Volume 1
The devils and evil spirits of Babylonia : being Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against the demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts, and kindred evil spirits, which attack mankind / Tr. from the original cuneiform texts, with transliterations, vocabulary, notes, etc. by R. Campbell Thompson.
- Reginald Campbell Thompson
- Date:
- 1903-1904
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: The devils and evil spirits of Babylonia : being Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against the demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts, and kindred evil spirits, which attack mankind / Tr. from the original cuneiform texts, with transliterations, vocabulary, notes, etc. by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![May [the word of Ea] make clear! 235. May [Damkina] direct aright! [O Marduk, eldest son of the Ocean Deep !] Thine is the power [to brighten] and bless.a (Plate XLVIII.) [Incantation] [Eads of 11. 238-251 remaining.] [Hiatus of about five lines.] He hath put the [potent meteorite ?] of heaven at his head, 255. That a kindly Spirit (and) a kindly Guardian, Like the God that created him, May stand at his head continually, To exalt his head to favour, 260. Whether it be an evil Spirit or an evil Demon, Or an evil Ghost or an evil Devil, Or an evil God or an evil Fiend, Or a Hag-demon, Or a Ghoul, a These lines are restored from Cun. Texts, part xvii, pi. i, 11. 30 ff., and pi. 26, 11. 80 ff.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24876069_0001_0283.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
