Theban alphabet

The Theban alphabet is used as an alternative to the Latin alphabet. It was used by early modern occultists and is popular with the Wicca movement. It is also known as the 'Witch's Alphabet'. It is used by witches to write spells, inscriptions and other texts. It serves to disguise the meaning of a text and to give it a mystical quality.

It was first published in 1518 in Polygraphiae libri sex, a cryptographic work by Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), a German abbot, lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and occultist. In that book it is attributed to Honorius of Thebes. However the Theban alphabet only appears in one manuscript by Honorius, Liber Iuratus Honorii ("The Sworn Book of Honorius"), and it is attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), a student of Trithemius.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
There is a one-to-one correspondence between letters of the Theban and Latin alphabets with the exception of the letters j and u. These letters are represented by the letters for i and v.

The Theban alphabet

Theban alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Theban (Excel)

Sample text

Sample text in the Theban alphabet

Links

Information about the Theban alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban_alphabet
https://thebantoday.com/
https://eclecticwitchcraft.com/what-is-the-theban-alphabet/
https://fontmeme.com/theban-font/

Theban font
https://www.ffonts.net/Theban.font
https://www.wfonts.com/font/theban
https://www.1001fonts.com/theban-alphabet-font.html
https://highfonts.com/theban-alphabet-font/

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