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Magic in Ancient Egypt
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by Geraldine Pinch
Sales Rank: 95083
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
Published by: British Museum Press; 2Rev Ed edition December 30, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0714119369
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0714119366
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
The Egyptians were famous in the ancient world for their knowledge of magic. Religion, medicine, technology, and what we would call magic coexisted without apparent conflict, and it was not unusual for magical and "practical" remedies for illness, for example, to be used side by side. Everyone resorted to magic, from the pharaoh guarding his country with elaborate magical rituals to the expectant mother wearing amulets to safeguard her unborn child. In this book, Geraldine Pinch looks at the connections between myth and magic and the deities--such as the goddess Isis, and the protective lion-demon Bes--who had special magical importance. She discusses the techniques of magic, its practitioners, and the surviving magical texts, as well as the objects that were used in magic: figurines, statues, amulets, and wands. She devotes a chapter to medicine and magic and one to magic and the dead. Finally, Dr. Pinch shows how elements and influences from Egyptian magic survived in or were taken up by later societies, right down to our own century.
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Magic in Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Lovely pictures, well-written prose, but organizationally not very exciting. It's written for the non-practitioner (which I am), but lacks the imagination of other books on the same subject.
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