{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/jms/jms33.htm","path":"jud/jms/jms33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms33.htm","text":"Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939]\n1. Eleazar of Worms, Commentary on S. Ye\u1e93irah, 6c; S. \u1e24as. B 1149; Tishbi, s. v. bulmos;\u2014G\u00fcd. I, 213; Raziel, 15a;\u2014Ma\u1e25. Vit. 501;\u2014Rashi on Ps. 103:5; Ginzberg, Legends, V, 51, n. 151; G\u00fcdemann, Religionsgesch. Studien, Leipzig 1876, 55-63.\n2. Samson of Sens on Kilayim VIII, 5 (the man-plant is identified with the adne or abne hasadeh of Job. 5:23, and the Yadu\u2018a, an animal employed in magic rites; Rashi, San. 65a), repeated in Semag, I, 39; ms. Et \u1e24ayim, 991 (580 of original). See E. Fink, MGWJ, LI (1907), 173-82; L. Ginzberg, A. Schwarz Festschrift (1917), 329-33 (\"Der Grundzug dieser Legende, die Pflanze, deren Ber\u00fchrung Tod bringt ist j\u00fcdisch und sehr alt. . . . Sehr jung dagegen und wahrscheinlich germanischen Ursprunges\u2014findet sich daher nur bei den deutschfranz\u00f6sischen Autoren\u2014ist die Umwandlung der todbringenden Pflanze in einen 'vegetabilischen Menschen,' die Raschi noch unbekannt ist\"; p. 331), and Legends, V, 50, n. 148 and VI, 123, n. 720; cf. Thorndike, I, 597, 626, II, 142, III, 484, 566; Grimm, II, 1006 f.; Wuttke, 102-3; Frazer, Folk-Lore in the O.T., II, 377 ff.\n3. On the \"barnacle goose\" see these essays in which the literature is discussed in detail: I. L\u00f6w, Flora, IV, 347 ff.; Zimmels, Min\u1e25at Bikkurim (Vienna 1926), 1-9; JE, II, 538 ff.; JJV, II (1925), 349; Ginzberg, Legends, V, 51, n. 150; cf. Jacobs, Jews of Angevin England, 54, 92; Thorndike, I, 491, II, 200, 386, 464-5.\n4. Shab. 107b; \u1e24ul. 127a; Tos. Shab. 12a; Rabiah, I, 327, \u00a7236; HaTerumah, 80b, \u00a7217, 218; Ma\u1e25. Vit. 123, \u00a76 (cf. G. Schlessinger, Die altfranz\u00f6sischen W\u00f6rter im Machsor Vitry, Mainz 1899, p. 35); Raben, 60; Responsa of Meir of Rothenburg (Lemberg), 160; Moses Taku, O\u1e93ar Ne\u1e25mad, III, 78, 82; Or\u1e25ot \u1e92adikim, 95a;\u2014Leket Yosher, I, 104; S. \u1e24as. B 1153; Tashbe\u1e93, 553; Responsa of \u1e24ayim Or Zarua, 146; S. \u1e24as. B 589; \u1e92iyuni, 48a; \u1e24ochmat HaNefesh, 14e; Rashi and Tos. Shab. 54b; Or Zarua, II, 19a, \u00a783.\n5. S. \u1e24as. 1471; Thorndike, III, 34, 238.\n6. S. \u1e24as. 44, 49, 71, 798, 1,61; Rabiah, I, 248, \u00a7197; Maharil, 44b; Lev Tov, ch. 10, p. 102b; Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim 608:4. Garlic, in particular, enjoyed high repute as an aphrodisiac in the ancient world; see I. L\u00f6w, op. cit., II, 144. Maharil, loc. cit., refers to Erd\u00e4pfel (this was at the turn of the fifteenth century,\nlong before potatoes were introduced in Europe) which I have translated \"melons\"; see Grimm, Deutsches W\u00f6rterbuch, s. v.\n7. Blau. 76-7; JE, IX, 301; Rokea\u1e25, \u00a7317, pp. 85a, b, \u00a7318, p. 88b; Responsa of Meir of Rothenburg (Cremona), \u00a7124; Lev Tov, 101a; Isserles, Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim 88:1. The concluding quotation is from \u1e92iyuni, 50d; see also ibid. 50e.\n8. Nid. 38a; S. \u1e24as. 955, 1909; Lev Tov, 102b; \u2018Emek Beracha, II, 52, pp. 62a-b, Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim, 240:7.\n9. Nid. 16b; Pes. 112b; Blau, 55, 56; Rokea\u1e25, \u00a7317, p. 86b; Joseph Ome\u1e93, \u00a7190, 191, p. 43.\n10. Ned. 20a; Sheb. 18b; S. \u1e24as. 952, 1908; Lev Tov, 100c-d; Mitvat HaNashim, ch. 65, 66; Gr\u00fcnbaum, J\u00fcdischdeutsche Chrest., 273-4, 276; \u1e92iyuni, 15a.\n11. Rokea\u1e25, \u00a7317, p. 86b; \u1e92iyuni, 78a; Abrahams, Ethical Wills, II, 209; Mitvat HaNashim, ch. 64; Gaster, Ma\u2019aseh Book, I, 242-3, II, 648-9; cf. Pa\u2018anea\u1e25 Raza, 133b; Thorndike, I, 177, IV, 136.\n12. Ginzberg, Legends, V, 55, VI, 206; Scheftelowitz, AR, XIV (1911), 376 ff.; Krauss, MJV, LIII (1915), 20; Shab. 111a; Feb. 65b; S. \u1e24as. 1918;\u2014Gaster, Studies and Texts, III, 229-30; G\u00fcd. I, 216.\n13. Nid. 31a; Ber. 60a; Hadar Zekenim and Da\u2018at Zekenim on Ex. 1:16 and Lev. 12:2; Mena\u1e25em Recanati, Ta\u2018ame HaMi\u1e93vot, 13b. and Commentary on the Pentateuch, beg. of Tazri\u2018a; Pa\u2018anea\u1e25 Raza, 87a; cf. Thorndike, II, 767.\n14. Hadar Zekenim on Ex. 1:16; S. \u1e24as. B 1141; Lev Tov, 100d; G\u00fcd. I, 212; in this last-mentioned place may be found a passage from Konrad von Megenberg which offers a striking parallel to the \"signs\" of Eleazar of Worms; cf. also Thorndike, I, 177, II, 329, 744, etc.\n15. Maharil, 85a; ibid., 24b; cf. Nid. 27a; Feb. 80b; Thorndike, III, 237, 238.\n16. Hor. 13b; S. \u1e24as. 1503; Ma\u1e25. Vit. 720; Tashbe\u1e93, 287, 558; Maharil, 86a; Leket Yosher, I, 45, II, 6, 15; Joseph Ome\u1e93, pp. 45, 273, 343, 354; Parallels to these beliefs may be found among other peoples, cf. I. Goldziher, \"Muhammedanischer Aberglaube \u00fcber Ged\u00e4chtnisskraft und Vergesslichkeit, mit Parallelen aus der j\u00fcdischen Litteratur,\" Berliner Festschrift, 131-55; Grimm, III, 834, \u00a7463 and n. 1; Wuttke, 315.\n17. Ma\u1e25. Vit. 720; Tashbe\u1e93 557; S. \u1e24as. Tinyana, 11a; Joseph Ome\u1e93, \u00a7575, p. 123; Isserles, Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim 260:1; \u2018Emek Beracha, II, 53, P. 64a; Yesh No\u1e25alin, 26a, n. 35; cf. Gr\u00fcnbaum, Ges. Auf., 423, 424; Goldziher, op. cit., 133; L\u00f6w, Die Finger, p. xxii; JE, IX, 149; also Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim 179:6.\n18. Ma\u1e25. Vit., pp. 115-6; Siddur Rashi, \u00a7523, p. 261; G\u00fcd. I, 53; Grunwald, MJV, XIX (1906), 118; cf. Heller, REJ, LV (1908), 69 ff., and Krauss, ibid., LVI (1908), 253-4,\u2014Joseph Ome\u1e93, \u00a773, P. 17; Lebush on Ora\u1e25 \u1e24ayim, 299: to; Ki\u1e93ur Shelah, 134;\u2014Goldziher, op. cit., 140 ff.; HB, VII (1864), 100, XIV (1874), 58; I. L\u00f6w, Die Flora der Juden, I, 203 f.","title":"Jewish Magic and Superstition: Notes: Chapter XII","type":"page"}