The book of protection : being a collection of charms, now edited for the first time from Syriac mss / with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations.

Date:
1912
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Credit: The book of protection : being a collection of charms, now edited for the first time from Syriac mss / with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § 4. The Anathema of the Gospel, which is of avail FOR ALL PAINS AND ALL SICKNESSES. In the beginning was the Word: that Word was with God. And this Word was God, and the same was in the beginning with God. And all was by his hand_, and without him there was not one thing (made) of that which was. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. That light is in the darkness: it preventeth it not. By the power of those Ten Words, proceeding from the Lord God, and by the name I Am That I Am, Almighty God, Adonai, Lord of Hosts, may there be distanced and destroyed all the evil and abominable actions of accursed demons, and all their prac- tices, and all opposition, temptations, unclean spirits, and stumbling-blocks, sounds, and creakings, fear and trembling that come to oppose, devices, malice, and evil occurrences, also the effects and bonds of witchcraft, the hot and cold fever, the fever-horror, and the Jewish (fever), [may they be driven] from the body and soul of the one who bears these writs, by the prayer of my Lady, the blessed Mary, and of Mar John the Baptist. Amen ! § 5. The Anathema of Mar George, which is of AVAIL FOR fear AND TREMBLING. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The prayer, request, petition, and supplication of Mar George, the glorious martyr, which he prayed before God, saying:—O Lord, God of Hosts, grant me this request: May the twofold danger be annulled from off the flocks, from the cattle, and from the house of him who beareth these writs. Furthermore, may there be bound the inflammation, the pestilence, and jaundice (?) the sickness of Mosul, by 1 I have here rendered the word QoCXn ‘jaundice’ as an abbreviation of OOxfiOCln. In A, § 26, it seems to be the name of a place known for a certain sickness. The name occurs as that of a town in Egypt, and a similarly sounding name is found on the frontier between Persia and