Category Archives: Health & Healing

Scriptural Amulets

Originally posted on Ertegun House:
Preserved by the dry desert sands of Egypt, innumerable manuscript fragments written on parchment and papyrus have been discovered by archaeologists since the eighteenth century. Largely recovered from the rubbish heaps, these ancient documents provide…

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Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages

Originally posted on Aliens in This World:
This is the sort of book that I’d really really like to get my hands on. Unfortunately, it’s a bit expensive (40 bucks even in paperback), so I’ll have to look around to…

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Hecate: More Cognitive Dissonance

Originally posted on Sol Ascendans – The Website of Alex Sumner:
Line-drawing of a recently re-discovered Defixion or curse tablet. A slow day on Planet Sumner today, which is why I was forced into reading the Daily Mail, where lo…

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Curse dolls

Found in a jar along with an inscribed tablet, this Curse Doll is now at the Louvre. Voodoo dolls were around even in ancient Greece.  Above is an example of a Curse Doll. Called  by the Greeks, the arms and legs … Continue reading

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Just another shoe in the wall

When Cinderella lost a shoe, the psychologists said: Ah, you know what that means! Because Freud claimed that the shoe is a symbol for female genitals (the foot that penetrates the shoe kind of thing). That’s why, when a couple … Continue reading

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