TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gager,John G.
TI  - Curse tablets and binding spells from the ancient world
SN  - 9780198022770
AV  - BF1558 .C87 1992eb
U1  - 133.4/4 22
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Incantations
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Magic
KW  - history
KW  - Bénédiction et malédiction
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Occultism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Anthologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Magie
KW  - Zauberspruch
KW  - Fluch
KW  - Fluchtafel
KW  - Antike
KW  - Zegenspreuken
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vervloekingen
KW  - Magie gréco-romaine
KW  - ram
KW  - Rome
KW  - Tablettes à écrire
KW  - Antiquité
KW  - Bénédictions et malédictions
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Altertum
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - Magic (Occultism)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Original title: Curse tablets and binding spells from antiquity and the ancient world; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Competition in theater and circus -- Sex, love, and marriage -- Tongue-tied in court: legal and political disputes -- Businesses, shops, and taverns -- Please for justice and revenge -- Miscellaneous tablets -- Antidotes and counterspells -- Testimonies; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings
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