Amulets & Magic

ISBN-13: 9780710307132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

E. A. Wallis Budge

Opis

This remarkable work contains the original texts with translations and descriptions of a series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic, and Muslim amulets and magical devices and figures. Man through the ages has widely held the importance of being able to hold the evil eye at bay.

Spis treści

1. THE UNIVERSAL USE OF AMULETS DUE TO MAN'S BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE OF DEMONS AND EVIL SPIRITS II. ARAB AND PERSIAN AMULETS AND TALISMANS Ill. BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN AMULETS IV. COPTIC AMULETS V. EGYPTIAN AMULETS VI. ETHIOPIAN (ABYSSINIAN) AMULETS VII. GNOSTIC AMULETS VIII. HEBREW AMULETS IX. MANDAEAN (MANDAITIC) AMULETS X. PHOENICIAN AMULETS XI. SAMARITAN AMULETS XII. SYRIAC AMULETS XIII. BABYLONIAN TERRA-COTTA DEVIL-TRAPS XIV. THE RING AMULET XV. STONES AND THEIR PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC QUALITIES XVI. THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR, SHAPE, AND FORM IN AMULETS XVII. THE SWASTIKA OR SVASTIKA XVIII. THE CROSS XIX. THE CRUCIFIX XX. THE EVIL EYE XXI. ~ABBALAH. XXII. ASTROLOGY XXIII. THE 1.'ABBALlSTIC NAMES AND SIGNS, AND MAGICAL FIGURES, AND SQUARES OF THE SEVEN ASTROLOGICAL STARS OR PLANETS. XXIV. THE STARS OR SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC AND THEIR INFLUENCES, THE HOUSES OF HEAVEN AND THE DEKANS XXV. THE STONES OF THE PLANETS AND THEIR INFLUENCES XXVI. THEORIES ABOUT NUMBERS AND THEIR MYSTIC AND SACRED CHARACTER XXVII. DIVINATION XXVIII. DIVINATION BY WATER XXIX. DIVINATION BY MEANS OF THE LIVER OF AN ANIMAL XXX. THE INSCRIBED BRONZE DIVINING DISK OF PERGAMON XXXI. DIVINATION BY EARTH OR SAND (GEOMANCY) XXXII. LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS XXXIII. THE HAND OF FAPMAH. XXXIV. CONTRACTS WITH THE DEVIL. XXXV. ENVOUTEMENT XXXVI. MISCELLANEOUS

O autorze

E.A. Wallis Budge was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum.