The Witchcraft Series Maqlu

Tzvi Abusch
Society of Biblical Literature
9781628370829
1-62837-082-3

The Akkadian series Maql, Burning, is one of the most significant and interesting magical texts from the Ancient Near East. While containing almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against.

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witches and witchcraft, it actually represents a single complex ceremony. The ceremony was performed during a single night and into the following morning at the end of the month Abu (July/August), a time when spirits were thought to move back and forth between the netherworld and the world of the living. This edition of the text contains a detailed introduction as well as an annotated transcription and translation of the text.