Grimoire
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Grimoire is an old name for a book of magic. The word is pronounced "grim-warr", which rhymes with "guitar".
The word is a mistaken was of saying grammar. It probably started being used in a time when not many people could read. Then any book might be thought to contain instructions for magic.
In the religion of Wicca other forms of Neopaganism, such a book is sometimes called a "Book of Shadows".