Papyrus with Magic Spells, do you want to know what they said?

A spell is an act that through magic wants to produce an effect on reality using unnatural procedures.The use of spells is one of the most common ways to try to make a spell; when you look for to influence or bend the will of a person or a thing is called enchantment, curse or blessing .At the end of the 19th century, they found themselves in the city of Oxyrhynchus (Oxirrinco) in Egypt a large number of manuscripts in a landfill.Currently many have already been translated and have found several Papyrus with Magic Spells, do you want to know what they were saying?

The Papyrus with Magic Spells of Oxirrinco

In 1897 , in a landfill where they were doing archaeological excavations near the town of Oxirrinco in Egypt, archaeologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt found a multitude of papyri .These were dated between the 1st and 6th centuries. Most of them were written in Latin or Greek, but there were also in Egyptian (both hieroglyphic and demotic or hieratic), Aramaic, Arabic and other common languages s at the time.Once the translations started, it was seen that the texts dealt with very different topics, among them: medicine, censuses, wills, judicial resolutions, horoscopes, religious and literary texts...and some of them contained magic spells .

In these ancient spells Gods and demons were invoked to get love, sex and power. Most of them contain universal formulas to which only had to add the name of the person to whom he wanted to "spell", as we now fill in the blank of a form.Let's see what he put in some of them.

To attract another person , whether for love or sex, what should be done was: «Take a pigeon egg and write in the following if Magical gnos...» to end up saying«... let me love me for all eternity ».

In the image you can see below there is a spell to get a woman's love and the interested party should «burn an offering in the bathhouse...and write the petition with the blood of a triton and paste it in the vaulted and dry room of the bathrooms », what the writing should put was more or less this:« I conjure you...earth and water, for the devil that dwells in you and the fortune of these baths, so that while you burn and burn and cry, you will hug her until she comes to me .»

Papyrus with Magic Spells, do you want to know what they said?

Another spell was to curb the anger of an enemy or the eloquence of a lawyer.He said: "Take a live chameleon and hang it up...smoke it with roots...put a golden and very bright stone into your mouth" then you had to say a universal spell and when I wanted to stop The anger or eloquence of his opponent must press the stone.

Other papyri contain recipes to cure diseases and evils such as boils, polyps and even leprosy.Some of the fragments found They measure less than a cm.and half a million papyri were found, of which more than 5,000 have been translated and classified at present.

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