Book-murder

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Among the later provisions of English law governing magical matters the crime of book-murder was one of wilfully destroying a book of magic. It carried the same penalty as the murder of a Christian: death.

Clegg, the father of Vinculus, was the last person to be tried and hanged for book-murder after he had wantonly destroyed The Book of Magic [30].