Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt

The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden: Transla...

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(1) A potion. You take a little shaving of the head of a man who has died a violent death, (2) together with seven grains of barley that has been buried in a grave of a dead (?) man; you pound them with ten oipe, (3) otherwise nine, (of) apple-seeds (?); you add blood of a worm (?) of a black dog to them, with a little (4) blood of your second finger, (that) of the heart (?), of your left hand, and with your semen (?), and you (5) pound them together and put them into a cup of wine and add…

The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden: Transla...

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