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Mar. 14] SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCIL^^OLOGV.

Mar. 14] THE FOLKLORE OF MOSSOUL.

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[1906. it on the hole of the heart, and this heart thou shalt hide in a
place of evil, that it may rot, and that enemy may also rot and
come to an end. And this is what thou shalt write : " Hasdiel
Hahkiel Hamiel Harsel Hamamel Haluel Israel El Birketha
Birketha Birketha Sickness, Sickness, Sickness, thou shalt come,
thou shalt come, thou shalt come upon mine enemy, N., son of N."

No. 9. For extreme hate. " Take a stone which a dog hath bitten,
and make it pass between them, and cast the stone into water; and
every day shall there be hatred. And if thou wishest that there
should be extreme hatred, cast the stone into a dovecote, and they
shall not be left together in one place, for one shall go one way and
the other another for the greatness of the hate.
No. 10. For hate. " Thou shalt take dust from seven graves, and say
over it seven times these names: "In the name of Asniael, Yahmael,
L'ael, Tesel, Lil, Nuriel, Usiel, Usenaniel " Ye angels, speedily
shall ye bring down hatred and envy and enmity and contention
and strife and great hostility between all the household and N., son
of N., that they may hate each other with a great and strong hatred
and bitter enmity of heart and soul henceforth and for ever." And
thou shalt cast it into the house of thine enemy.
No. II. To kill, so that the devils shall smite him. " Td%e a stone
and throw it to a dog which shall bite it, and on it write these
names and throw it into the house of thine enemy, and thou shalt
see wonders when they smite him, and it may be that he will be

No. 16. To kill the enemy. " Write these seals on a new potsherd
and wash (them) off in water, and sprinkle it in the house of the
enemy on the second night of the week or the fourth of the week at
the seventh hour.
And this is what thou shalt write: {see Plate I, fig3).
No. 17. Another to kill him. " Take a hollow bone of a dead man
and take of (thine enemy's) excrement and put a little " living "
silver, an(lput the whole into the bone aforementioned, and bury it
in the enSny's house.
No. 18. Another, that he should fall sick and be incontinent. " Take
a hollow thigh-bone and put some of the dust whereon he hath
made water with " living " silver, and seal it up carefully, and bury

afraid and die. And this is what thou shalt write: {see Plate I, fig.
2).

it in the river underneath the water, and as the water passeth over it
thou shalt see wonders.

No. 12. Another. " Take dust from the grave of a murdered man
who hath been slain with iron, and take water from three wells
which cannot see each other, and knead the dust with the water
and make it into a cake and throw it into the house of thine enemy,
and say: "As this lord of the dust was slain, so may be slain N., the
son of N., and he shall not complete his year." (Proved and
certain.)

No. 19. Another. " Make a plate of red copper and write on it these
names, and wash (them) off in water and pour it out at the door of
his house. And this is what thou shalt write : "Ir Izir Kit Tat Sathan
Minni Y'me Ebel Astan Bat A' Nitan Ya'anihu Amen." No. 20. To
destroy an enemy. " Write on the first day at the third hour of the
day upon a bit of limestone, these names; and then let him burn the
stone with these that thou shalt write : " Nemael Lahabiel Zeru'iel
Ahabiel Yahariel Mariel Amiel Wahabiel Uriel Seraphiel, Seraphs
that stand above him, that ye may destroy the enemy, N., son of
N., to Maher-salal-has-baz." Or bury these names in an old grave
(and this is proved and certain).

No. 13. Another: to drive him forth so that he shall go from place
to place. " Take dust from seven ovens and read over it these
names, and pour the aforesaid dust into his house; and this is what
thou shalt read : "Taphtir Siztah Koti Kot Kophtitah Kab Teni'ah
Sat Hatot Wiph Titah." And it shall l)e successful by the help of
God.
No. 14. For a 71 efiemy. " Write on a piece of new cloth at even
time and bury it on his roof and there shall come on him great
sickness and he shall not be healed, till he die or the roof fall in.
And this is what thou shalt write : " Kal Yabhah Katho Pedin
Bidad
Karbad Kah Perek Bihnam Haka Lsa'ah Lsa'ah."
No. 15. Another for a foe. " Take the heart of a lamb and put
needles (in it), and also shalt thou write in the heart's blood and put

No. 21. For war. " Take dust from under thy left foot and say over
it these names and scatter it against them (the enemy) and they
shall no more be able to make war; and this is what thou shalt say:
"In the name of Loki Yoel Antsel. (Another book) Antsel and
Mehothiel Yoy Hia Abniel Ahamnel Yiol Wahi Yokiel Miskathiel
Yah " by your purity that ye may bind all kinds of fighting for. . .