A spell for fear (1)

Text
Mandaic Manuscript 45, 46 (Drower Collection):
In the name of Great Life, healing and purity and sealing and arming and the great guard of authority be there for me, N. son of N., from the Life and from “Dwelling-of-Life”, the Healer, lord of healers that heal my soul, so that the Spirit (of) Wailing and the spirit (of) Weeping and the spirit that wails in the night and affrighting spirits were scared off. And she (the spirit of Wailing) was made impotent by the name of the Seven Angels that govern the children of men and cure them from pains and infirmities, and the Evil Eye, and persistent fever and dampness (perspiration?), and Weakness, sister of Death, so that she shall flee away and be rendered harmless by the vaunted name of Jesu Christ, son of the Remover. He is the healer of the souls of boy-child and girl-child, and removes the troublesome spirit and diarrhoea and weakness from boy-child and girl-child by the name of Qass Damad and chases them away to cure him and makes (them) fly, yea, he made (them) flee. S––a. This, a spell (for) fear, is of Hibil (Ziwa) it is for a child that cries and has nightmare. Write and fasten to thee, on thy neck. There will be relief. S––a.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Mandaic Manuscript 45 (Drower Collection)
Mandaic Manuscript 46 (Drower Collection)

Bibliography

Amar Annus

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0000871.php