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Tag: magic
238 records found
An amulet in quirky Arabic script. The main section is Quran 3:18.
Interesting Arabic fragment with text arranged in a table, with many names of God invoked. Magical?
Leaf from an Arabic literary work on the magical virtues of the Arabic letters, and how to write them in various potent arrays (illustrated). For instance, ʿayn can restore lost objects, and ghayn can quenche thirst.
Arabic magical fragment with text in different directions, invocations of names of God, and several red grids filled with numbers and/or symbols and/or words.
Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.
Magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic, e.g. for getting pregnant or healing a scorpion sting.
Very faded, perhaps magical incantations? Mentions angels' names, demons, plague, quotes Song of Songs 8:7.
A very large magical fragment with copious Coptic text and scattered phrases in (poor) Greek. Thanks to Professor Maria Mavroudi for identifying the languages, and to the Coptic Magical Papyri project for a detailed description and partial translation of this fragment, available at http://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/2019/04/05/looking-at-the-coptic-magical-papyri-iii-boundary-crossing-texts/. It is a formulary-cum-amulet to protect the pregnant woman Soura daughter of Pelca and her children. ASE.
An unusually neat and pristine amulet (possibly late, possibly never used) for the healing and protection of Eliyyahu b. Sarah.
Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.
Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise containing magical instructions (ʿazā'im) including for summoning Sar ha-Torah to grant your wishes and for ḍarb al-mandal ('prophesying while contemplating a mirror-like surface').
Amulet in Arabic script. It is even dated at the bottom; 16 Ṣafar [?]25.
Amulets or magical recipes, at least partially for curing various physical ailments, in Arabic.
Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an egg, writing something 49 times on it which leads to someone's birth in hell. Needs further investigation.
Amulets or magical recipes in Arabic.
Magical/medical recipes in Arabic.
Magical instructions in Arabic.
Magical instructions in Arabic.
Recto: A recipe in Arabic script (bāb yanfaʿ li. . . . yusḥaq. . . yukhlaṭ. . .), written in two different hands or at least with two different calami. Verso: Magical diagrams including an illustration of a bird, with captions in Arabic script.
A Judaeo-Arabic magical spell of some kind, probably malevolent, for "binding" somebody. The female victim's name is meant to be filled in in lines 5/6. After which, "no one will release her, neither man nor woman, neither jinn nor jinniyah." Then there's something about "his hands before his feet." Then, again, "nothing will release her... neither moon nor dawn... until the rabbit is milked (?)." ASE.
