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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

A sorcerer's cache on the road to Mecca?

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Magic on the Road to Mecca. Cache of Ottoman period ritual objects discovered in Eilat (Nathan Steinmeyer).

Every religion has its unofficial folk magical traditions.

I have been following this story for a while. It involves Israel, but not antiquity or Judaism, so I haven't noted it until now. But I've decided to file it as "too interesting to ignore."

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