tagged: historiola • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

אײן אנשפראכע געגען עין הרע | An Incantation against the Ayin haRa (1896)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler

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. . . .

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)

Contributor(s):

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

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. . . .

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)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

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

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

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