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

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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$serpents: of the speckled serpent_, the red serpent^ the black serpent, and the white serpent, the offspring* of deaf serpents. And the serpent went and adorned herself; she prevented and joined the body of the peacock ^ ; she prevented by cunning*, which has exercised itself thenceforth and unto all eternity. Amen! § 38. Binding the scorpions. Put together the two scorpions : (then say):—Thou art sealed, bridled, and stopped by the two angels Gabriel and Michael. I bind the mouth of the scorpions by the staff of Moses the Prophet, by the mantle of Elisha by the ascent of Elijah, and by the ring of Solomon bar Jaki Amen ! § 39. As REGARDS CATTLE, THAT THE EviL EyE SHALL NOT TOUCH IT In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. [I said] to the seven accursed brothers, sons of the evil and accursed man: ^ Whither are you creeping along on your knees, and moving upon your feet, and crawling upon your hands ? ^ The wicked sons of the wicked and accursed man replied : ^ We are creeping along on our knees, walking upon our hands, and moving upon our feet, so that we may eat flesh, and drink [blood] in our palms.^ And when I saw them, 1 Vide Introduction (Weil’s Biblical Legends—‘The Peacock and the Serpent ’). It is interesting in this connexion to compare the Rabbinic interpretation of Gen. vi. 7 in the Midrash, Bereshith Rabba, § 28 (towards the end) :— nbn nbn nnn )b\>bp bn iSno n^n bnnni p^^in. 2 Cf. Codex B, § 5. For rt!l^Z.CVX« see Noldeke’s Syriac Grammar (Eng. Edit., p. 58). 3 See Introduction. ^ Cf. Cod. B, § 10.$