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.