Saturday, April 06, 2019

When amulets come inactivated

THE COPTIC MAGICAL PAPYRI BLOG: Looking at the Coptic Magical Papyri III: Boundary-Crossing Texts.

Sometimes magical texts formatted for practical application come in generic form, as though copied from a handbook, without putting in the name of the client.

I noted the first two posts of this series here.

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