Volume 1
The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden / edited by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson.
- Date:
- 1904-1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden / edited by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![T91 Verso Col. XVII. (1) A spell to bring [a woman] to a man (and ?) to send dreams, otherwise said, to dream dreams, also. (2) (A line of symbols or secret signs.) (3) You write this on a rush-leaf and you place (it) under your head; you go to sleep; then (4) it makes dreams and it sends dreams. If you will do it to send dreams, you put it (the leaf) on the mouth of a mummy. (5) It brings a woman also ; you write this name on the rush-leaf with the blood of a .... or a hoopoe (?); (6) and you put the hair of the woman in the leaf, and put it on the mouth of the mummy; and you write on the earth with this name, saying; ‘ Bring (7) N. daughter of N. to the house in the sleeping-place in which is N. son of N.’ (8) Now it is also an aycoyifiov. Verso Col. XVIII. (i) ‘ HpoirfiieoTr (2) eRTOTrX*. (3) HppG?^e‘2ki. (4) ‘ Reveal thyself to me, god N., (5) and speak to me concerning that which I shall ask thee, (6) truthfully, without telling me (7) falsehood.’ Saffron, 2 (measures), (8) stibium of Koptos, 2 (measures), (9) pound together with blood of a lizard, (10) make into a ball, and rub it with milk (ii) of one who has born a male child. Put (it) in his right eye; you make invocation (?) to him (?) (12) before any lamp or the ‘Shoulder’ constellation in the evening. Verso Col. XIX. (i) A spell for bringing a woman out of her house. Col. XVIII. 1. 8. *CTHAjinKfiiT* = (TTiixfii KoiTTiKou. Cf. Bfit. Mus. Gk. Pap. XLVI. 67, CXXI. 336 ; Pap. Bibl. Nat. 1. 1071. 1. 10. r/e 71 ms-kwt-. common in Old Egyptian prescriptions. Cf. ydXa dppfvoioKov yvvaiKot, Diosc. V. 99, likewise in connexion with emppi.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29003519_0001_0205.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
