Magical Recipes

These three magical recipes are all preserved on a single rotulus, a scroll that would have been unfurled and read vertically. The first invokes an angel named Qaṭriel in a spell to bind the male organ of an enemy, ritually symbolized by bending a needle into a circle. The second is meant to bring a man and a woman together and involves an adjuration regarding the woman that must be said over a white rooster, which is then torn apart. The adjuration is then written on a piece of tin and placed inside the rooster along with a thread from the man’s clothing and some flour. The rooster is then twisted around and buried. The third instructs the user to mix various liquid substances together and recite a spell over them for the purpose of harming someone. All three recipes invoke angelic names. The translator has supplied the letters NN or N to denote a place where the one performing the ritual would enter the individual names. Ellipses indicate lacunae in the manuscript.