Semitic magic, its origins and development / by R. Campbell Thompson.

  • Reginald Campbell Thompson
Date:
1908
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    (17) Of sorcery. II, 69. “ Hath ho sot his hand to sorcery or witchcraft ?” Cf. note2 on p. 126, to III, 114. Cf. Exod. xxii, 18, “ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live ” ; Lev. xix, 26, “ Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.” Cf. also 31; xx, 6, 27 ; Deut. xviii, 11. (18) Of pointing with the finger. II, 88-93. “ Hath he incurred a tabu by pointing his finger at a person —the person of father or mother, elder brother or sister, friend or neighbour, god or king, master or mistress ? ” III, 16, “ Tabu of pointing at the fire.” Cf. II, 7, “ Hath he pointed his finger . . . P ” (19) Of sunstroke. Ill, 23. “ Tabu from sitting on a seat in the sun.” (20) Of beasts. Ill, 30. “ Tabu against striking the young of beasts.” 42. “[Tabu] of asking a man for wild beasts at the side of a cattle-stall.” Here also add II, 115, 116, “He asketh of domestic and wild beasts,” and for want of a better place; VIII, 40, “From the tabu of having found chance oxen (or) sheep belonging to men and taking them ” ; and III, 35, “Tabu of slaughtering a sheep and touching its riksa (?).” Cf. Lev. xxii, 27, “ When a bullock or a sheep or a goat is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam ” (before being sacrificed); Deut. xxii, 6, “ If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee,” etc. Cf. Sabbath, xix, 1, “If (on the Sabbath) one hunts a wild beast or a bird which one has on one’s domain, it is not a guilty act, but it is a crime to wound them.” Exod. xxiii, 4, “ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again ” ; Deut. xxii, 1, “ Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them.”