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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![Balkham, the mighty (?) one of heaven, (8) Ablana- thanalba, gryphon of the shrine of the god which stands to-day {?).’ Verso Col. XXVIII. (i) You shall cause a star(?) to go . . . place (?) under the earth (?) (2) when the moon is in the constellation of Scorpio. Verso Col. XXIX. (1) [Spell to] make mad any man or any woman. (2) You take the hair of the man whom you wish, together with the hair (3) of a dead (murdered ?) man ; and you tie them to each other, (4) and tie them to the body of a hawk, and you release (?) it (5) alive. If you wish to do it for some days, (6) you put the hawk in a place and you feed it in your house. Verso Col. XXX. (i) If you dung of a S99iotme-goose, (2) then her body falls. (3) Another: you anoint your phallus with dung of (4) a kel, and you lie with (the) woman, then she feels thy love (i.e. for thee). (5) You pound dung of with honey, (6) and you anoint your phallus with it as above aorain. o (7) Another: dung of hyaena (?) with ointment of (8) roses as above again. (9) Another: you fumigate a woman with ichneumon’s dung (10) when the menstruation is on her; then she is cured. (ii) Ass’s dung also—this method (of treatment). Col. XXIX. 1. 5. « hyn'W hiv-w. Does this mean ‘ for several days ' or ‘ after several days'? Col. XXX. 1. 2. hy he-l-s : perhaps of abortion, gorge : or^Se.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29003519_0001_0215.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
