🔖 Angels of Healing

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אסו ית ארסינואי | Two healing prayers for Arsinoë’s recovery (Amulets 80.AM.55.1 & 80.AM.55.2, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë . . .

Categories: Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags: 3rd century C.E., 41st century A.M., angelology, Angels, Angels of Healing, Aramaic, entering magical territory, קמעות ḳame'ot, Late Antiquity

Contributor(s): Roy Kotansky (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

היסטוריולה של סממית וסידרוס | Historiola of Smamit and Sideros, a reconstruction based on Amulet 15 & Amulet Bowl 12a

A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .

Categories: Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Homes & Community Centers, Theurgy

Tags: amulet bowls, Angelic Protection, Angels, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, cold iron, entering magical territory, epical narrative as ward, historiola, infants, iron in folklore, קמעות ḳame'ot, Late Antiquity, prayers concerning children, prayers for pregnant women, prophylactic

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מה אלו | “Who are these?” — the Origin of the Angels of Healing: Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Semanglof, as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira (ca. late first millennium)

The origin story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira. . . .

Categories: Midrash Aggadah, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags: Angelic Protection, Angels, Angels of Healing, entering magical territory, epical narrative as ward, geonic period, historiola, infants, קמעות ḳame'ot, origin stories, prayers for pregnant women, prophylactic

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מימיני מיכאל | “Mikhael is on my right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Bedtime Shema from the Maḥzor Vitry (ca. 11th c.)

An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .

Categories: Bedtime Shema, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets

Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Angelic Protection, Angels, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, Before Sleep, danger, night, שכינה Shekhinah, sleep

Contributor(s): Dan Levene, Dalia Marx, Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

קמע לשמירה מפני לילית | Apotropaic ward for the protection of pregnant women and infants against Lilith & her minions (CUL MS General 194, Montgomery 1913 Amulet No. 42)

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. . . .

Categories: Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Homes & Community Centers

Tags: Angelic Protection, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, entering magical territory, epical narrative as ward, historiola, infants, קמעות ḳame'ot, prayers concerning children, prayers for pregnant women, prophylactic

Contributor(s): James Alan Montgomery (translation), Richard Gottheil (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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