  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An amulet to protect against dog allergies. Made for a relative with a bad dog allergy who was forced, for work reasons, to host an event featuring many dogs. Print on both sides and keep it in your pocket. Best if used with Zyrtec. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: predatory gaze, incantation, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, Healing, עין הרע predatory gaze (ill will, evil eye), danger, historiola, shamanic praxis, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution This tkhine offers a formula for providing relief to a very ill person, and as such, should only be used as a supplement to recommendations provided by an expert physician or nurse. The source of the tkhine is Tkhine of a Highly Respected Woman, Budapest, 1896; and transcribed from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Birkat Habayit is perhaps the most popular blessing in the Jewish world, appearing as a hanging amulet inside the entrance of many houses of Jews of all streams. I have added niqud to the blessing and I am very grateful to Gabriel Wasserman for his corrections to my vocalization. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A popular prophylactic amulet in the event of an epidemic. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for protection and blessing offered in the name of of Rebbi Yishmael from the Sefer Shem Tov Qatan. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A hymn of praise found in the description of the 7th dome of heaven in Sefer ha-Razim . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, prophylactic, epical narrative as ward, קמעות ḳame'ot, historiola, infants, Angels of Healing, Angelic Protection An apotropaic ward for the protection of women in their pregnancy and of infant children against an attack from Lilith and her minions, containing the story witnessing her oath to the prophet, Eliyahu along with one variation of her many names. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Before Sleep, Angelic Protection, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, apotropaic prayers of protection, danger, night, Angels of Healing, sleep, Angels An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Shimmush Tehillim is a medieval work providing prescriptive theurgical associations for Psalms and verses from Psalms. It has been historically attributed to Rav Hai Gaon (939-1038 CE) but any definitive statement of authorship is lacking. The suggestion that portions of the Shimush Tehillim were authored during the late Geonic period in Iraq isn’t implausible. We also know that Hai Gaon was knowledgeable of Hekhalot writings that should at least be considered part of the same thought world as the Shimmush Tehillim. Writings found in the Shimush Tehillim have been found in manuscripts dating from the 12th century. This digital transcription of Shimush Tehillim derives from Elias Klein Békéscsaba’s 1936 compilation. This edition should not be considered a critical text, as earlier editions certainly exist. Not all of the Psalms are identified as having a particular theurgical use. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A work of Jewish astrology and magic containing recipes specific to the angelic rulers of each day of the week. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A guide to the activities one might engage upon in every hour of the week corresponding with their ruling planet, numinous and cthonic power. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The text and translation of an amulet bowl discussed in “‘Gabriel is on their Right’: Angelic Protection in Jewish Magic and Babylonian Lore” by Dan Levene, Dalia Marx, and Siam Bharyo in Studia Mesopotamica (Band 1: 2014) pp.185-198. The apotropaic ward found in the amulet bowl, SD 12, contains an “angels on all sides” formula similar to that appearing in the Jewish liturgy of the bedtime shema. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Late Antiquity, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, prophylactic, epical narrative as ward, קמעות ḳame'ot, cold iron, infants, iron in folklore, Angelic Protection, historiola, prayers concerning children, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, Angels A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë . . . |