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thou wishest a woman to follow thee, take thy blood and write her name
upon a newly-laid egg and say towards her No. 55.--56. If a man is to follow
thee, take a new potsherd and dip it in black myrrh (gall) and pronounce
over his name the words of No. 56, and walk on without looking backwards.
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- 57. For a tree that does not produce fruits, write the words No. 57 upon a
new potsherd and bury it under the root of the fruitless tree, and water all the
trees and these also which do not produce the fruit. -- 58. For illness (dog) in
the fruit write on a new potsherd No. 58 and bury it in the cistern (watering-
place), and say these words also over water, ashes, and salt, and water the
earth with it. -- 59. For a suckling babe write on an onyx slab No. 59 and
whisper it into its ears three times, spitting out after the whispering; then
repeat them over a cupful of water 70 times and give it the child to drink. --
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0. For one bitten by a rabid dog, write No. 60 on the halter of an ass and let
the ass go; then repeat these words over sesame oil and let him anoint
himself with it and put on new clothes and hang that halter (?) round him. --
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1. For fever and small fever, write on the skin of the brains of a ram or a
goat No. 61, and hang it round his neck. -- 62. If anyone lose his way he is to
say No. 62 over the four corners of his belt (?). -- 63. If thou wishest to ask
anything of thy neighbour, say No. 63 over oil of sesame or of . . . or of . . . -
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64. If thou wishest that a woman is to follow thee write thy name and her
name with thy blood upon her door, and the same upon thy door, and repeat
the words of No. 64.-65. If thou wishest to know whether thy journey will be
lucky, take a field lettuce with open leaves, and standing before the sun say
the words of No. 65 and watch the lettuce: if the leaves close and shut, then
do not go; but if they remain in their natural state, proceed, and thou wilt
prosper. -- 66. If thou wishest to deliver a man from prison (?) say No. 66
once to him, and once to the sun, and once to the prison (?) house. -- 67. To
conquer (collect?), take dust from thy house and say over it seven times in
the road of the town the words of No. 67, and then take dust from the road
and do likewise and throw it into thy house. -- 68. If you wish to kill a man,
take mud from the two sides of the river and form it into the shape of a
figure, and write upon it the name of the person, and take seven branches
from seven strong palm-trees and make a bow from reed (?) with the string
of horse-sinew, and place the image in a hollow, and stretch the bow and
shoot with it, and at each branch (shot) say the words of No. 68; and ‘may
NN be destroyed’ -- 69. To send plagues, take (parings?) from seven men
and put them into a new potsherd, and go out to the cemetery and say there
No. 69, and bury it in a place that is not trodden by horses, and afterwards
take the dust from this potsherd and blow it into his face or upon the lintel of
his house. -- 70. To send dreams to your neighbours, write No. 70 upon a
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