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Amulets and magic : the evil eye in Western Asia, Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia / E.A. Wallis Budge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
- Series:
- Kegan Paul library of arcana
- The Kegan Paul library of arcana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amulets.
- Talismans.
- Physical Description:
- 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Kegan Paul, 2000.
- Summary:
- This remarkable work contains the original texts with translations and descriptions of a series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic, and Muslim amulets and magical devices and figures. Man through the ages has widely held the importance of being able to hold the evil eye at bay.
- Notes:
- "The original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Summerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures, with chapters on the evil eye, the origin of the amulet, the pentagon, the swastika, the cross (pagan and christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbalah, ancient astrology, etc."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0710307136
- OCLC:
- 45307252
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