How to Nail Your Enemies: Ancient Egyptian Spells Deciphered
Australian researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spells.
Among other things, the "Handbook of Ritual Power" tells readers how to cast love spells, exorcise evil spirits and treat "black jaundice," a bacterial infection that is still around today and can be fatal.
The book is about 1,300 years old, and is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language. It is made of bound pages of parchment — a type of book that researchers call a codex.
"It is a complete 20-page parchment codex, containing the handbook of a ritual practitioner," Macquarie University's Malcolm Choat and the University of Sydney's Iain Gardner write in their book, "A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power" (Brepols, 2014).
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