tying it to the English magician remains incomplete.