Contents

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

PAGE

I.

ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL PRACTICES IN EGYPT

1

II.

MAGICAL STONES OR AMULETS

25

III.

MAGICAL FIGURES

65

IV.

MAGICAL PICTURES AND FORMULÆ, SPELLS, ETC.

104

V.

MAGICAL NAMES

157

VI.

MAGICAL CEREMONIES

182

VII.

DEMONIACAL POSSESSION, DREAMS, GHOSTS, LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS, HOROSCOPES, PROGNOSTICATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND THE WORSHIP OF ANIMALS

206

p. xix

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER

PAGE

II.

THE DESTROYER OF HEARTS

31

THE DECEASED BEING WEIGHED AGAINST HIS HEART

35

THE DECEASED HOLDING A NECKLACE WITH PECTORAL

40

THE MUMMY LYING IN THE FUNERAL CHAMBER

45

THE PRIEST WITH THE "UR HEKAU" INSTRUMENT

60

III.

PTAH-SEKER-AUSAR FIGURE

87

THE FOUR CHILDREN OF HORUS

90

IV.

HATHOR IN THE SYCAMORE TREE

105

THE DECEASED DRINKING WATER FROM A STREAM

106

THE SOUL VISITING THE MUMMIED BODY

113

THE SOUL AND SPIRIT OUTSIDE THE TOMB

114

THE SHADOW AND SOUL OUTSIDE THE TOMB

115

HYPOCEPHALUS OF SHAI-ENEN

117

CIPPUS OF HORUS ("METTERNICHSTELE I.")

149

CIPPUS OF HORUS ("METTERNICHSTELE II.")

153

V.

GREEK AMULETS

178, 179

VI.

THE CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH

199

VII.

THE STELE WITH THE STORY OF THE PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN

209


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