Thursday, April 14, 2011

Did they actually believe this?

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Duane Smith: Did They Actually Believe This?

Note my comment, which leads to a post of mine that deals with the subject of invisibility in ancient Judaism etc.

I've sometimes wondered the same about the spells in the Greek Magical Papyri for interrogating corpses (PGM IV.2140-44) and making a zombie (PGM XIII.278-82).