Magical Booklet

I went up the mountains, and I went down the mountains, and I turned to the hills; I saw three angels, whose names are Gabriel and Uziel and Shoshiel. They said to me, NN, Who overturned the m[ou]ntains that you overturned and the hills that you turned to? I said to them, I, NN, since I wanted the mystery of love from NN. Let him raise his eyes to heaven and he shall se[e]‌ the mystery of love from NN, Amen Amen Sela. [ . . . ]

This mystery is appointed for NN, that he should raise his water pipe and draw his bucket and drip his drop in NN, in the name of BYMH NṢṬWRYNW ḤSPWṬ ‘YDNN’ MS‘LYMṬS L’PLYṬWS A[men] A[men] S[ela]. Precious oil, precious oil, oil boiled in jasmine; noblemen smeared it on their necks; noblewomen, on their pudenda[?]‌, contentious women on the circles of their navels; the troop on the [???] of its servants smeared it. NN, in front of the house of love[?] of the town; and furthermore, from their meat let them [give me to] eat and from their cup let them give me to drink, what I say they let them say and what I hear let them hear. A[men] A[men] S[ela]. Say at the beginning of the month when it is the second [day] of the month and one of its other days, first of all, sa[y] seven times, each day three times. From the gloom of gloominess you came out, from the great place of darkness; the evil spirit Anpharid, which is sent by charms; you shall ru[n] like a deer, you shall fly like a wind, and you shall fall upon NN; like the three angels which are sent in the clouds of hail, and thus they are called: Aglit and Maglit and Hadar Galat; ascend to the high heavens and break the axe from Bel and the hatchet from Barbel[?], and they will turn back like an eagle and turn back against NN. In your name ’YW’Y PY DWN ’YW’Y ’WRP ’WRP ’H ’W W’Y ’YP’ W’YP PNT PNT ’NBY’ ’PNT PNT W’P W’P ’WRP ’WRP. Say over dust from under a corpse, and put it in an amulet and hang it on a bird and let it fly and say over it: Just as this bird flutters, so shall the heart of [fem.] NN flutter after NN, A[men] A[men] S[ela]. For love: I have love, it is mine SSGR MGMR, holy angels who sit under the cauldron[?] of fire of the [heavenly] Temple, to bind and to loosen, that [fem.] NN shall come after NN with her mouth open and her saliva dripping and her eyes open but not seeing, in the Name of . . . [ . . . ]

Do [it] for your Name, for the sake of [your name]. This amulet is appointed for the name of NN, that you may open his foolish heart to all words of the Torah, that he shall hear and learn, and all that he learns he shall not forget. [ . . . ] I conjure you and adjure you, and place an oath upon you, that you will open my heart, me NN, and you will make [it] wise for Torah, and you will remove the foolishness of the heart from the heart of me, I, NN, and you will see/make seen and open my heart, I, NN, like the heart of Metatron and like the heart of Moses son of Amram, and teach me the six columns of the Tal[mud] in six[?]‌ years, and I will run in them like a deer that runs in the desert and guard in my belly all that I learn, and what I learn from this day and forever, and teach me words of Torah and wisdom, so that everything that I will hear I will learn at once. And you shall not delay this oath and this adjuration, and by the name of YH HW •H WH WH HW HY KYN HYHYH YH WH YH HH YH YHW •• HY HH WH HYW HYH YH WH. Blessed is the name of the honor of his [king]dom forever and ever. Furthermore, I adjure you and decree upon you and place an oath upon you, that you shall deliver me, I, NN, from all evil demons and from demons, whether demons of the day or demons of the night, and all demons and demons which stand before me, I, NN, smite them in the name of these letters by which I adjured y[ou] and by the name HWH YH YH HW HH HYW HW HH HY YH WH WHW HH YH YH YHW HY forever. Sealed and counter-sealed [is] NN from demons and spark-demons and harmers and devils and evil spirits, [whether male] or female, whether of the day or of the night, and from demons and devs and Liliths and from idol-spirits and from the rooftop-demons and from the sixty-six [demons] which are in the world. All who stand before me, I, will be killed by a great killing, just as were killed the seven daughters of the gods and the eight daughters of the female ishtars. By the name of HY HY HWH HY HH HW HH YH HY HH WH HY HW HH WH YH YHW HY the eternal[?] A[men] A[men] S[elah] YHH WYH YH HH HH YW HW HH WH WH HW YH WH WYHH KYN ṬM’. This adjuration. Say[?] [it] 23 [or, on 3?] Fridays, before dusk just as??? [when he heats an oven?] when the day sets and he should immerse [himself in] water, and come out[?] from the dawn of the Friday, and he should sit in fasting for three Fridays, and keep away from sexual intercourse.

Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MS Or. Sim. 6.