Guide
Healing Objects and Apotropaic Items
Related Primary Sources
Primary Source
The Palestinian Talmud on Healing Objects
y. Shabbat 6:10, 8c
One may go out with a locust egg—it is good for the ear. And [one may go out] with a fox’s tooth—it is good for sleep. And [one may go out] with the nail of one who has been hanged—it is good against…
Primary Source
The Babylonian Talmud on Healing Objects
b. Shabbat 67a
One may go out with a locust egg, or with a fox’s tooth, or with the nail of one who has been hanged. [ . . . ]
[Aramaic] One may go out with a locust egg—because it works…