The Dark Wind: Witches and the Concept of Evil
2007, The Dark Wind: Witches and the Concept of Evil
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A survey of witches around the world, their prehistoric origin and how society has viewed them throughout history.
Magic Witchcraft Pagans & Christians A study in the suppression of belief and the rise of Christianity
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Maidens, Matrons, and Magicians: Women and Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt
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Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of material, textual, and literary evidence, the aim of this thesis is to shed light on the realities –rather than stereotypes- of an important aspect of late ancient women’s experience: the use of ritual power. Patterns of gender differentiation in late antique Egyptian magic are investigated and shown to be connected to the particular aims to which numinous powers were employed, aims which were in turn bound up with the social roles expected of each sex. The majority of this study consists of a series of case studies of different types of women’s rituals of power, which emphasize examples of significant trends in ritual iconography, praxis, and context, both those which were typical of late antique Egyptian magic as a whole, and those which were uniquely female in character. The fact that female practitioners came from a wide array of socio-economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds is also addressed.
Jesus the Magician? A Crucifixion Amulet and its Date
2019, Magical Gems in their Contexts: Proceedings of the International Workshop held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16-18 February 2012, eds. K. Edreffy, A. Nagy, J. Spier
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Page Numbers: (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2019), 103-116, plates 6-7.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Magical Gems in their Contexts: Proceedings of the International Workshop held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16-18 February 2012, eds. K. Edreffy, A. Nagy, J. Spier
Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection
2018, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
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O.BYU Mag., a Coptic love spell written continuously over three successive ostraca, consists largely of a narrative in which Horus asks for the help of his mother Isis to win the love of a woman whom he meets in the underworld. It is one of twenty-two known Coptic magical texts that mention Egyptian or Greek deities, and its narrative is paralleled almost exactly in three of these. Dating to the seventh or eighth century CE, it provides important evidence regarding the knowledge and survival of Egyptian deities at a time when Egypt was thoroughly Christian. [Full text available on request]
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