Prescriptions and Incantations

For boils, one should say: BZBZYH MSMSYH KSKSYH ShDL’Y and ’SKL’Y these are the angels who were sent from the land of Sodom [in order] to heal boils and pain BZK BZYK KMN KMYN KMYN KMN your eyes in you, your eyes in you, your place in you, your place in you. May your seed be like the land of Sodom, and like a eunuch and like [one who is] barren, and like a mule that is not fruitful and does not multiply, so too, do not increase and do not multiply in the body of NN son of NN.

For pain, one should say: A drawn sword and a prepared sling, your name is not sobbing, sickness, and pains.

For a demon, one should say: ḤYWT DPQYQ ḤYWT cursed, broken and banned, son of clay son of impure in the name of MRGYZ MWRYPT and ’STTMTY.

For the Toilet Demon, one should say: On the heads of lions and on the nostrils of cubs you found the demon son of Shirika Panda. In the bed of leeks, I hit him, and with an ass’s jawbone I struck him.

Source: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, MS Mich. 366

Translated by Simcha Gross and Avigail Manekin.