Sorceries and malefic
A recent finished archaeological
discovery to Tebe, show in unexpected way what importance also politics was
attributed to the magic rituals. It deals with a heap of crocks of vases back,
it looks like, to the period of the XI dynasty, testimony of a magic ritual
more times renewed and that it is compiled as it follows: on a big number
of vases, amphoras cups, the names of all the people were transcribed that
could be dangerous for the Faraone, his children, the dignitaries, accompanied
by precise indications on their identity and recorded with an order meticulously
maintained according to the countries of origin, so that the gods and the
spirits entrusted of to strike you/they could easily find again them to them
without possibility of misunderstanding; for last the most dangerous enemies
were listed, those insides, titular of important positions, they have called
for name and of them it is expressly said that they will have to die: this
deadly fate will get depressed not on them as soon as the magician will have
broken the vase on which their names were written. The sorcery is applied
strengths impersonal malefic hips in tail to the list of the human enemies
the scribe you/he/she has added all the words malvagie to which follows the
insulting words, outrageous, the wicked thoughts, the wicked intrigues, the
malvagies struggles, the wicked intentions; all the bad dreams. They are not
only the enemies of the Faraone to be the victims of the practices of black
magic, they didn't even escape you the gods. An interesting document preserved
to the museum of the Louvre, gives a precise idea on the methods to employ
for demolishing the wicked divinity Seth, the assassin of Osiride and the
persecutor of his child Horus, here is the procedure: To bring a figurine
of red wax that represents Seth. On the breast of this, to write his/her name:
Seth, the miserable one, then with the fresh ink, to reproduce this name on
a leaf of papyrus virgin. To knot a drawstring of red wool around the figurine
and to pronounce on this the following formula: "Attached, attached or
you that are loads of ropes! Hold hard, hold hard, or you that are loads of
drawstrings! Seth, child of Nut, that miserable enemy, as his allies are in
your power. He has made the evil, he has acted with violence. And' for pure
malice that violence has appropriated of its spirit. He has not succeeded
in winning, in the abdomen of his mother, he who, being the Most greater,
he had already received the crown before having put to the world and fact
king; he has conceived even the evil before going out of the maternal abdomen.
He has still created the disorder before having a name. Make to revert the
evil on he who has invented him! What he who have plotted suffers the consequences
of his/her misdeeds! ". To spit four times on the figurine and to pronounce
the appropriate formula to inflict stabs pronouncing the formula that is worthwhile.
To pierce through her with an arrow and to pronounce the appropriate formula
to inflict stabs pronouncing the prescribed formula. To spit again quite a
lot times on the figurine when she burns in the fire and to recite the proper
formula. At the end of the magic ceremony, to say the following text that
is the conclusion of it: You come; Osiride, gentleman of Busiras. Khentamentyiu,
big god, sovereign of Abydos! It looks at the brought success that day. The
Faraone has destroyed your enemies and he has done him for you. He has conducted
Seth in front of you, a chained Seth, wounded to the arms, stricken to the
legs. The eye sacred vigil on his gentleman. The miserable Seth, tied up solidly
it is in the hands of Horus of Manu. In a particular papyrus the description
of an operation of black magic is found destined to make to go crazy any man
or woman: It is enough to take some hair of the person against which you want
to act. Unite them to those of a corpse; mix together well them and you wind
the lock so gotten with a solid string. It attaches then this lock to the
body of a hawk and leave him, to freely fly. When you will have decided to
practise this spell, you will have to pick up the hawk a lot of days before,
to hold him in the house and to feed him. In the same papyrus it is contained
a formula employed in black magic for the bridegroom of a woman to make impotent.
The sorcery in matter is suitable with the term of binding: You pick up two
fishes before is bled; grind them in the water where you will previously have
dipped an iron chain. To the anknow of the man, sprinkle him with the liquid
so gotten; from that moment, it won't be him more possible to free herself
some binding. This must have done during the fifth day of the moon shining.