The third spell (not that everything within is a ‘spell) inside the Necronomicon is a powerful but simple configuration of words, gestures, actions, reasonable sacrifices, and proper speech, which binds a powerful creature to you to do your will for a while.
Many teachers remove this from any copies their students might find (and if your student doesn’t find your copy, or at least your version, of the Necronomicon, are they really meant to be your student?
There is, after all, a lot of work put into the student by the time they’re thirteenish and ready to start sneaking into your forbidden books. And for some reason, everyone thinks the really terrible spell are at the bottom.**
They ARE, but that doesn’t mean that the ones up top aren’t terrible compare to, say, spells NOT in the Necronomicon.
Alice once had an enterprising students who said he’d read ahead and new something terrible would happen in chapter three if he were suitably rewarded.
Most people would consider the number of limbs he was permitted to retain to be very kind, so presumably he was shown favor.
Or maybe she was just amused by the number of students who died in esoteric-but-possible ways before reading Chapter III.
She was fascinated by the students who figured that Chaptire III seemed to have perfectly good, if rather disgusting, magickal theory, and who assumed there was some kind of trick.
(“Elder Gods will eat you” ought to count as a trick, but it doesn’t, like “sauerkraut” is sour.
She was annoyed by the one student she had who read voraciously, started in on the Lovecraft, looked like she couldn’t figure out anything wrong with, and when into Chapter IV, “Paleontology of Extinct Dragons”, and completely ignored Chapter III for now, as she didn’t feel ready for it.
But you can’t have everything. Even, and especially, if you’re Dark Lord.
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