The book of protection : being a collection of charms, now edited for the first time from Syriac mss / with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations.

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1912
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    the question-answerer, Mar Azad, Mar Buchtazad, Mar Gush- tazad, Mar Simeon of Shenna, Mar Abraham, Mar Georgis the Martyr, and Mar Koriakas (Cyriacus) the Martyr, Mar Augin (Eugenius) and all his order, and Mar Shalita and his order, and Mar Dubina, chief of hermits, and the three hundred of the exalted monastery of Beth Sidra, and Shamuni with her sons, and the poor woman and the two sons of Shushan, Mar Pityon, and Babban Pityon, by the prayers of Gaddi (Caddis), Makbi (Maccabeus), Tarsi (Thassi), Hebron (Avaran),Hebson (Apphus)^, Bacchus and Jonadab^, Eleazar^, and Shamuni the martyr, Phebe^, and Tabitha^, and Ansimus, daughter of kings, Martha and Mary Magdalene”^, and Mar Aha, and Mar *Abd-Ish6*. With these their names, and of those others that exist, I bind, anathematize, expel, and extirpate all abominable actions, revenge, and evil spirits, and all the wiles of cursed devils devoted to destruction from the body and from the soul of A., the son of B. So be it. Amen! § 53. Cutting ^ out the itch (or ^ boil Say the benediction over ashes three times. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. O Itch, brazen serpent! Who is it that showed thee upon the 1 These five are the names of the five sons of Mattathias (see 1 Macc. ii. 1-5). ^ Bacchus and Jonadab are given in Wright’s Cat. of Syriac MSS. in B.M. (p. 547), ‘ written in a later hand on the margin as two of the seven sons of Shamuni, the other five being given as Makbi, Tarsi, Hebron, Hebson, Gaddi (Gedad)—the very names of the sons of Mattathias. 3 2 Macc. vi. 18-31. * Rom. xvi. 1. ® Acts ix. 36. ® Luke x. 38 sqq. ; John xi. 1 sqq. ’ Matt, xxvii. 56 ; Mark xv. 40. * According to one reading; or ‘ I excommunicate ’, according to the other. ® might mean either ‘section’ (of a book) or ‘cutting out’. In modern Syriac signifies a ‘boil’ or ‘button’, ‘sore’ or ‘ itch ’, and is practically identical with ‘ leprosy ’. There may be a