The fate of Evil Eye (1)

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In this Mandaic magical text, the evil eye is crushed “beneath great mountains of stone” which reminds of Ninurta’s battle against Asakku and his army of stones.

Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia:
And Bel, Nebu and Nirig came and found you (= Evil Eye) and stabbed you with their knives and crushed you beneath great mountains of stone. You are confounded and brought to nought, Evil Eye and Dimmed that struck N. son of N. and his sons and daughters and purse and possessions and bull and cows. And they placed you in an iron cooking-pot and cast (you), as it were, in an oven of flaming fire, and you did crackle like salt in a fire. And they brought the iron anvil of a blacksmith: they split you and threw you away like the stone of (rock)salt; and they rained blows on you battering you with a stone. They burst you, pounded you scattered you, divided you, threw you into an ants’ nest, and pounded you with a great iron hammer and with a great axe of exorcisms. A snake shall carry you off for his offspring, and the scorpion to his brood, and the crab to his mate - and she carried you into a cleft with her claws - and the crane with his bill and the kite with his beak.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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