This is a lecture I have been wanting to do for a long time. “Voces magicae” is not an ancient term that was used in…
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Short Video: Making and Use of Ancient Magical Artefacts
This video provides a brief introduction into the making and use of ancient magical artefacts as transmitted in the Egyptian and Greek magical papyris. To…
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Short Video: How to Get Rid of Your Enemies – Ancient Egyptian Voodoo Dolls
In this short video I introduce to you how ancient Egyptians believed to get rid of their enemies: With the help of “voodoo dolls”. To…
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Short Video: What is Demotic?
This video provides a short introduction to “What is Demotic?” To write more posts and make more of my research accessible for free I need…
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Short Video: The Ancient Book “About the Mysteries of the Letters”
In this short video I will introduce to you the ancient book “About the Mystery of the Letters” which explores “the secret messages of the…
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Short Video: Ancient Magic In Everyday Life
Did you know that ancient magic played an important role in people’s lives? That ancient magic was particularly used to solve everyday problems and challenges?…
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Video: Ancient Magic Signs
“Ancient Magic Signs” is a term used in modern scholarship to address a large group of signs that occur in ancient contexts of communication and…
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Video: Ancient Magic Inks
In ancient magic and ritual practice special inks were used to create powerful inscriptions. These inks and their applications are preserved in ancient Egyptian and…
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Behind the Scenes: Reconstructing the artefact in PGM V, 304-369 and Scribal Details
Today I finalized the translation of PGM V, 304-369. It turned out that there are a number of seemingly smaller errors in previous translations but…
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Behind the Scenes: PGM V, 96-172 – Stêlê of Ieu – Some Scribal Details
I’ve been working on this ritual instruction today and look at this: A beautiful correction of the popular divine name “Ablanathanalba”. This name occurs in…
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