The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

is described as comprising young men and young women. But overall, in our texts, the bewitched is male, though I have no doubt t ...

in water and their remains buried. The ritual is performed either at sunrise or at sunset. In sum, statues of the witch are rais ...

and expulsion of the witch. The witch is destroyed by fire and water; these symbolic acts of burning and drowning are performed ...

Who decides lawsuits like (= in the stead of) Sin and Sˇamasˇ– Judge my case, hand down my verdict. Burn my warlock and my witch ...

May the son of Ea, the exorcist, scatter your cohort. May the smoke of Girra cover your face, Like an oven through your cracks, ...

To my body near not! On my body abut not! By the life of Sˇamasˇ, the honorable, be adjured! By the life of Ea, lord of the deep ...

Division three With the coming of morning the patient washes himself repeatedly; this is the primary rite in this division. Subs ...

the beliefs and accusations, moreover, are barometers of personal and societal tensions and indicators of problems and conflicts ...

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PART VI INTELLECTUAL LIFE Cuneiform writing and learning  ...

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN INCANTATIONS WITHIN AKKADIAN MEDICAL TEXTS  M. J. Geller T he use of magical incantations within Akkadia ...

these formal grounds, although we will include them in this survey because they are thematically related to the subject matter. ...

been attributed to supernatural causes, such as demonic attack ultimately resulting from the patient’s guilt of sin. There is mu ...

possibility is that the healer may have thought that an appeal to Gula, the goddess of healing, or even a meaningless mumbo-jumb ...

(usually in Akkadian) which appear within the medical corpus. One assumption is that, since these different types of incantation ...

simply because of casual contact, such as eating and drinking together. Incantations to rid victims of such ghosts often involve ...

to practical matters of childbirth. Once these incantations have been incorporated into the medical corpus, the main focus shift ...

which opens their ‘gate’ for you, it has planted offspring, it has planted offspring. Incantation-spell. (Worthington 2005 : 13 ...

(flatulence) (Foster 1993 : II 858 ; Cadelli 2000 : 84 ), which is addressed to flatulence: ‘O wind, wind, you are the hot wind ...