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and wrongs in men's homes, and send on them hard temper. If any one would be at peace in his home, let him write on seven leaves of laurel the names of the angel that frustrates me, along with these names: lae, led, sons of Sabadth, in the name of the great God let him shut up Katanikotall. Then let him wash the laurel-leaves in water, and sprinkle his house with the water, from within to the outside. And at once I retreat."

83. The twelfth said: " I am called SaphathoraM, and I inspire partisanship in men, and delight in causing them to stumble. If any one will write on paper these names of angels, laed, leald, Idelet, Sabadth, Ithoih, Bae, and having folded it up, wear it round his neck or against his ear, I at once retreat and dissipate the drunken fit."

84. The thirteenth said: " I am called Bobil {sic), and I cause nervous illness by my assaults. If I hear the name of the great ' Adonael, imprison BoihoihM, I at once retreat."

85. The fourteenth said: "I am called KumeatSl, and I inflict shivering fits and torpor. If only I hear the words: 'ZdroSl, imprison Kumentael,' I at once retreat."

86. The fifteenth said: " I am called Roeled. I cause cold and frost and pain in the stomach. Let me only hear the words: '7a a;, bide not, be not warmed, for Solomon is fairer than eleven fathers,' I at retreat."

87. The sixteenth said: " I am called Atrax. I inflict upon men fevers, irremediable and harmful. If you would imprison me, chop up coriander' and smear it on the lips, reciting the following charm: ' The fever which is from dirt. I exorcise the e by the throne of the most high God, retreat from dirt and retreat from the creature fashioned by God.' And at once I retreat."

88. The seventeenth said: " I am called leropael. On the stomach of men I sit, and cause convulsions in the bath and in the road; and wherever I be found, or find a man, I throw him down. But if any one will say to the afflicted into their ear these names, three times over, into the right ear: ' ludarizi, Sabuni, DendS,^ I at once retreat."

89. The eighteenth said: " I am called Buldumich. I separate wife from husband and bring about a grudge between them. If any one write down the names of thy sires, Solomon, on paper and place it in the ante-chamber of his house, I retreat thence. And the legend written shall be as follows: ' The God of Abram, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob commands thee—retire from this house in peace.' And I at once retire."


• Pliny, Nat. Hist. xx. 20, notes the same use of coriander: " Seminis grana tria in tertianis devorari iubent aliqui ante accessionem, vel plura illini fronti." The Testament evidently belongs to Pliny's age.