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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![Verso Col. XXXI. (i) ‘ Sisihoout (2) otherwise Armiouth, (3) the god who liveth, the lamp which is (4) lighted, come within (5) before me, and give me answer (6) concerning that which I ask about here (7) to-day.’ Verso Col. XXXIl. (i) To make rave for a man.' (2) You take a live shrew-mouse (?), (3) and take out its gall and put it in one place, (4) and take its heart and put it in another place. You (5) take its whole body, you pound it very much ; (6) when it is dry, you take a little of the pounded stuff with a (7) little blood of your second finger, (that) of the heart, (8) of your left hand, and put it in a cup of wine (9) and you make the woman drink it. Then she has a passion for you. (10) You put its gall into a cup of wine, then she dies (i i) instantly; or put it in meat or some food. (12) You put its heart in a ring of gold and put it (13) on your hand; then it gives you great praise, love, and respect. Verso Col. XXXIII. (i) Horus he was going up a hill at midday in the verdure season, mounted on a white horse on a black horse, (2) the papyrus rolls [of. . .] being on (?) him, those of the Great of Five in his bosom. He found all the gods seated at the place of judgement (3) eating [of the produce ?] of the Nile (?), my (?) Chief. [(jp-jy ?nh, &c. : cf. O. C. in A. Z., 1883, 100; 1900, 90 neTiiHoir iinTOoir ujjiepe n(3'WJUL. For Horus on horseback, cf. Plut., de Is. et Osir., c. 19. 1. 2. hms-l: probably as Ach. gjuLe.cT (as used for infinitive in 1. 6) rather than gcAiCHo-vT. 1. 3. cf. 1. 6 and V. 5/r. A feminine word similarly spelt is found in connexion with embalming in Brugsch, Thes., 893, 895.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29003519_0001_0217.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
