Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn.

  • Stefan Strelcyn
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[1972]
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Credit: Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gdn{n) « XI, 4; from Arabic {y>r, cf. Worrell, in, 132. On the cult of the jinns in Ethiopia, see Griaule, LR, 135-7; cf. Kodinson, 60, 124, §§ 93, 95. hdsan MM «in hdmamu lahdsan f'hatlw • A*hr> «XVII, 32 ' children's disease(s)'. krdstyan X\Ct\±?l > VII, 3 and krdstyanawi hctifrWfl « XIII, 3 ' Christian ' in 'aynd krdstyan(awi) ' the [evil] eye of Christians ', cf. Worrell, in, 131. lams ti9°x i XVII, 32 ' leprosy ', cf. prescriptions in TT 1022 ff. (Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 472 if.); Rodinson, p. 37, n. 1. legewon .1,6; II, 5; III, 1; V, 1, 2, 3, 6; VI, 1; VII, 6, 7, 9; VIII, 3, 4; IX, 1, 4, 8, 13; X, 2, 3; XI, 3; XII, 1; XIV, 1; XV, 1; XVII, 39. Aeyecov, Mark v, 9 ; Luke viii, 30, a name for Satan. In Ethiopic magical literature one of the most frequently occurring devils. Chief of the barya [see above] Guidi, col. 327, cf. Worrell, in, 139; Strelcyn, Prieres, 327. See prescriptions against legewon (TT 1321-40) in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 564-9. legewon rdkus ' impure legewon ' III, 1; VIII, 4. 'aynd legewon 'the [evil] eye of legewon' IX, 1. See also: Samuel de Dabra Wagag, p. 26, note, and p. 41, 1. 22. mari 16* , f. marit °7<i-> j XII, 1 ' diviner ', cf. Worrell, in, 127; Strelcyn, Prieres, 337. magdl </»«7A » XVII, 34 ' pus '. magganna • VI, 1; VII, 10 ; XI, 2, 4 ; XII, 1; XV, 5 ; XVII, 31 ' colic with bad stomach-ache caused by the tapeworm; ydldt magganna the one-day magganna, a very strong colic with vomiting but without diarrhoea, caused by something poisonous ; it often kills within 24 hours ', Guidi, col. 111. This explanation is also adopted by Worrell, in, 135, and Strelcyn, Prieres, 329. TWA, 39, also gives « fiftf- i <^Cav> * lYfi^ » ' bad stomach-ache ' and KBT, 126, £n>p*? i firj^ t t-HUivt * f^Lfii^m-ft? ' Vol}SM>T'V * A<m° ! A<> * H-ftV s V4.fl » -l\?*Llf- « ^^ V* * . . . GW « fn'ft ;*■<»• s ^YiTr?^ > hbA « f */.*// s ^fi^fflh4? « **«Cm^ « f+fla.^n-fr * KIP* s 07^ « T.H » ^'7//£A « ' colic, stomach pain which causes vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea, and wind; . . . a kind of disease caused by tapeworm; accompanied by vomiting and colic, it causes sudden death '. ' Tetanus pains Trzos, ' List'. The magganna is certainly also the demon of the threshold and of the closed door. For details see Griaule, LR, 143-4. This belief is confirmed by different informants. The MDD card no. 30 (to MS fith. 589 of the BN) gives the following explanation: ' One gets this sickness instantaneously if one jumps over the threshold too quickly when leaving the house. A devil touches you on the head or on the side of your body or settles on it. One vomits and falls down . . . '. A card established by M.C. (informant: Agafiahu, 1928) says: ' Malicious genius of the empty house, of a closed house, or of a house which has not yet been opened (e.g. in the morning when nobody has gone out) . . . '.