{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/jms/jms30.htm","path":"jud/jms/jms30.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms30.htm","text":"Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939]\n1. Raziel, 3a, 4a; cf. Gaster, Sword of Moses, 28, 48;\u2014Ms. S. Gematriaot, 36a, 47a, 48b, 57a.\n2. See Thorndike, I, 162; Montgomery, 46 f., 56; Marmorstein, JJV, I (1923), 295.\n3. Shab. 66b; Nishmat \u1e24ayim, III, 25; Landshuth, p. vii; Ta\u2018ame HaMinhagim, I, 46b, \u00a7353; Lauterbach, CCAR Yearbook, XLII (1932), 347 f.; Casanowicz, Journal Amer. Or. Soc., XXXVI (1917), 165, n. 28; cf. Montgomery, 49; Grunwald, MGWJ, LXXVII (1933), 161; Frazer, The Magic Art, I, 65; Lewy, AR, XXIX (1931), 189 ff.\n4. Blau, 147-49; Steinschneider, Cat. Munich, 109, and Grunwald, MGJV, V (1900), 80 ff.; cf. Gaster, op. cit., 35, 42; Wuttke, 183-4; MGWJ, loc. cit.\n5. A. Z. 12b and Rashi; Ta\u2018ame HaMinhagim, II, 44b; Perles, Etym. Studien, 78; Heller, REJ, LV (1908), 69-71; Gaster, Studies and Texts, III, 228; Raziel 33b, 40b; Gollancz, Clavic. Sal., 36.\n6. Shab. 66b.\n7. Blau, 13, 77; Tos. R. H. jib; Rashbam, Pes. 110a; Kaufmann, JQR, OS, IV (1892), 559; Tashbe\u1e93 550; S. \u1e24as. B 59; cf. Elworthy, 404 ff. R. Samuel h. Meir felt that while the fifth cup might be unnecessary so far as fear of demons was concerned, it might still be effective against magic (Rashbam and Tos. Pes. 109b, s. v. Raba).\n8. Testament of Judah, 25, 29-36, 38-40; S. \u1e24as. B 59, 477; Kol Bo 60; etc.\n9. Rashi Shab. 66b; Gaster, Sword of Moses, pp. 35, 38, 43; S. \u1e24as. 377, 815. See Franck, 134 f. and Ginsburg, 148 ff. on the Kabbalistic doctrine of numbers; cf. Aristophanes, The Frogs, trans. by Gilbert Murray, N. Y. 1925, p. 86:\n10. Blau, 73-4, 82; Gaster, op. cit., pp. 36, 37, 39; Shimmush Tehillim, Ps. 4, 19, 22, 121, 125; Raziel, 42a; Perles, Graetz Jubelschrift, p. 28.\n11. S. \u1e24as. B 1153; cf. Singer, Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 353 f.; Wuttke, 90; Grimm, I, 503, 505, III, 469, \u00a7950; L\u00f6winger, Der Traum, 30 f.; Kugler, Hilprecht Anniversary Volume, 308. There are many examples of nine in medieval Jewish magic and superstition; see, e.g., S. \u1e24as. 1468; B 1146; G\u00fcd. I, 117, n. 7, 206, n. 2; Grunwald, MJV, XIX (1906), 114, 116.\n12. E.g., numbers associated with the divine names, as 72 (MJV, XIX [1906] 114); 10, connected with the Ten Commandments (Gaster, Studies and Texts, III, 228; MJV, XIX, 116); 6 (Shimmush Tehillim, Ps. 8, 122), 21 and 24 (MJV, XIX, 1 14); etc.\n13. San. 101a and Rashi; Blau 162 f.; Wellesz, MJV, XXXV (1910), 117; Thorndike, I, 93, 174; Wuttke, 184.\n14. Ta\u2018anit 19a and 23a ff. (Yo\u1e25asin, Fkft. 1924, p. 63, contains a Geonic statement relating Me\u2018agel to a town of that name); \u1e92iyuni 22b; Levita, Tishbi, s. v. Lilit; cf. Daiches, p. 32; Scheftelowitz, Stell. Huhnopfer, ch. 6; De Givry, 104 f.; Knuchel, Die Umwandlung, Basel 1919; Bischoff, 76, 97, 182 ff.\n15. Marmorstein, JJV, I (1923), 283.\n16. He\u1e24alu\u1e93, XII (Vienna 1887), 96; Kerem \u1e24emed VI (Prague 1841), 5; Marmorstein, MGWJ, LXXI (1927), 48; JE, V, 46; G\u00fcd. I, 52-3; Isserles, Yore Deah 340:3 (cf. Krauss, MJV, LIII [1915], P. 18);\u2014Shimmush Tehillim, Ps. 2, 5, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, 37, 92, 109, 119, 125; Raziel, 41b, 42a, 45a; Ms. S. Gematriaot, 56b, 70a. According to Schudt (II, VI, 6:5), Nu. 11:2, written on a bread-crust, was thrown into a fire to extinguish it.\n17. Raziel, 45b;\u2014Frazer, The Magic Art, I, 55 ff.; De Givry, 191 f.; Murray, 116 f.; Lea III, 451 ff.; Grimm III, 420, 430;\u2014Gaster, Sword of Moses, 39, \u00a768; G\u00fcd. I, 207, n. 2.\n18. Ms. S. Gematriaot 27a-b, 55b, 68a, 71b (cf. Daiches, 21);\u2014Grunwald, MGJV, V (1900), 82.\n19. G\u00fcd. loc. cit.; S. \u1e24as. B 1159, 1162; \u1e24ochmat HaNefesh 29d; \u1e92iyuni 5c; Thorndike II, 350.\n20. Samter, 121 ff.; HERE, VII, 747; Blau, 157 f., 164; Marmorstein, JJV, I (1923) 291 ff.; Rashi Shab. 57b; Gandz, Isis, XIV (1930), 194; Gaster, op. cit., 51; Wohlstein 16; Rokea\u1e25 \u00a7316, p. 83a; Nishmat \u1e24ayim III, 18; J. Lipez, 35; cf. Montgomery, 52; Grimm II, 983; Wuttke 461; I. Scheftelowitz, Das Schlingen- and Netzmotiv im Glauben and Brauch der V\u00f6lker, Giessen 1912; cf. also S. \u1e24as. 380, 1162, 1566, 1910; Pa\u2018anea\u1e25 Raza 67a. For the use of asar with this special meaning in older Jewish literature see Targum Jon. Deut. 24:6; Aggadat Bereshit, Introd. 38; L. Ginzberg, Geonica (1909), p. 152.\n21. Grunwald, MGJV, V (1900), 83; MJV, XIX (1906), 108, 110-111. Schudt, loc. cit., reports an interesting instance of sympathetic magic: to put out a fire, one would go to a spot where he could overlook the entire conflagration, and, while slowly reciting Nu. 11:2, pour with each syllable a drop of water into a pan of burning coals.\n22. Tos. Niddah 17a; S. \u1e24as. 683; Lipez 105; cf. Shab. 75b.\n23. Frazer, op. cit., 148 f.; Strack 77 ff.; Wuttke 134 ff.; Scheftelowitz, Stell. Huhnopfer, ch. 9, 12; Grunwald, JJV, I (1923), 19; JE, III, 260;\u2014Raziel 41a; MGJV, loc. cit., MJV, XIX (1906), 112; Pa\u2018anea\u1e25 Raza 86b; cf. Gaster, op. cit., 39, \u00a764, 46, n. 6; Gollancz, op. cit., 25-6. It should be noted that the inclusion of sweat in these prescriptions ran counter to a strong belief that human perspiration (except that of the face) is poisonous (cf. Yore Deah 116:4). On the \"egg laid on a Thursday\" see ch. III, n. 52, above. These lines from Hans\n[paragraph continues] Vintler's Blumen der Tugend (Grimm III, 422) may be compared with the final recipe:\n24. Grunwald, MGJV, V (1900), 25, \u00a714; Perles, Graetz Jubelschrift, 29; Ms. Raziel 31 a-b; cf. Gaster, op. cit., 47, \u00a712. A few like recipes are also to be found in the Talmud; cf. e.g., Ber. 6a: \"If one wishes to see the evil spirits, he must take the afterbirth of a first-born black cat, which is the daughter of a firstborn black cat, burn it and grind it to a powder, and put the ash in his eye.\"\n25. Hadar Zekenim on Ex. 22: 17; Raziel, 3a-b, 6b; Ms. Raziel, 24b f.; cf. Yore Deah 179: 19.","title":"Jewish Magic and Superstition: Notes: Chapter IX","type":"page"}